Coupled modeling of global carbon cycle and climate in the Neoproterozoic: links between Rodinia breakup and major glaciations

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 339, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 212-222

  Goddéris, Yves ^a   Donnadieu, Yannick ^a   Dessert, Céline ^b   Dupré, Bernard ^a   Fluteau, Frédéric ^c   François, Louis M ^d   Meert, Joseph ^e   Nédélec, Anne ^a   Ramstein, Gilles ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Climates; Neoproterozoic; Numerical modeling; Rodinia carbon

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; GLACIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PAN AFRICAN OROGENY; PLATE MOTION; PROTEROZOIC; RODINIA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WEATHERING;

EID: 34247100087     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2005.12.002     Document Type: Article

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