Geochemical and microbiological fingerprinting of airborne dust that fell in Canberra, Australia, in October 2002

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  De Deckker, Patrick ^a   Abed, Raeid M M ^b,c   De Beer, Dirk ^b   Hinrichs, Kai Uwe ^d   O'Loingsigh, Tadhg ^e   Schefuß, Enno ^d   Stuut, Jan Berend W ^d   Tapper, Nigel J ^e   Van Der Kaars, Sander ^f  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

16SrRNA cloning; Aeolian dust; Biogeochemistry; Polymerase chain reaction; Trace element geochemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249084919     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GC002091     Document Type: Article

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