Intra-annual variability of extremely rapid sedimentation onto Gardar Drift in the northern North Atlantic

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1027-1038

  Jonkers, Lukas ^a   Mienis, Furu ^a   Boer, Wim ^a   Hall, Ian R ^b   Brummer, Geert Jan A ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benthic processes; Bottom current; Lead 210; Seabed observatory; Sediment drift; Sediment trap

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CHANGE; BENTHIC PROCESSES; BIOGENIC MATTERS; BOTTOM CURRENT; COMPOSITIONAL CHANGES; CURRENT VELOCITY; DEPOSITIONAL SETTING; FLUX VARIABILITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTRA-ANNUAL VARIABILITY; LITHOGENIC MATERIAL; NORTH ATLANTIC; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PARTICLE FLUXES; PARTICULATE MATTER; RAPID SEDIMENTATION; SEA FLOOR; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SEDIMENT DRIFT; SPRING BLOOMS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIME-SCALES; TOTAL FLUX;

BUILDINGS; OBSERVATORIES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT TRAPS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ACCUMULATION RATE; ANNUAL VARIATION; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; BOTTOM CURRENT; CURRENT VELOCITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; LEAD ISOTOPE; MAGNITUDE; OBSERVATORY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PARTICULATE FLUX; PARTICULATE MATTER; RECONSTRUCTION; REWORKING; SEAFLOOR; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT TRAP; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GARDAR DRIFT;

EID: 77954275337     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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