Contribution of "Old" carbon from natural marine hydrocarbon seeps to sedimentary and dissolved organic carbon pools in the Gulf of Mexico

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 17, 2001, Pages 3313-3316

  Wang, Xu Chen ^a   Chen, Robert F ^a   Whelan, Jean ^b   Eglinton, Lorraine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; HYDROCARBONS; ISOTOPES; SEDIMENTS;

TOTAL LIPID FRACTIONS;

GEOPHYSICS;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; LIPID; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OIL SEEP; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 0035446667     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013430     Document Type: Article

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