Carbon cycling and snowball Earth

Nature

Volumn 456, Issue 7224, 2008, Pages

  Goddéris, Yves ^a   Donnadieu, Yannick ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; SEA WATER;

ALKALINITY; ASTRONOMY; CARBON CYCLING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GLACIATION; HYPOTHESIS; NEOPROTEROZOIC; NOTE; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEROZOIC; SEA; SNOWBALL EARTH HYPOTHESIS; WEATHERING;

EID: 57749190407     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07653     Document Type: Note

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