Contribution of inherent organic carbon to the bulk δ13C signal in loess deposits from the arid western Chinese Loess Plateau

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1571-1579

  Liu, Weiguo ^a,b   Yang, Hong ^c,d   Ning, Youfeng ^a   An, Zhisheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BRYANT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON (TOC);

ECOSYSTEMS; ISOTOPES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; VEGETATION;

ORGANIC CARBON;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; C3 PLANT; CARBON ISOTOPE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOCLIMATE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI; XINING;

EID: 34547776814     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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