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Science 30 April 1982:
Vol. 216. no. 4545, pp. 516 - 518
DOI: 10.1126/science.216.4545.516
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Deep Advective Transport of Lithogenic Particles in Panama Basin

SUSUMU HONJO 1, DEREK W. SPENCER 1, and JOHN W. FARRINGTON 1

1 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543

Sediment traps were deployed at several depths between 660 and 3800 meters in the Panama Basin. The flux of lithogenic particles increased with increasing depth. This increase was due primarily to particles of beidellite (a smectite clay), which was identical to the clay occurring in bottom sediment on the continental slope to the west of the sediment trap mooring. The beidellite vertical flux at the Panama Basin station increased when an easterly current prevailed and decreased when the current reversed, indicating that a major portion of smectite was transported horizontally at mid-water depth to the mooring site from the nearby continental slope.

Submitted on October 30, 1981
Revised on March 10, 1982


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