Numerical simulation of atmospheric and oceanic biogeochemical cycles to an episodic CO2 release event: Implications for the cause of mid-Cretaceous Ocean Anoxic Event-1a

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 286, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 316-323

  Misumi, Kazuhiro ^a,b   Yamanaka, Yasuhiro ^a   Tajika, Eiichi ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

mid Cretaceous; numerical simulation; Ocean Anoxic Event; Ontong Java Plateau

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC EVENTS; ATMOSPHERIC CO; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; DEEP WATER; MID-CRETACEOUS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OCEAN ANOXIC EVENT; ONTONG JAVA PLATEAU; PHOSPHATE CONCENTRATION; POSITIVE EXCURSION; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; REFERENCE STATE; TIME-SCALES; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; ECOLOGY; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; EROSION; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; WEATHERING;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; CRETACEOUS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ONTONG JAVA PLATEAU; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 69549114312     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.06.045     Document Type: Article

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