Snowball Earth prevention by dissolved organic carbon remineralization

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7171, 2007, Pages 813-818

  Peltier, W Richard ^a   Liu, Yonggang ^a   Crowley, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN;

CAMBRIAN; CARBON CYCLE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GLACIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEROZOIC; REMINERALIZATION; SNOW; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON MINERALIZATION; CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NEOPROTEROZOIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 36849060239     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06354     Document Type: Article

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