Global cooling forced increase in marine strontium isotopic ratios: Importance of mica weathering and a kinetic approach

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 254, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 303-312

  Li, Gaojun ^a   Chen, Jun ^a   Ji, Junfeng ^a   Liu, Lianwen ^a   Yang, Jiedong ^a   Sheng, Xuefen ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

climate; geochemical cycle; kinetics; marine 87Sr 86Sr; mica

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; GLOBAL COOLING; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; MARINE STRONTIUM; MICA WEATHERING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICA; STRONTIUM; THERMAL EFFECTS; WEATHERING;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; GLOBAL CHANGE; KINETICS; MICA; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; WEATHERING;

EID: 33846680998     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.11.045     Document Type: Article

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