Recent sedimentation and organic carbon burial in a shelf sea: The North Sea

Marine Geology

Volumn 144, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 131-146

  De Haas, Henk ^a   Boer, Wim ^a   Van Weering, Tjeerd C E ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accumulation; Holocene; North Sea; Organic carbon; Sediment; Shelf

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031472012     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(97)00082-0     Document Type: Article

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