Sources and contribution of terrigenous organic carbon to surface sediments in the Gulf of Mexico

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6648, 1997, Pages 275-278

  Goni, Miguel A ^a   Ruttenberg, Kathleen C ^b   Eglinton, Timothy I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; MARINE SEDIMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTS; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT; TERRESTRIAL SOURCE; TERRIGENOUS INPUT;

ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEDIMENT; VEGETATION;

GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 0030924108     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/38477     Document Type: Article

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