The behavior of particle-reactive tracers in a high turbidity environment: 234Th and 210Pb on the Amazon continental shelf

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2123-2137

  Smoak, Joseph M ^a,b   Demaster, David J ^a   Kuehl, Steven A ^c   Pope, Robert H ^a   Mckee, Brent A ^d  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^d Louisiana Universities Marine Research Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; LEAD-210; PARTICLE SCAVENGING; PARTICLE-REACTIVE SPECIES; RESUSPENSION; SCAVENGING; SORPTION; THORIUM-234; TRACER; TRACERS; TURBIDITY;

ATLANTIC, AMAZON CONTINENTAL SHELF; ATLANTIC, AMAZON SHELF;

EID: 0029751059     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-7037(96)00092-0     Document Type: Article

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