Air-borne dust fluxes to a deep water sediment trap in the Sargasso Sea

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 311-320

  Jicke, T D ^a   Dorling, S ^a   Deuser, W G ^b   Church, T M ^c   Arimoto, R ^d,e   Prospe, J M ^f  

^a New Mexico State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINOSILICATE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; DUST DEPOSITION; SEDIMENT TRAP;

SARGASSO SEA;

EID: 0031720614     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GB03368     Document Type: Article

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