Competition between erosion and reaction kinetics in controlling silicate-weathering rates
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a Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-2115, USA b Department of Environmental Earth System Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-2115, USA c Department of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA d Geological Institute, Eldgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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تاریخ انتشار 2010