Modern and Cenozoic records of seawater magnesium from foraminiferal Mg isotopes
Magnesium is an element critically involved in the carbon cycle, because weathering of Ca-Mg silicates removes atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> into rivers, and formation of Ca-Mg carbonates in the oceans removes carbon from the ocean-atmosphere system. Hence the Mg cycle holds the potential t...
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| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2014-09-01
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| Series: | Biogeosciences |
| Online Access: | http://www.biogeosciences.net/11/5155/2014/bg-11-5155-2014.pdf |