Recycling of organic matter in Antarctic sediments: A transect through the Polar Front in the Southern Ocean (Indian Sector)

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 420-432

  Rabouille, Christophe ^a   Gaillard, Jean Francois ^b   Relexans, Jean Claude ^a   Tréguer, Paul ^c   Vincendeau, Marie Anne ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; MARINE SEDIMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; POREWATER;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0031812034     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.3.0420     Document Type: Article

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