Loading and fate of particulate organic carbon from the Himalaya to the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1767-1787

  Galy, Valier ^a   France Lanord, Christian ^a   Lartiges, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELTA; DEPOSITION; EROSION; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MINERALOGY; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS;

EID: 40949120920     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2008.01.027     Document Type: Article

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