Performance evaluation of nitrogen isotope ratio determination in marine and lacustrine sediments: An inter-laboratory comparison

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-12

  Bahlmann, Enno ^a   Bernasconi, Stefano M ^b   Bouillon, Steven ^c   Houtekamer, Marco ^d   Korntheuer, Michael ^c   Langenberg, Frauke ^a   Mayr, Christoph ^e   Metzke, Marc ^a   Middelburg, Jack J ^d   Nagel, Birgit ^f   Struck, Ulrich ^g   Voß, Maren ^h   Emeis, Kay Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^g HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLABORATORY COMPARISON; INVERSE CORRELATION; LABORATORY TEST; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; MARINE SEDIMENTS; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; META ANALYSIS; N VALUE; NITROGEN CONCENTRATIONS; NITROGEN CONTENT; NITROGEN ISOTOPE RATIO; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PEAK HEIGHT; PEAK SHAPES; PEAK WIDTHS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; REPRODUCIBILITIES; ROUND ROBIN TEST; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; STANDARD DEVIATION; TOTAL NITROGEN CONTENT;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STATISTICS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

LABORATORIES;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CORRELATION; DATABASE; INTERLABORATORY COMPARISON; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MARINE SEDIMENT; META-ANALYSIS; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 71649112245     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2009.05.008     Document Type: Article

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