Recycling of organic matter along a shelf-slope transect across the N.W. European Continental Margin (Goban Spur)

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 77-110

  Lohse, L ^a   Helder, W ^a   Epping, E H G ^a   Balzer, W ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPE;

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CONTINENTAL MARGIN; MINERALIZATION; ORGANIC CARBON; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032409594     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(98)00029-9     Document Type: Article

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