Organic sources and carbon sequestration in Holocene shelf sediments from the western Arctic Ocean

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1169-1179

  Faux, Jessica F ^a   Belicka, Laura L ^a,b   Rodger Harvey, H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Chukchi Sea; HOTRAX; Lipids; Sediments

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; BIOMARKER; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOMINANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FATTY ACID; HOLOCENE; ISOPRENOID; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SATURATION; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; STEROL; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CHUKCHI SEA;

EID: 79958169774     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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