Sinking and suspended particles in the South-west Pacific

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 113-126

  Kawahata, Hodaka ^a,b   Ohta, Hidekazu ^c  

^a Geol Survey Japan   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c The General Environmental Technos Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Sinking particle fluxes; Tasman Sea

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC MATTER; PARTICLE SETTLING; PARTICULATE MATTER; PLANKTON; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

CORAL SEA; TASMAN SEA;

EID: 0034085270     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF99057     Document Type: Article

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