Processes controlling the organic carbon content of open ocean sediments

Paleoceanography

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1988, Pages 621-634

  Emerson, S ^a   Hedges, J I ^a  

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DIAGENESIS; MARINE BALANCE; MASS BALANCE; OCEAN SEDIMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0024199360     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/PA003i005p00621     Document Type: Article

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