The osmium riverine flux and the oceanic mass balance of osmium

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 7-23

  Levasseur, S ^a   Birck, J L ^a   Allegre C J ^a  

^a Lab de Geochimie et Cosmochimie   (France)

Author keywords

Fluvial environment; Isotopes; Mass balance; Osmium; Stream transport; World ocean

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL OCEAN; MASS BALANCE; OSMIUM; RIVER DISCHARGE;

EID: 0033491205     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00259-9     Document Type: Article

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