Silicate weathering machine at work: Rock magnetic data from the late Paleocene-early Eocene Cicogna section, Italy

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Dallanave, Edoardo ^a,b   Tauxe, Lisa ^c   Muttoni, Giovanni ^b,d   Rio, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Alpine Laboratory of Paleomagnetism   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eocene; Global warming; Hematite; Maghemite; Paleocene; Silicate weathering

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); GEOMAGNETISM; GLOBAL WARMING; HEMATITE; IRON ORES; ISOTOPES; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC STORAGE; ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; SOIL MECHANICS; STATE FEEDBACK;

BENTHIC OXYGEN ISOTOPE; CLIMATE FORCINGS; EARTH'S SURFACE; EOCENE; GLOBAL CLIMATES; HUMID CLIMATES; MAGHEMITES; MAGNETIC DATA; MAGNETIC PHASIS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK MECHANISM; OXIDATION STATE; PALEOCENE; PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUMS; ROCK MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; SILICATE ROCKS; SILICATE WEATHERING; STATISTICAL CORRELATION; TEMPORAL COUPLING;

WEATHERING;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; GLOBAL WARMING; HEMATITE; HYPSITHERMAL; MAGHEMITE; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOMAGNETISM; ROCK PROPERTY; SILICATE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

BELLUNO; ITALY; VENETO;

EID: 80052228913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003142     Document Type: Article

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