Excess sediment 230Th: Transport along the sea floor or enhanced water column scavenging?

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Broecker, Wallace ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTS;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; ORGANIC MATTER; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY); SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; THORIUM ISOTOPE; WATER COLUMN;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 44649109730     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GB003057     Document Type: Article

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