Early Cenozoic decoupling of the global carbon and sulfur cycles

Paleoceanography

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Kurtz, A C ^a   Kump, L R ^b   Arthur, M A ^b   Zachos, J C ^c   Paytan, A ^d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon burial; Paleogene; sulfur

Indexed keywords

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CARBON CYCLE; CENOZOIC; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; SULFUR CYCLE;

EID: 1642359260     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003PA000908     Document Type: Article

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