Disentangling marine, soil and plant organic carbon contributions to continental margin sediments: A multi-proxy approach in a 20,000 year sediment record from the Congo deep-sea fan

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 119-132

  Weijers, Johan W H ^a   Schouten, Stefan ^a   Schefuß, Enno ^b   Schneider, Ralph R ^c   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SUBMARINE FAN; YOUNGER DRYAS;

AFRICA; CONGO RIVER; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

GORGONACEA;

EID: 56949102383     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2008.10.016     Document Type: Article

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