Quantifying export production in the Southern Ocean: Implications for the Baxs proxy

Paleoceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Hernandez Sanchez, Maria T ^a   Mills, Rachel A ^b   Planquette, Hélène ^b   Pancost, Richard D ^a   Hepburn, Laura ^b   Salter, Ian ^c   Fitzgeorge Balfour, Tania ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BARITE; BARIUM; BIOLOGICAL PUMP; CARBON FLUX; GEOCHEMISTRY; IRON; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PRESERVATION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SUSPENDED LOAD; WATER COLUMN;

CROZET PLATEAU; INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84855272504     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA002111     Document Type: Article

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