Organic acid fluorescence: Applications to speleothem palaeoenvironmental reconstruction

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1087-1101

  McGarry, Siobhán F ^a,b   Baker, Andy ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; ORGANIC ACID; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SPELEOTHEM;

EID: 0033949573     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(99)00087-6     Document Type: Article

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