Plate tectonic trigger of changes in pCO2 and climate in the Oxfordian (Late Jurassic): Carbon isotope and modeling evidence

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 258, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 44-60

  Louis Schmid, Beat ^a   Rais, Pauline ^a   Schaeffer, Philippe ^b   Bernasconi, Stefano M ^a   Weissert, Helmut ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

carbon cycle; carbon isotopes; climate; model simulation; pCO2

Indexed keywords

CARBON PARTITIONING; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

TECTONICS;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANIC CURRENT; ORGANIC MATTER; OXFORDIAN; SIMULATION;

EID: 34249057241     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.03.014     Document Type: Article

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