Organic matter sources for tidal marsh sediment over the past two millennia in the Minho River estuary (NW Iberian Peninsula)

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 53, Issue , 2012, Pages 16-24

  De la Rosa, J M ^a   Araujo M F ^b   Gonzalez Perez J A ^a   Gonzalez Vila F J ^a   Soares, A M ^b   Martins, J M ^b,c   Leorri, E ^d   Corbett, R ^d   Fatela, F ^e  

^a INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSIDADE DO ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^d EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER ASSEMBLAGE; CARBON ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; DAM CONSTRUCTION; DEGRADATION RATE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLOOD EVENT; IBERIAN PENINSULA; INFORMATION CONCERNING; LAND PLANTS; LIPID BIOMARKERS; LONG CHAIN N-ALKANES; MINING EXPLOITATION; MOLECULAR COMPOSITIONS; MOLECULAR DISTRIBUTION; N-ALKANES; ORGANIC MATTER SOURCE; SEDIMENT CORE; TIDAL MARSHES; TOTAL NITROGEN;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMARKERS; DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; FLOODS; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PARAFFINS; SEDIMENTS; WETLANDS;

RIVERS;

BIOMARKER; CARBON ISOTOPE; DAM CONSTRUCTION; DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; FLOODING; HIGHSTAND; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAND USE CHANGE; MINING; ORGANIC MATTER; PLANKTON; REACTION RATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT CORE; VASCULAR PLANT;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; MINHO ESTUARY;

EMBRYOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84869215961     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.06.014     Document Type: Article

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