Oxygen pore water profiles in continental shelf sediments of the North Sea: Turbulent versus molecular diffusion

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 145, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 63-75

  Lohse, Lutz ^a   Epping, Eric H G ^a,b   Helder, Willem ^a   Van Raaphorst, Wim ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bottom shear stress; Enhanced transport; Micloelectrode; Molecular diffusion; Oxygen; Sediment water exchange; Turbulent diffusion

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; MARINE SEDIMENT; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; OXYGEN; POREWATER; SEDIMENTS; TURBULENT DIFFUSION;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0030303716     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps145063     Document Type: Article

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