A 400-year record of black carbon flux in the Xisha archipelago, South China Sea and its implication

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2205-2212

  Liu, Xiaodong ^a   Xu, Liqiang ^a   Sun, Liguang ^a   Liu, Fei ^a   Wang, Yuhong ^b   Yan, Hong ^a   Liu, Yi ^a   Luo, Yuhan ^a   Huang, Jing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Black carbon; Deposition flux; Energy structure; Ornithogenic sediments; Xisha Archipelago

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTHROPOGENIC ORIGIN; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; BLACK CARBON; CONTROL TECHNIQUES; DEPOSITION FLUX; DEPOSITION FLUXES; ENERGY STRUCTURE; ENERGY STRUCTURES; MARGINAL SEAS; SEDIMENT PROFILES; SOUTH CHINA SEA; XISHA ARCHIPELAGO;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON; LEAD; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; POLLUTION CONTROL; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ORGANIC CARBON;

BLACK CARBON; LEAD 210; ORGANIC MATTER;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BLACK CARBON; CARBON FLUX; DEPOSITION; LEAD ISOTOPE; MARGINAL SEA; ORGANIC MATTER; POLLUTION CONTROL;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOMASS ENERGY; CARBON CYCLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PRECIPITATION; SEA; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TREND STUDY; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INDUSTRY; OCEANS AND SEAS; SOOT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 80053131540     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.06.027     Document Type: Article

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