Organic carbon distribution and isotopic composition in three records from the eastern Mediterranean Sea during the Holocene

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 935-939

  Katsouras, Georgios ^a,b   Gogou, Alexandra ^a   Bouloubassi, Ioanna ^c   Emeis, Kay Christian ^d   Triantaphyllou, Maria ^e   Roussakis, Grigorios ^a   Lykousis, Vasilios ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATES; AEGEAN SEA; DEEP BASIN; DEEP CHLOROPHYLL MAXIMUMS; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA; HOLOCENES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ORGANIC CARBON DISTRIBUTION; ORGANIC MATTER; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

CHLOROPHYLL; PORPHYRINS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

BIOACCUMULATION; CHLOROPHYLL; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ORGANIC CARBON; PYCNOCLINE; SAPROPEL;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST);

ALGAE;

EID: 77953593273     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2010.04.008     Document Type: Article

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