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When carbon escaped from the sea

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A record of boron isotopes in fossils of microscopic plankton provides fresh evidence that some ocean regions were a source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere when Earth warmed at the end of the last ice age. See Letter p.219

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Figure 1: Exchange of carbon dioxide between the ocean and atmosphere.

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  1. Katherine A. Allen is in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA.,

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