Floodplain dynamics control the age distribution of organic carbon in large rivers

Mark A Torres, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, Ajay B Limaye, University of Minnesota, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Vamsi Ganti, Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom, A. Joshua West, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Woodward W Fischer, Caltech, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States and Michael P Lamb, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States