Deep ocean nutrients during the Last Glacial Maximum deduced from sponge silicon isotopic compositions

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 292, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 290-300

  Hendry, Katharine R ^a,b   Georg, R Bastian ^b   Rickaby, Rosalind E M ^b   Robinson, Laura F ^a   Halliday, Alex N ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deep water; Glacial; Porifera; Silicic acid; Silicon cycle; Spicule

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CARBON EXPORT; CONCURRENT REDUCTION; DEEP OCEAN; DEEP WATER; FRACTIONATION FACTORS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; NUTRIENT UTILIZATION; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PORIFERA; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SCOTIA SEA; SEA SPONGE; SILICIC ACIDS; SILICON CYCLE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; STABLE ISOTOPES; TIGHTLY-COUPLED; TIME-SCALES;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; NUTRIENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEAWATER;

SILICON;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DEEP SEA; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NUTRIENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SILICIC ACID; SILICON; SPONGE; STABLE ISOTOPE; UPWELLING;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; PORIFERA;

EID: 77950593753     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.02.005     Document Type: Article

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