The sequestration sink of soot black carbon in the Northern European Shelf sediments

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Sánchez García, Laura ^a,b   Cato, Ingemar ^c,d   Gustafsson, Örjan ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Catalan Institute of Climate Science   (Spain)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK CARBON; CARBON CYCLES; CLAY SEDIMENTS; COASTAL SEDIMENTS; COASTAL WATERS; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; EUROPEAN SHELF; INTER QUARTILE RANGES; MASS ACCUMULATIONS; PAN-ARCTIC; RIVER DISCHARGE; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CARBON; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); ESTIMATION; ORGANIC CARBON; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOOT; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

DUST;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; CHRONOLOGY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; GEOACCUMULATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MARINE SEDIMENT; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SIDESCAN SONAR; SOOT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

EUROPE; SWEDEN;

EID: 84855598696     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GB003956     Document Type: Article

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