Elevated weathering rates in the rocky mountains during the early eocene climatic optimum

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 370-374

  Elliot Smith, M ^a   Carroll, Alan R ^a   Mueller, Erich R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 65349109955     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo205     Document Type: Article

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