Modern organic carbon burial fluxes, recent sedimentation rates, and particle mixing rates from the upper continental slope near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina (USA)

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 4645-4665

  Alperin, Marc J ^a   Suayah, Ismail B ^a   Benninger, Larry K ^a   Martens, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SEDIMENTATION;

ORGANIC CARBON BURIAL FLUXES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEPOCENTER; DETRITUS; MIXING RATIO; ORGANIC CARBON; SEDIMENTATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036397927     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(02)00133-9     Document Type: Article

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