Plate tectonic controls on atmospheric CO2 levels since the Triassic

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4380-4385

  Van Der Meer, Douwe G ^a,b   Zeebe, Richard E ^c   Van Hinsbergen, Douwe J J ^a   Sluijs, Appy ^a   Spakman, Wim ^a,d   Torsvik, Trond H ^d,e,f  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CNOOC LTD   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Geodynamic; Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; STRONTIUM;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; EVOLUTION; GEOLOGICAL TIME; GEOLOGY; LITHOSPHERE; MESOZOIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA; TRIASSIC; VOLCANO;

EID: 84896976949     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1315657111     Document Type: Article

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