Cycling of lithogenic marine particles in the US GEOTRACES North Atlantic transect

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 116, Issue , 2015, Pages 283-302

  Ohnemus, Daniel C ^a,c   Lam, Phoebe J ^a,b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Aeolian dust; Aggregation; Aluminum; Disaggregation; GEOTRACES; Iron; Lithogenic; Marine particles; Particulate trace metals; Scavenging; Sinking speed; Titanium

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; DUST; IRON; SCAVENGING; TITANIUM; TRACE ELEMENTS;

AEOLIAN DUSTS; DISAGGREGATION; GEOTRACES; LITHOGENIC; MARINE PARTICLES; PARTICULATE TRACE METALS;

AGGLOMERATION;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FRACTIONATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY); TRACE METAL; TRACER; TRANSECT; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84929965355     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2014.11.019     Document Type: Article

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