The biogeochemical evolution of the Coorong during the mid- to late Holocene: An elemental, isotopic and biomarker perspective

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 96-110

  McKirdy, David M ^a   Thorpe, Carly S ^a   Haynes, Deborah E ^a   Grice, Kliti ^b   Krull, Evelyn S ^c   Halverson, Galen P ^a   Webster, Lynn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS; AQUATIC MACROPHYTES; CHLOROPHYTES; COASTAL WETLANDS; DODECANE; EPIPHYTIC DIATOMS; EUBACTERIA; HIGHLY BRANCHED ISOPRENOID; HYPERSALINE; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; LATE HOLOCENE; N-ALKANES; NARROW CHANNEL; NMR SPECTRUM; ORGANIC MATTER; PALAEO-SALINITY; SEAGRASSES; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; SURFACE RUNOFFS; TOTAL NITROGEN; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TRIMETHYL; WATERBODIES;

ALGAE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMARKERS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LAKES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC CARBON; SALINE WATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WETLANDS;

PARAFFINS;

ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON; BIOMARKER; COASTAL WETLAND; DENITRIFICATION; DIAGENESIS; EPIPHYTE; HOLOCENE; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOSALINITY; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

AUSTRALIA; COORONG; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; RUPPIA MEGACARPA; STREPTOPHYTA;

EID: 74149092104     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2009.07.010     Document Type: Article

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