Fluxes and sources of particulate organic carbon in the Ganga-Brahmaputra river system

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Aucour, Anne Marie ^a   France Lanord, Christian ^b   Pedoja, Kevin ^a   Pierson Wickmann, Anne Catherine ^b   Sheppard, Simon M F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; CLAY; NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; WATERSHEDS;

BEDROCK; CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; FLOODPLAIN; PARTICULATE FLUX; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; RIVER SYSTEM; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; WATERSHED;

ASIA; BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER; EURASIA; GANGES RIVER; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33751058665     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GB002324     Document Type: Article

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