Particle flux in the twilight zone of the eastern Indian Ocean: A constraint from 234U-230Th and 228Ra-228Th disequilibria

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1758-1772

  Okubo, Ayako ^a,b   Obata, Hajime ^a   Luo, Shangde ^c   Gamo, Toshitaka ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki ^a   Minami, Hideki ^d   Yamada, Masatoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; CARBONATES; CONSTRAINT THEORY; SILICA;

LITHOGENIC PARTICLE INPUTS; PARTICLE FLUX; SILICATE DISTRIBUTIONS; VERTICAL MIXING;

URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

EUPHOTIC ZONE; NITRATE; PARTICULATE FLUX; RADIUM; THORIUM; TWILIGHT; URANIUM; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VERTICAL MIXING;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 36749098456     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2007.06.009     Document Type: Article

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