The late Neogene Sr-87/Sr-86 record of lowland Himalayan rivers

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Quade, J
Roe, L
DeCelles, PG
Ojha, TP
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[1] Department of Geosciences, Desert Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson
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10.1126/science.276.5320.1828
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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Fossil shells and paleosol carbonate from ancestral Himalayan river deposits provide a Sr-87/Sr-86 record of lowland Himalayan river water during the late Neogene. Reconstructed Sr-87/Sr-86 river values increased sharply in the late Miocene, probably marking the beginning of exhumation of high Sr-87/Sr-86 metalimestones, more in the central than in the western Himalayas. These results imply that the marine Sr-87/Sr-86 record may not be a proxy for silicate weathering or consumption of atmospheric CO2 resulting from that weathering.
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