Tracking single coccolith dissolution with picogram resolution and implications for CO2 sequestration and ocean acidification

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 8571-8576

  Hassenkam, T ^a   Johnsson, A ^a   Bechgaard, K ^a   Stipp, S L S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Dissolution rate; Marine carbon cycle; Ocean buffer capacity; Single particle dissolution

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE;

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COCCOLITH; DISSOLUTION; MICROFOSSIL; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; SOLUBILITY;

ALGAE; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 79957703306     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1009447108     Document Type: Article

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