On the importance of the decay of 234Th in determining size-fractionated C/234Th ratio on marine particles

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Cai, Pinghe ^a   Dai, Minhan ^a   Chen, Weifang ^a   Tang, Tiantian ^a   Zhou, Kuanbo ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; THORIUM;

BROWNIAN-PUMPING MODEL; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; REMINERALIZATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; REMINERALIZATION; THORIUM ISOTOPE; UPPER OCEAN;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 34548608814     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027792     Document Type: Article

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