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Articles | Volume 19, issue 7
Articles | Volume 19, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1461-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1461-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 19, issue 7
Research article
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21 Jul 2023
Research article |  | 21 Jul 2023

The effect of the Pliocene temperature pattern on silicate weathering and Pliocene–Pleistocene cooling

Pierre Maffre, John C. H. Chiang, and Nicholas L. Swanson-Hysell

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CO2 consumption by chemical alteration of continental silicate rocks regulates atmospheric CO2 and Earth's mean climate. The efficiency of this regulation is affected by the amount of continental precipitation and may have been reduced 3 to 4 million years ago because of different patterns of sea surface temperature. This process could have contributed to the warmer climate of that time.
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