Improving CHN measurements in carbonate-rich marine sediments

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods

Volumn 9, Issue MAY, 2011, Pages 194-203

  Phillips, Stephen C ^a   Johnson, Joel E ^a   Miranda, Eduardo ^a   Disenhof, Corinne ^a  

^a Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

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EID: 79960537494     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15415856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lom.2011.9.194     Document Type: Article

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