Latitudinal change of normal paraffin composition in the northwest Pacific sediments

Marine Geology

Volumn 196, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 157-170

  Yamamoto, Koshi ^a   Kurata, Yuriko ^a   Takayanagi, Yukio ^a   Nishimura, Akira ^b   Mimura, Koichi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon preference index; Marine sediments; N paraffin; Pacific Ocean

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; COMPOSITION; MARINE APPLICATIONS; SEDIMENTS;

CARBON PREFERENCE INDEX (CPI);

PARAFFINS;

CARBON; MARINE SEDIMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

(NORTHWEST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0038035586     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(03)00068-9     Document Type: Article

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