Evidence of old carbon in the deep water column of the Panama Basin from natural radiocarbon measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1733-1736

  Druffel, Ellen R M ^a   Griffin, Sheila ^a   Honjo, Susumu ^b   Manganini, Steven J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENTS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; CARBON; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); RADIOISOTOPES;

C VALUES; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEEP WATER; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; NATURAL RADIOCARBON MEASUREMENTS; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTERS;

ORGANIC CARBON; OCEANOGRAPHY;

RADIOCARBON ANALYSIS;

CARBON; MARINE SEDIMENT; RADIOCARBON; SEAWATER; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

PACIFIC, PANAMA BASIN;

EID: 0032523579     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01157     Document Type: Article

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