Organic Carbon-14 in the Amazon River System
- 7 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 231 (4742) , 1129-1131
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.231.4742.1129
Abstract
Coarse and fine suspended particulate organic materials and dissolved humic and fulvic acids transported by the Amazon River all contain bomb-produced carbon-14, indicating relatively rapid turnover of the parent carbon pools. However, the carbon-14 contents of these coexisting carbon forms are measurably different and may reflect varying degrees of retention by soils in the drainage basin.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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