Benthic fluxes and porewater concentration profiles of dissolved organic carbon in sediments from the North Carolina continental slope

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 63, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 427-448

  Alperin, Marc J ^a   Martens, Christopher S ^a   Albert, Daniel B ^a   Suayah, Ismail B ^b   Benninger, Larry K ^b   Blair, Neal E ^c   Jahnke, Richard A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c Skidaway Institute of Oceanography ^*  (United States)

^d SKIDAWAY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; MARINE SEDIMENT; POREWATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032875837     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(99)00032-0     Document Type: Article

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