Scavenging and fractionation of thorium vs. protactinium in the ocean, as determined from particle-water partitioning experiments with sediment trap material from the Gulf of Mexico and Sargasso Sea

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 286, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 131-138

  Roberts, Kimberly A ^a   Xu, Chen ^a   Hung, Chin Chang ^b   Conte, Maureen H ^c   Santschi, Peter H ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

Author keywords

calcium carbonate; carbohydrates; Gulf of Mexico; Oceanic Flux Program (OFP); protactinium; Sargasso Sea; thorium

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CHELATING AGENT; EXTRACELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES; GULF OF MEXICO; MATRIX; MESOPELAGIC; OCEANIC FLUX PROGRAM (OFP); ORGANIC PHASIS; POLYSACCHARIDE CONTENTS; SARGASSO SEA; WATER PARTITION COEFFICIENTS; WATER PARTITIONING;

ACTINIDES; BIOPOLYMERS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ALLOYS; CARBONATES; CARBONATION; CHELATION; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; NEUTRON DETECTORS; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POLYSACCHARIDES; RADIOISOTOPES; SEDIMENT TRAPS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; THORIUM;

PROTACTINIUM;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MATRIX; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTACTINIUM; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIONUCLIDE; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY); SEDIMENT TRAP; THORIUM; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; SARGASSO SEA;

EID: 69549124001     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.06.029     Document Type: Article

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