The distribution of 227Ac along the GA01 section in the North Atlantic

• Published in: Marine Chemistry
• Main Authors: Le Roy, Emilie, Van Beek, Pieter, Lacan, François, Souhaut, Marc, Sanial, Virginie, Charette, Matthew A., Henderson, Paul B., Deng, Feifei
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier BV 2023
• Subjects: GEOTRACES; Actinium; Actinium-227; North Atlantic; Canada; Greenland; Irminger Basin
• Online Access: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00815/92667/98965.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2023.104207; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00815/92667/

Actinium-227 is a powerful tool to study vertical mixing in the ocean, and was more recently proposed as a tracer of hydrothermal plumes. However, because 227Ac activities are especially low in the ocean, relatively few studies have been conducted to date, and none has been done on the large scale,...