Timing of Neoproterozoic glaciations linked to transport-limited global weathering

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 861-864

  Mills, Benjamin ^a   Watson, Andrew J ^a   Goldblatt, Colin ^b   Boyle, Richard ^a,c   Lenton, Timothy M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; DEGLACIATION; GLACIAL TRANSPORT; GLACIATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INTERGLACIAL; LIMITING FACTOR; OXYGEN; PROTEROZOIC; SILICATE; SNOW; STABILIZATION; TIMESCALE; WEATHERING RATE;

EID: 82455198910     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1305     Document Type: Article

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