Dissolved and particulate 230Th-232Th in the Central Equatorial Pacific Ocean: Evidence for far-field transport of the East Pacific Rise hydrothermal plume

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 431, Issue , 2015, Pages 87-95

  Lopez, Grecia I ^a   Marcantonio, Franco ^a   Lyle, Mitch ^a,c   Lynch Stieglitz, Jean ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central Equatorial Pacific; Dust flux; EPR hydrothermal plume; Far field transport; Th 230; Th 232

Indexed keywords

DUST; MANGANESE; OCEANOGRAPHY; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION MODEL; CONCENTRATION PROFILES; DUST FLUX; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN; FAR FIELD; HYDROTHERMAL PLUME; LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS;

DISSOLUTION;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; HYDROTHERMAL PLUME; THERMODYNAMICS; THORIUM ISOTOPE; WATER COLUMN;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84942746908     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.09.019     Document Type: Article

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