Importance of biogenic opal as ballast of particulate organic carbon (POC) transport and existence of mineral ballast-associated and residual POC in the Western Pacific Subarctic Gyre

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Honda, Makio C ^a   Watanabe, Shuichi ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE;

BIOGENIC OPALS; DECOMPOSITION RATE; DEEP SEA; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; LITHOGENIC MATERIAL; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; TIME-SERIES SEDIMENT TRAP; WESTERN PACIFIC;

MINERALS;

EID: 77956819547     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041521     Document Type: Article

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