Subboreal aridity and scytonemin in the Holocene Black Sea

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue , 2012, Pages 47-55

  Fulton, James M ^a   Arthur, Michael A ^a   Freeman, Katherine H ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC CYANOBACTERIA; BLACK SEA; BLACK SHALES; CYANOBACTERIAL POPULATION; DEEP SEA; DESERT SOILS; EXTRACELLULAR POLYSACCHARIDES; GROWTH CONDITIONS; HOLOCENES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ULTRA-VIOLET;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

DEGRADATION;

ARIDITY; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMARKER; CARBON ISOTOPE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DEEP SEA; GROWTH; HOLOCENE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PIGMENT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLYSACCHARIDE; SOIL CRUST; SOIL EROSION; TOLERANCE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BLACK SEA;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84862225831     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.05.008     Document Type: Article

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