Large-amplitude variations in carbon cycling and terrestrial weathering during the latest Paleocene and earliest Eocene: The record at Mead Stream, New Zealand

Journal of Geology

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 487-505

  Slotnick, Benjamin S ^a   Dickens, Gerald R ^a,b   Nicolo, Micah J ^a,c   Hollis, Christopher J ^d   Crampton, James S ^d   Zachos, James C ^e   Sluijs, Appy ^f  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Global Solutions Upstream Shell International Exploration and Production   (United States)

^d GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE VARIATION; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HYPSITHERMAL; LITHOLOGY; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEDIMENTATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHERING;

MARLBOROUGH; MEAD STREAM; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 84867624679     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: 15375269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/666743     Document Type: Article

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