A mid-Holocene transition in the nitrogen dynamics of the western equatorial Pacific: Evidence of a deepening thermocline?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Kienast, M ^a   Lehmann, M F ^b,c   Timmermann, A ^d   Galbraith, E ^e   Bolliet, T ^f   Holbourn, A ^f   Normandeau, C ^a   Laj, C ^g  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^g CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATES; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; LATTER MECHANISMS; NITRATE CONSUMPTION; NITRATE ISOTOPES; NITROGEN DYNAMICS; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SUBSURFACE WATERS;

NITROGEN FIXATION;

HOLOCENE; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; THERMOCLINE;

ASIA; EURASIA; MINDANAO; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); PHILIPPINES; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 60149099689     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035464     Document Type: Article

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