Carbon Mineralization Pathways in Antarctic Shelf Sediments, East Antarctic Peninsula

• Main Authors: Baloza, Marwa, Lamping, Nele, Henkel, Susann, Müller, Juliane, Kasten, Sabine, Holtappels, Moritz
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Western Shelf; Antarc*; Sea ice; ice covered areas
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/52457/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/52457/1/Gold_template_MB.pdf; https://goldschmidt.info/2020/abstracts/abstractView?id=2020002254; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.7853b477-8485-49b2-9e69-ae83258bab02; https://hdl.handle.net/

The Antarctic continental shelf represents roughly 11% of the world’s continental-shelf area and exhibits the highest area-based primary production rates in the Southern Ocean. On the shelf, primary production strongly varies depending on light conditions, sea ice cover, mixing depth and nutrient av...