Triterpenoids and other organic compounds as markers of depositional conditions in the Baltic Sea deep basins during the Holocene

Baltica

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 95-107

  Nytoft, Hans Peter ^a   Larsen, Birger ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ancylus Lake; Anoxia; Baltic Sea; Fernenes; Hopanoids; Litorina Sea; Malabaricatriene; Rock Eval; Sediments; Triterpenoids; Yoldia Sea

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744979973     PISSN: 00673064     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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