Intact polar and core glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether lipids in the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone: I. Selective preservation and degradation in the water column and consequences for the TEX86

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 98, Issue , 2012, Pages 228-243

  Schouten, Stefan ^a   Pitcher, Angela ^a   Hopmans, Ellen C ^a   Villanueva, Laura ^a   van Bleijswijk, Judith ^a   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; DEGRADATION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LIPID; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; PRESERVATION; RNA; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; WATER COLUMN; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 84880046413     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2012.05.002     Document Type: Article

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