A deeper respired carbon pool in the glacial equatorial Pacific Ocean

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 299, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 417-425

  Bradtmiller, L I ^a   Anderson, R F ^b,c   Sachs, J P ^d   Fleisher, M Q ^b  

^a MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon storage; Equatorial Pacific; Glacial period; Opal flux; Oxygenation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; BOTTOM WATER; CARBON POOL; CARBON STORAGE; DEEP OCEAN; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN; GLACIAL PERIOD; HOLOCENES; LAST GLACIAL PERIOD; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; OPAL FLUX; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; REDOX CONDITION; REDOX-SENSITIVE METALS; REDUCING CONDITIONS; SCALE TRANSFER; SEA FLOOR;

DISSOLUTION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LAKES; METAL RECOVERY; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN; OXYGENATION; OXYGENATORS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; URANIUM;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOTTOM WATER; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DISSOLUTION; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGENATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT CORE; URANIUM;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 78049301640     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.09.022     Document Type: Article

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