Towards a deeper understanding of how carbonate isotopes (14C, 13C, 18O) reflect environmental changes: A study with recent 210Pb-dated sediments of the plitvice lakes, Croatia

Radiocarbon

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 233-253

  Horvatinčić, Nada ^a,b   Barešić, Jadranka ^a   Babinka, Slavica ^c   Obelić, Bogomil ^a   Bronić, Ines Krajcar ^a   Vreča, Polona ^d   Suckow, Axel ^c  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^d INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; AUTOCHTHON; CALCITE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; CHRONOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LEAD ISOTOPE; LEAD-LEAD DATING; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

CROATIA; PLITVICE LAKES NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 77956501622     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200033543     Document Type: Article

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