Sedimentary organic matter record of recent environmental changes in the St. Marys River ecosystem, Michigan-Ontario border

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 133-146

  Tenzer, Gabrielle E ^a   Meyers, Philip A ^a   Robbins, John A ^b   Eadie, Brian J ^b   Morehead, Nancy R ^b   Lansing, Margaret B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NOAA GREAT LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

13C; 15N; Anthropogenic impacts; C N ratios; Great Lakes; Lake sediments; N alkane distributions; Organic carbon mass accumulation rates; Petroleum residues

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS; ORGANIC CARBON MASS ACCUMULATION RATES;

CARBON; CRUDE PETROLEUM; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; EFFLUENTS; FATTY ACIDS; LAKES; NITROGEN; PARAFFINS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; WATER POLLUTION;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY;

ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; ORGANIC MATTER; RIVER;

CANADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033058941     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0146-6380(98)00209-5     Document Type: Article

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