Present water mass calcium carbonate corrosiveness in the eastern South Atlantic inferred from ultrastructural breakdown of Globigerina bulloides in surface sediments

Marine Geology

Volumn 186, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 471-486

  Volbers, Andrea N A ^a,b   Henrich, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctic Bottom Water; Calcite lysocline; Calcium carbonate dissolution; Globigerina bulloides; Planktic foraminifera; South Atlantic

Indexed keywords

MICROENVIRONMENTS;

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; SEDIMENTS;

HYDROGEOLOGY;

BOTTOM WATER; CALCITE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; DISSOLUTION; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037055136     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(02)00333-X     Document Type: Article

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