Efficiency of the silicate pump at a coastal oligotrophic site in the Mediterranean Sea

• Main Authors: LEBLANC, Karine, QUEGUINER, Bernard, Raimbault, Patrick, Garcia, Nicole
• Other Authors: Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie (MIO), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2005
• Subjects: PARTICLE FLUXES; NORTHEASTERN ATLANTIC; PARTICULATE FLUXES; MARINE-SEDIMENTS; BIOGENIC SILICA; DOWNWARD FLUXES; ORGANIC-MATTER; SOUTHERN-OCEAN; WORLD OCEAN; LIONS; [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; LeBlanc; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00688018; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00688018/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00688018/file/bg-2-219-2005.pdf

A one-year survey of the sedimenting particulate material was conducted at the SOFi site located on the edge of the continental slope in the Gulf of Lions (Northwestern Mediterranean) between September 1999 and December 2000. The main focus of this paper was to establish an annual budget of biogenic...