The Phanerozoic Carbon Cycle
Subtitle: CO2 and O2
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: July 23, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780195173338
First sentence: The cycle of carbon is essential to the maintenance of life, to climate, and to the composition of the atmosphere and oceans.
Description: "In The Phanerozoic Carbon Cycle, Robert Berner shows how carbon cycle models can be used to calculate levels of atmospheric CO[subscript 2] and O[subscript 2] over Phanerozoic time (the past 550 million years) and how results compare with independent methods. His analysis has implications for such disparate subjects as the evolution of land plants, the presence of giant ancient insects, the role of tectonics in paleoclimate, and the current debate over global warming and greenhouse gases."--BOOK JACKET.