Carbon sequestration activated by a volcanic CO 2 pulse during Ocean Anoxic Event 2

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 205-208

  Barclay, Richard S ^a   McElwain, Jennifer C ^b   Sageman, Bradley B ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CRETACEOUS; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION; VOLCANISM;

EID: 77950547382     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo757     Document Type: Article

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