Burial of terrestrial organic matter in marine sediments: A re-assessment

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Burdige, David J ^a  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MARINE POLLUTION; MINERALOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON CYCLE; MARINE SEDIMENT; TERRESTRIAL DEPOSIT;

EID: 33244470013     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GB002368     Document Type: Article

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