The dynamic of organic carbon in south cameroon: Fluxes in a tropical river system and a lake system as a varying sink on a glacial-interglacial time scale

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 16-17, Issue , 1998, Pages 53-74

  Giresse, P ^a   Maley, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Flux evaluation; Glacial interglacial timescale; Organic carbon

Indexed keywords

BAY; BIODEGRADATION; ESTUARINE; HOLOCENE; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERTROPICAL ECOSYSTEM; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; ORGANIC CARBON; RIVER; SEDIMENTATION; TIME SCALE;

CARBON FLUX; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; ORGANIC CARBON; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; RIVER SYSTEM; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

CAMEROON;

EID: 0031809643     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(98)00007-1     Document Type: Article

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