Vertical fluxes and organic composition of settling material from the sewage impacted Buenos Aires coastal area, Argentina

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1941-1952

  Colombo, J C ^a,b   Cappelletti, N ^a,b   Speranza, E ^a   Migoya, M C ^a,c   Lasci, J ^a   Skorupka, C N ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Universidad Provincial del Sudoeste   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOSITION; VERTICAL FLUXES;

COASTAL ZONES; HYDROCARBONS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORGANIC CARBON; PHYTOPLANKTON;

SEWAGE;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COASTAL ZONE; FLUX MEASUREMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEWAGE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARGENTINA; BUENOS AIRES [ARGENTINA]; RIO DE LA PLATA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 35448937992     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

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