Determining the composition of late quaternary marine sediments from NUV, VIS, and NIR diffuse reflectance spectra

Marine Geology

Volumn 134, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 31-55

  Balsam, William L ^a   Deaton, Bobby C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORES; MARINE SEDIMENT; QUATERNARY; QUATERNARY SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT COMPOSITION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0030222837     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0025-3227(96)00037-0     Document Type: Article

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