Carbon mineralization and oxygen dynamics in sediments with deep oxygen penetration, Lake Superior

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1634-1650

  Li, Jiying ^a   Crowe, Sean A ^b   Miklesh, David ^a   Kistner, Matthew ^a   Canfield, Donald E ^b   Katsev, Sergei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; CARBON; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; MINERALIZATION; OXYGEN; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE SUPERIOR;

EID: 84867278261     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2012.57.6.1634     Document Type: Article

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