Chemistry of surface sediment along a north-south transect across the equator in the Central Indian Basin: an assessment of biogenic and detrital influences on elemental burial on the seafloor

Chemical Geology

Volumn 147, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 217-232

  Banakar, V K ^a   Parthiban, G ^a   Pattan, J N ^a   Jauhari, P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARINE SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTARY GEOCHEMISTRY;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0032565527     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(98)00015-1     Document Type: Article

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