Continental igneous rock composition: A major control of past global chemical weathering
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Continental igneous rock composition: A major control of past global chemical weathering
The composition of igneous rocks in the continental crust has changed throughout Earth's history. However, the impact of these compositional variations on chemical weathering, and by extension on seawater and atmosphere evolution, is largely unknown. We use the strontium isotope ratio in seawater [(87Sr/86Sr)seawater] as a proxy for chemical weathering, and we test the sensitivity of (87Sr/86Sr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science Advances
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2375-2548
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602183