Marine sediment components: identification and dispersal assessed by diffuse reflectance spectrophotometry

International Journal of Environment and Health

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 403-426

  Balsam, William ^a   Damuth, John E ^a   Deaton, Bobby ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Argentine Basin; Atlantic Ocean; atmospheric dust; Diffuse Reflectance Spectrophotometry; DRS; Gulf of Mexico; iron oxides; marine sediment dispersal; marine sediment distributions; Ocean Drilling Programme; ODP; paleoclimatology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950516830     PISSN: 17434955     EISSN: 17434963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJENVH.2007.017869     Document Type: Article

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