Mountain building-enhanced continental weathering and organic carbon burial as major causes for climatic cooling at the Frasnian-Famennian boundary (c. 376 Ma)?

Terra Nova

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 25-34

  Averbuch, Olivier ^a   Tribovillard, N ^a   Devleeschouwer, X ^b   Riquier, L ^a   Mistiaen, B ^c   van Vliet Lanoe, B ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b Service Geologique de Belgique   (Belgium)

^c ISA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DEVONIAN; FRASNIAN-FAMENNIAN BOUNDARY; GLACIATION; GONDWANA; ORGANIC CARBON; OROGENY; PALEOCLIMATE; WEATHERING;

EID: 15044363292     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2004.00580.x     Document Type: Article

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