Geomorphologic controls on the age of particulate organic carbon from small mountainous and upland rivers

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Leithold, Elana L ^a   Blair, Neal E ^a   Perkey, David W ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SEDIMENTS; TECTONICS;

CARBON ISOTOPE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GULLY EROSION; LANDSLIDE; MASS BALANCE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; RIVER DISCHARGE; TECTONIC SETTING;

AUSTRALASIA; CALIFORNIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247575091     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GB002677     Document Type: Article

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