Sediment trap and in-situ pump size-fractionated POC/234Th ratios in the Mediterranean Sea and Northwest Atlantic: Implications for POC export

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 599-613

  Lepore, K ^a   Moran, S B ^b   Burd, A B ^c   Jackson, G A ^d   Smith, J N ^e   Kelly, R P ^b   Kaberi, H ^f   Stavrakakis, S ^f   Assimakopoulou, G ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^f INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

234Th flux; Mediterranean Sea; Northwest Atlantic Ocean; POC export; POC 234Th ratios

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARTICLE SIZE; PUMPS; SEDIMENT TRAPS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

234TH FLUX; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTHWEST ATLANTIC OCEAN; POC EXPORT; POC/234TH RATIOS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

FRACTIONATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT TRAP; THORIUM ISOTOPE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 61549140716     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2008.11.004     Document Type: Article

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