Quantifying the abundance and stable isotope composition of pyrogenic carbon using hydrogen pyrolysis

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 2690-2696

  Wurster, Christopher M ^a   Lloyd, Jon ^a,b   Goodrick, Iain ^a   Saiz, Gustavo ^a,c   Bird, Michael I ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC CARBON; SEDIMENTS; WOOD;

BIOMASS-BURNING; CARBON BUDGETS; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; MATRIX; P-CYCLES; P-VALUES; SOIL AND SEDIMENT; STABLE ISOTOPES; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; VEGETATION CHANGE;

PYROLYSIS;

EID: 84868384150     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6397     Document Type: Article

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