Remineralization of organic carbon in eastern Canadian continental margin sediments

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 47, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 699-731

  Silverberg, Norman ^a   Sundby, Bjørn ^b   Mucci, Alfonso ^c   Zhong, Shaojun ^d   Arakaki, Takeshi ^e   Hall, Per ^f   Landén, Angela ^f   Tengberg, Anders ^f  

^a Ctro Interdisciplinario Cie M   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CARBON CYCLE; DIFFUSION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MINERALIZATION; NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEDIMENT; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

MARINE SEDIMENT; MINERALIZATION; ORGANIC CARBON; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034174517     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(99)00123-X     Document Type: Article

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