A middle Eocene carbon cycle conundrum

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 429-434

  Sluijs, Appy ^a   Zeebe, Richard E ^b   Bijl, Peter K ^a   Bohaty, Steven M ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CARBON CYCLE; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DISSOLUTION; EOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHELF SEDIMENT; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84878743033     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1807     Document Type: Article

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