Rapid neodymium release to marine waters from lithogenic sediments in the Amazon estuary

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Rousseau, Tristan C C ^a   Sonke, Jeroen E ^a   Chmeleff, Jérôme ^a   Van Beek, Pieter ^a   Souhaut, Marc ^a   Boaventura, Geraldo ^b   Seyler, Patrick ^c   Jeandel, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANTHANIDE; NEODYMIUM; SEA WATER;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COAGULATION; COLLOID; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NEODYMIUM; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; RADIUM ISOTOPE; RIVER DISCHARGE; SALINITY; SEAWATER; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRACER;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COLLOID; ESTUARY; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; RIVER; SALINITY; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

AMAZON ESTUARY; BRAZIL;

EID: 84937019860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8592     Document Type: Article

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