Tectonic forcing of late Cenozoic climate
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1476-4687
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Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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Biology
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Medicine
Natural Sciences in General
Physics
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[Auszug] Global cooling in the Cenozoic, which led to the growth of large continental ice sheets in both hemispheres, may have been caused by the uplift of the Tibetan plateau and the positive feedbacks initiated by this event. In particular, tectonically driven increases in chemical weathering may have ...
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Electronic Resource
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