Iron Fertilization of the Subantarctic Ocean During the Last Ice Age

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Martínez-García, Alfredo, Sigman, Daniel M., Ren, Haojia, Anderson, Robert F., Straub, Marietta, Hodell, David A., Jaccard, Samuel L., Eglinton, Timothy I., Haug, Gerald H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2014
• Subjects: Martínez; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1246848; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1246848

Productive Dustiness The idea that biological productivity in the surface ocean is limited by a lack of available iron has been widely accepted, but it has been difficult to show that this effect might have operated in the geological past. Martínez-García et al. (p. 1347 ) investigated the isotopic...