Reduction of equatorial land area and silicate weathering consumption of CO2 with transformation from Pangea B to Pangea A in the Permian and the ultimate demise of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age

Dennis V Kent, Rutgers University New Brunswick, EPS, New Brunswick, NJ, United States; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Giovanni Muttoni, University of Milan, Department of Earth Sciences 'Ardito Desio', Milan, Italy