Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic compositions of sinking particles in the northeast Japan Sea

Geochemical Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 261-275

  Nakanishi, Takahiro ^a   Minagawa, Masao ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEDIMENT TRAP;

SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 0037656308     PISSN: 00167002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2343/geochemj.37.261     Document Type: Article

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