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Science 22 January 1982:
Vol. 215. no. 4531, pp. 395 - 397
DOI: 10.1126/science.215.4531.395
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Heat Production by Sediment: Ecological Significance

MARIO M. PAMATMAT 1

1 Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, San, Francisco State University, Tiburon, California 94920

Sediments held at constant temperature evolve heat at rates that can be measured by direct calorimetry. The heat production rates decrease with depth from the surface layer. Total heat flux is an indication of the rate of degradation of potential chemical energy originally fixed by photosynthesis and represents benthic energy flow.

Submitted on February 3, 1981
Revised on September 28, 1981


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