Temporal record of lithium in seawater: A tracer for silicate weathering?

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 246, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 393-406

  Hathorne, Ed C ^a   James, Rachael H ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

atmospheric CO2; Li isotopes; paleoceanography; planktonic foraminifera; silicate weathering

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEAWATER CALCIUM CONCENTRATION; SILICATE WEATHERING;

BASALT; CALCIUM; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTS; SILICATES; WEATHERING;

LITHIUM;

CALCIUM; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITHIUM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEAWATER; SILICATE; TEMPORAL RECORD; WATER CHEMISTRY; WEATHERING RATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 33747107536     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.04.020     Document Type: Article

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