Global pulses of organic carbon burial in deep-sea sediments during glacial maxima

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Cartapanis, Olivier ^a,b   Bianchi, Daniele ^b,c,d   Jaccard, Samuel L ^a   Galbraith, Eric D ^b,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^f INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER;

ACCUMULATION RATE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CORE ANALYSIS; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; ORGANIC CARBON; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEEP SEA; GLACIAL PERIOD; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HOLOCENE; ICE SHEET; INTERGLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; OXYGENATION; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

EID: 84959450273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10796     Document Type: Article

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