Oceanic calcium changes from enhanced weathering during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum: No effect on calcium-based proxies

Paleoceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Komar, N ^a   Zeebe, R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DISSOLUTION; HUMIDITY; HYPSITHERMAL; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEAFLOOR; SEAWATER;

EID: 80051754882     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA001979     Document Type: Article

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