Calcium carbonate content in surface sediments and benthic fauna on Antarctic shelves ...

• Main Authors: Hauck, Judith, Gerdes, Dieter, Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Hoppema, Mario, Kuhn, Gerhard, Nehrke, Gernot, Völker, Christoph, Wolf-Gladrow, Dieter A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2012
• Subjects: Giant box corer; van Veen Grab; Multiboxcorer; Multiple investigations; ANT-III/2; ANT-V/1; ANT-VI/3; ANT-VII/4; ANT-IX/3; ANT-XIII/3; ANT-XV/3; ANT-XVII/3; ANT-XIX/5; ANT-XXI/2; ANT-XXIII/8; WH068/1; WH068/2; Polarstern; Walther Herwig II; Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification BIOACID; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctica; Ocean acidification; Ross Sea; Sea ice; Weddell Sea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.757933; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.757933

We analyzed 214 new core-top samples for their CaCO3 content from shelves all around Antarctica in order to understand their distribution and contribution to the marine carbon cycle. The distribution of sedimentary CaCO3 on the Antarctic shelves is connected to environmental parameters where we cons...