Sources of organic matter and paleo-environmental implications inferred from carbon isotope compositions of lacustrine sediments at Inexpressible Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Yangyang, Wei, Jing, Jin, Yaguang, Nie, Xin, Chen, Libin, Wu, Pingqing, Fu, Xiaodong, Liu, Emslie, Steven D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polar Research Institute of China - PRIC 2016
• Subjects: Terrestrial; Ross Sea; Guano; Inexpressible Island; Advances in Polar Science; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Science
• Online Access: http://library.arcticportal.org/2615/; http://library.arcticportal.org/2615/1/A1704003.pdf

The carbon isotopic composition of organic matter (δ13Corg) was determined in two sediment cores (IIL1 and IIL9) recovered from Inexpressible Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica, and analyzed to identify the sources of that organic matter. The δ13Corg values of sediments of IIL9 were found to vary between...