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Anthropogenically enhanced fluxes of water and carbon from the Mississippi River

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2007

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Raymond, Peter A., Oh, Neung-Hwan, Turner, REugene, and Broussard, Whitney, 2007, Anthropogenically enhanced fluxes of water and carbon from the Mississippi River: v. 451, 449 p.

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The water and dissolved inorganic carbon exported by rivers are important net fluxes that connect terrestrial and oceanic water and carbon reservoirs. For most rivers, the majority of dissolved inorganic carbon is in the form of bicarbonate. The riverine bicarbonate flux originates mainly from the dissolution of rock minerals by soil water carbon dioxide, a process called chemical weathering, which controls the buffering capacity and mineral content of receiving streams and rivers. Here we introduce an unprecedented high-temporal-resolution, 100-year data set from the Mississippi River and couple it with sub-watershed and precipitation data to reveal that the large increase in bicarbonate flux that has occurred over the past 50 years [...]

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