Riverine particulate material dissolution as a significant flux of strontium to the oceans

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 355-356, Issue , 2012, Pages 51-59

  Jones, Morgan T ^a   Pearce, Christopher R ^b,d   Jeandel, Catherine ^c   Gislason, Sigurethur R ^a   Eiriksdottir, Eydis S ^a   Mavromatis, Vasileios ^b   Oelkers, Eric H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c LEGOS   (France)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Marine mass balance; Riverine particulate material; Seawater composition; Strontium isotopes

Indexed keywords

BATCH EXPERIMENTS; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; ISOTOPIC MASS BALANCE; MASS BALANCE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; PARTICULATE MATERIALS; RELEASE RATE; RIVERINE FLUX; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES; SURFACE AREA;

DISSOLUTION; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

STRONTIUM;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DISSOLUTION; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; MASS BALANCE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEAWATER; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; WATER CHEMISTRY;

EID: 84867130751     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.08.040     Document Type: Article

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