Preservation of black carbon in the shelf sediments of the East China Sea

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 52, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 3155-3161

  Wang, Xuchen ^a,b   Li, Anchun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Black carbon; Carbon cycle; Changjiang River estuary; East China Sea; Marine sediment

Indexed keywords

EID: 36448937464     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-007-0452-1     Document Type: Article

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