Variable export fluxes and efficiencies for calcite, opal, and organic carbon in the Atlantic Ocean: A ballast effect in action?

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Thomalla, Sandy J ^a   Poulton, Alex J ^b,d   Sanders, Richard ^b   Turnewitsch, Robert ^c   Holligan, Patrick M ^b   Lucas, Mike I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c Scottish Association for Marine Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; CALCITE; DISSOLUTION; ORGANIC CARBON;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CALCITE; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DISSOLUTION; EUPHOTIC ZONE; OPAL; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; REMINERALIZATION; SURFACE FLUX; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 45449090259     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GB002982     Document Type: Article

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