Fluxes and foraminifera fluxes of sediment traps in the Peru-Chile Current

• Main Authors: Hebbeln, Dierk, Marchant, Margarita, Wefer, Gerold
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2000
• Subjects: CH3-1_trap; CH4-1_trap; JGOFS; Joint Global Ocean Flux Study; OCEMOS 1; OCEMOS 2; off Chile; Trap; Neogloboquadrina pachyderma
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.759825; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.759825

Time-series sediment traps were deployed 180 km off the Chilean coast at 30°S in the Peru-Chile Current during the El Niño period 1991/1992 (6 months) and during the 'normal' period 1993/1994 (12 months). Under normal conditions in 1993/1994 the particle fluxes display a pronounced seasona...