GEOTRACES radium isotopes interlaboratory comparison experiment

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods

Volumn 10, Issue JUNE, 2012, Pages 451-463

  Charette, Matthew A ^a   Dulaiova, Henrieta ^a   Gonneea, Meagan E ^a   Henderson, Paul B ^a   Moore, Willard S ^b   Scholten, Jan C ^c   Pham, M K ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

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EID: 84864827572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15415856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lom.2012.10.451     Document Type: Article

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