Biological and environmental changes in Lake Baikal during the late Quaternary inferred from carbon, nitrogen and sulfur isotopes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 222, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 285-299

  Watanabe, T ^a   Naraoka, H ^a   Nishimura, M ^b   Kawai, T ^c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

C, N, S stable isotopes; Lake Baikal; Sulfate reduction; Sulfide accumulation

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; QUATERNARY; STABLE ISOTOPE;

EURASIA; LAKE BAIKAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 2342451368     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.02.009     Document Type: Article

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