Rare earth element distributions in the West Pacific: Trace element sources and conservative vs. non-conservative behavior

• Main Authors: Behrens, M., Pahnke, K., Paffrath, R., Schnetger, B., Brumsack, H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; Pacific; Southern Ocean; Tonga; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0003-B7A0-9; http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0003-B7A2-7

Recent studies suggest that transport and water mass mixing may play a dominant role in controlling the distribution of dissolved rare earth element concentrations ([REE]) at least in parts of the North and South Atlantic and the Pacific Southern Ocean. Here we report vertically and spatially high-r...