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Science 5 May 1978:
Vol. 200. no. 4341, pp. 533 - 535
DOI: 10.1126/science.200.4341.533
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Chemistry of Oceanic Particulate Matter and Sediments: Implications for Bottom Sediment Resuspension

EDWARD T. BAKER 1 and RICHARD A. FEELY 1

1 Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Environmental Research Laboratories, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, Washington 98115

Analyses of suspended particulate matter from the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean have defined a 400-meter-thick benthic nepheloid layer enriched in aluminum, silicon, iron, and manganese relative to the overlying waters. Chemical mass-balance calculations suggest that the concentration increases in the benthic nepheloid layer are due to resuspension from the fraction of the local bottom sediments in the size range ge1 micrometer.

Submitted on October 31, 1977


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