Extreme weathering/erosion during the Miocene Climatic Optimum: Evidence from sediment record in the South China Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 2009, Pages

  Wan, Shiming ^a,b   Kürschner, Wolfram M ^c   Clift, Peter D ^d   Li, Anchun ^a   Li, Tiegang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CO; CENOZOIC; CHEMICAL INDEX OF ALTERATIONS; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLOSE COUPLING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; EUROPEAN ALPS; EVENT-TRIGGERED; GLOBAL COOLING; HIGH RATE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ICE SHEET; LATE CENOZOIC; MASS ACCUMULATION RATES; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MIOCENE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; RAPID SEDIMENTATION; REGIONAL TECTONICS; SILICATE WEATHERING; SOUTH CHINA SEA; TEST CASE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON MONOXIDE; EARTH (PLANET); EROSION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; ORGANIC CARBON; PATIENT MONITORING; SEDIMENTS; SILICATES; WEATHERING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ACCUMULATION RATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSION RATE; ICE SHEET; MIOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; WEATHERING PROFILE;

AFRICA; ALPS; ANGOLA; ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 72049100376     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040279     Document Type: Article

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