Carbon fluxes, pCO2 and substrate weathering in a large northern river basin, Canada: Carbon isotope perspectives

Chemical Geology

Volumn 159, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 61-86

  Telmer, Kevin ^a   Veizer, Jan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon; Isotope; Ottawa; pCO2; River; Watershed; Weathering

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; RIVER WATER; WATER CHEMISTRY; WEATHERING;

CANADA;

EID: 0032733016     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(99)00034-0     Document Type: Article

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