Linkage - International - Grant ID: LX0212015

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LX0212015

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Weathering History and Cenozoic Landscape Evolution in Northern Queensland and New Caledonia. Rates of rock weathering impose a major control on the CO2 global budget. Increased weathering rates consume atmospheric CO2, possibly resulting in cooler climates. We intend to determine rock weathering rates on similar lithologies currently placed on equatorial positions, Northeastern Australia and New Caledonia, but possibly differing in climatic history. Geochronology of continental weathering profiles in the areas will permit correlating known paleoclimatic cycles, derived from the isotopic composition of ocean floor sediments, with the variation in continental weathering rates. This comparison will test current models proposing that cooling of Cenozoic climates results from increase rates of rock weathering.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2002

End Date: 31-12-2003

Funding Scheme: Linkage - International

Funding Amount: $62,470.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Geomorphology | Geochronology And Isotope Geochemistry | Climatology (Incl. Palaeoclimatology) | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Climate change |

Other Keywords

Climate change | Climatology (Incl. Palaeoclimatology) | Geochronology And Isotope Geochemistry | Geomorphology | Iron Ores (I.E. Ferrous Ores) | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience

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