Material supply to the abyssal seafloor in the northeast Atlantic

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 1-4, 2001, Pages 27-63

  Lampitt, R S ^a   Bett, B J ^a   Kiriakoulakis, K ^b   Popova, E E ^a   Ragueneau, O ^c   Vangriesheim, A ^d   Wolff, G A ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

^d IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; METEOROLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SNOW;

SEAFLOOR;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ABYSSAL PLAIN; PARTICULATE FLUX; SEAFLOOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT TRAP;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PORCUPINE ABYSSAL PLAIN;

ERETHIZON DORSATUM;

EID: 0034753880     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(01)00047-7     Document Type: Review

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