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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-359-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-359-2022
Ideas and perspectives
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24 Jan 2022
Ideas and perspectives |  | 24 Jan 2022

Ideas and perspectives: Emerging contours of a dynamic exogenous kerogen cycle

Thomas M. Blattmann

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This work enunciates the possibility of kerogen oxidation contributing to atmospheric CO2 increase in the wake of glacial episodes. This hypothesis is substantiated by several lines of independent evidence synthesized in this contribution. The author hypothesizes that the deglaciation of kerogen-rich lithologies in western Canada contributed to the characteristic deglacial increase in atmospheric CO2.
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