Mineralogical controls on soil black carbon preservation

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Cusack, Daniela F ^a   Chadwick, Oliver A ^a   Hockaday, William C ^b   Vitousek, Peter M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK CARBON; CLIMATE GRADIENTS; DIRECT LINKS; LONG-TERM STORAGE; PHYSICAL PROTECTION; RADIOCARBON AGE; RADIOCARBON DATING; REACTIVE MINERALS; SHORT-RANGE ORDER; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; TEMPERATE GRASSLANDS;

MINERALS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SORPTION;

SOILS;

BLACK CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GRASSLAND; LANDSCAPE; MINERAL; MINERALOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SORPTION; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84861351522     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GB004109     Document Type: Article

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