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Science 20 September 1974:
Vol. 185. no. 4156, pp. 1045 - 1047
DOI: 10.1126/science.185.4156.1045
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Kerogen Recycling in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

William M. Sackett 1, C. Wylie Poag 1, and Brian J. Eadie 1

1 Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843

Analyses of the stable isotopes of the organic carbon and microscopic examination of the sediment particles suggest that up to 90 percent of the organic matter in Ross Sea sediments is derived from the igneous and ancient metamorphic and sedimentary rocks that are being glacially eroded on the Antarctic continent and transported seaward.


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