Chemical evolution of dissolved inorganic carbon species flowing in thin water films and its implications for (rapid) degassing of CO2 during speleothem growth

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 107, Issue , 2013, Pages 242-251

  Hansen, Maximilian ^a   Dreybrodt, Wolfgang ^b   Scholz, Denis ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DEGASSING; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SPELEOTHEM; STABLE ISOTOPE; STALAGMITE;

EID: 84873901372     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2013.01.006     Document Type: Article

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