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SUBMITTER: Dunlea AG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5635029 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dunlea Ann G AG Murray Richard W RW Santiago Ramos Danielle P DP Higgins John A JA
Nature communications 20171010 1
Authigenic clay minerals formed on or in the seafloor occur in every type of marine sediment. They are recognized to be a major sink of many elements in the ocean but are difficult to study directly due to dilution by detrital clay minerals. The extremely low dust fluxes and marine sedimentation rates in the South Pacific Gyre (SPG) provide a unique opportunity to examine relatively undiluted authigenic clay. Here, using Mg isotopes and element concentrations combined with multivariate statistic ...[more]