Articles | Volume 16, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-1705-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-1705-2019
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25 Apr 2019
Research article |  | 25 Apr 2019

Long-chain diols in settling particles in tropical oceans: insights into sources, seasonality and proxies

Marijke W. de Bar, Jenny E. Ullgren, Robert C. Thunnell, Stuart G. Wakeham, Geert-Jan A. Brummer, Jan-Berend W. Stuut, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, and Stefan Schouten

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