A "shallow bathtub ring" of local sedimentary iron input maintains the Palmer Deep biological hotspot on the West Antarctic Peninsula shelf
Palmer Deep (PD) is one of several regional hotspots of biological productivity along the inner shelf of the West Antarctic Peninsula. The proximity of hotspots to shelf-crossing deep troughs has led to the ‘canyon hypothesis’, which proposes that circumpolar deep water flowing shoreward along the c...
Published in: | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences |
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Main Authors: | , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Royal Society
2018
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Online Access: | http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518750/ http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/376/2122/20170171 |