A comparison of different methods for determining the organic and inorganic carbon content of lake sediment from two lakes on the Tibetan Plateau

Quaternary International

Volumn 250, Issue , 2012, Pages 49-54

  Wang, Junbo ^a   Zhu, Liping ^a   Wang, Yong ^a   Gao, Shaopeng ^a   Daut, Gerhard ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; DATA SET; INORGANIC CARBON; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; OXIDATION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84856231218     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.06.030     Document Type: Article

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