Dissolved Calcium Carbonate in the Labrador Sea

• Published in: Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
• Main Authors: MacIntyre, W. G., Platford, R. F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1964
• Subjects: General Medicine; Greenland; Labrador Sea
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f64-123; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f64-123

Calcium and carbonate ion concentrations have been measured in the upper 100 m in an area southwest of Greenland. The values indicated that these waters were about 100% supersaturated with respect to calcite and about saturated with respect to aragonite. Because of the large influx of CO 2 from the air in this region it was concluded that considerable CO 2 must have been utilized or there would have been evidence for the transport of this gas to lower levels.