Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth's changing climate during the last 540 million years

CR Scotese, H Song, BJW Mills, DG van der Meer - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
This study provides a comprehensive and quantitative estimate of how global temperatures
have changed during the last 540 million years. It combines paleotemperature …

Atmospheric CO2 over the Past 66 Million Years from Marine Archives

JWB Rae, YG Zhang, X Liu, GL Foster… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Throughout Earth's history, CO2 is thought to have exerted a fundamental control on
environmental change. Here we review and revise CO2 reconstructions from boron isotopes …

The ocean carbon cycle

T DeVries - Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The ocean holds vast quantities of carbon that it continually exchanges with the atmosphere
through the air-sea interface. Because of its enormous size and relatively rapid exchange of …

High‐resolution data sets for global carbonate and silicate rock weathering carbon sinks and their change trends

L Xiong, X Bai, C Zhao, Y Li, Q Tan, G Luo, L Wu… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Carbonate rock weathering Carbon Sink (CCS) and Silicate rock weathering
Carbon Sink (SCS) play a significant role in the carbon cycle and global climate change …

Evolution of Earth's tectonic carbon conveyor belt

RD Müller, B Mather, A Dutkiewicz, T Keller, A Merdith… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Concealed deep beneath the oceans is a carbon conveyor belt, propelled by plate tectonics.
Our understanding of its modern functioning is underpinned by direct observations, but its …

Mountains, erosion and the carbon cycle

RG Hilton, AJ West - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2020 - nature.com
Mountain building results in high erosion rates and the interaction of rocks with the
atmosphere, water and life. Carbon transfers that result from increased erosion could control …

Global CO2 Consumption by Silicate Rock Chemical Weathering: Its Past and Future

S Zhang, X Bai, C Zhao, Q Tan, G Luo, J Wang… - Earth's …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Silicate rock weathering maintains a stable and long‐term absorption of CO2. However, the
magnitude, spatial pattern, and evolution characteristics of global silicate rock weathering …

Global plate boundary evolution and kinematics since the late Paleozoic

KJ Matthews, KT Maloney, S Zahirovic… - Global and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Many aspects of deep-time Earth System models, including mantle convection,
paleoclimatology, paleobiogeography and the deep Earth carbon cycle, require high …

[HTML][HTML] Reviews and syntheses: The biogeochemical cycle of silicon in the modern ocean

PJ Tréguer, JN Sutton, M Brzezinski… - …, 2021 - bg.copernicus.org
The element silicon (Si) is required for the growth of silicified organisms in marine
environments, such as diatoms. These organisms consume vast amounts of Si together with …

Substantial global carbon uptake by cement carbonation

F Xi, SJ Davis, P Ciais, D Crawford-Brown, D Guan… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Calcination of carbonate rocks during the manufacture of cement produced 5% of global
CO2 emissions from all industrial process and fossil-fuel combustion in 2013,. Considerable …