Fibrillar polysaccharides in marine macromolecular organic matter as imaged by atomic force microscopy and transmission electron microscopy

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 896-908

  Santschi, Peter H ^a,b   Balnois, Eric ^a   Wilkinson, Kevin J ^a   Zhang, Jingwu ^a   Buffle, Jacques ^a   Guo, Laodong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COLLOID; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; MIDDLE ATLANTIC BIGHT;

EID: 0031668869     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.5.0896     Document Type: Article

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