Aliphatic hydrocarbon concentrations in short sediment cores from the southern Okinawa Trough: Implications for lipid deposition in a complex environment

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 2066-2078

  Jeng, Woei Lih ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROCARBON; LIPID; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

EAST CHINA SEA; OKINAWA TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EMBRYOPHYTA; HUMULUS;

EID: 34547768684     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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