Characteristics of soil carbon buried for 3300 years in a bronze age burial mound

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1292-1298

  Thomsen, Ingrid K ^a   Kruse, Tove ^a,b   Bruun, Sander ^b   Kristiansen, Søren M ^a   Knicker, Heike ^c   Petersen, Søren O ^a   Jensen, Lars S ^b   Holst, Mads K ^d   Christensen, Bent T ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG-TERM RETENTION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL SAMPLES;

SOILS;

BRONZE AGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GAS EXCHANGE; PALEOSOL; POLARIZATION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL HORIZON; WATER AVAILABILITY;

EID: 51149097382     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2007.0348     Document Type: Article

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