Soil organic matter transport along an sub-Arctic river-sea transect

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 51, Issue , 2012, Pages 63-72

  Doĝrul Selver, Ayça ^a   Talbot, Helen M ^b   Gustafsson, Örjan ^c   Boult, Stephen ^a   van Dongen, Bart E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; ARCTIC REGIONS; ARCTIC WATERS; BACTERIOHOPANEPOLYOLS; BALTIC SEA; ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS; ISOPRENOIDS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; STABLE CARBON; SUB-ARCTIC; SURFACE SEDIMENTS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; GLYCEROL; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SOILS;

BIOMARKER; CARBON ISOTOPE; ESTUARINE FRONT; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; ISOPRENOID; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL TYPE; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUBARCTIC REGION; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BOTHNIAN BAY; GULF OF BOTHNIA; KALIX RIVER; NORRBOTTEN; SWEDEN;

EID: 84884676310     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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