Organic matter preservation on continental slopes: importance of mineralogy and surface area

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1329-1345

  Ransom, Barbara ^a   Kim, Dongseon ^a   Kastner, Miriam ^a   Wainwright, Sonya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MINERAL SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ORGANIC MATTER;

EID: 0031687009     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(98)00050-7     Document Type: Article

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