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First plants cooled the Ordovician

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 01 Feb 2012Embargo end date: 01 Jan 2012 Switzerland, United Kingdom, United Kingdom English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature Geoscience, volume 5, pages 86-89 (issn: 1752-0894, eissn: 1752-0908,

Authors: Lenton, T; Lenton, T; Crouch, M; Crouch, M; Johnson, M; Pires, N; Pires, N; +2 Authors

doi: 10.1038/ngeo1390 , 10.5167/uzh-74117

First plants cooled the Ordovician

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Abstract

The Late Ordovician period, ending 444 million years ago, was marked by the onset of glaciations. The expansion of non-vascular land plants accelerated chemical weathering and may have drawn down enough atmospheric carbon dioxide to trigger the growth of ice sheets.

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Switzerland, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

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University of Oxford
United Kingdom
University of Zurich
Switzerland
University of Exeter
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Keywords

10126 Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 1900 General Earth and Planetary Sciences, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, 580 Plants (Botany), 10211 Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center

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