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Science 26 November 1982:
Vol. 218. no. 4575, pp. 883 - 884
DOI: 10.1126/science.218.4575.883
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Seasonality and Interaction of Biogenic and Lithogenic Particulate Flux at the Panama Basin

SUSUMU HONJO 1

1 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543

Time-series sediment traps were deployed for an entire year at three depths (890, 2590, and 3560 meters) at a deepwater station (3860 meters) in the Panama Basin. The amount of horizontal and lithogenic particulate material arriving at the three depths was seasonally pulsed and directly reflected changes in surface primary production. Two spikes of organic flux were simultaneously recorded at all three depths: (i) a period of high productivity during regional upwelling in February through March and (ii) an unusual bloom of a single species of coccolithophorid during June through July. This latter spike delivered approximately 25 grams of coccolith per square meter of area at a depth of 3860 meters during less than 60 days. The flux of lithogenic particles increased with increasing depth and was seasonally correlated to surface production and current direction, and not to the detritus discharged in river flow. The data suggest that suspended clays are efficiently scavenged from the water column by rapidly sinking organic aggregates.

Submitted on May 3, 1982
Revised on August 6, 1982


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