Carbon sedimentation at Lago Grande de Curuai, a floodplain lake in the low Amazon region: Insights into sedimentation rates

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 214, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 27-40

  Moreira Turcq, P ^a   Jouanneau, J M ^b   Turcq, B ^a   Seyler, P ^c   Weber, O ^b   Guyot, J L ^c  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Accumulation rate; Amazon; Floodplains; Flux of organic carbon; Settling particles

Indexed keywords

CARBON FLUX; FLOODPLAIN; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

AMAZON RIVER; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 6044276040     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2004.06.013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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