Global carbon export from the terrestrial biosphere controlled by erosion

Valier Galy (), Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink and Timothy Eglinton
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Valier Galy: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Timothy Eglinton: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Nature, 2015, vol. 521, issue 7551, 204-207

Abstract: Particulate organic carbon export from the terrestrial biosphere is primarily controlled by physical erosion, and tectonic and climatic forcing of physical erosion may favour biospheric particulate organic carbon sequestration over silicate weathering as a long-term atmospheric carbon dioxide sink.

Date: 2015
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