Dataset: Inorganic Sediment Chemistry - PC72
Deployment: TT013

Inorganic Sediment Chemistry from USJGOFS EqPac TT013 PC72
Principal Investigator: 
Margaret Leinen (Florida Atlantic University, FAU)
Richard W Murray (Boston University, BU)
BCO-DMO Data Manager: 
Theresa McKee (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Project: 
Current State: 
Final no updates expected
Version: 
13 May 2013
Deployment Synonyms:
 EqPac Benthic Survey
Version Date: 
2013-05-13
Description

Accumulation of Fe, calcium carbonate (CaCO3), Ba, Al, P, Ti and ratios from Piston Core (PC) 72.

Relevant references:

Links between iron input and opal deposit in the Pleistocene equatorial Pacific Ocean.

Supplemental Information: Links between iron input and opal deposit in the Pleistocene equatorial Pacific Ocean.

Murray R. W., Knowlton C., Leinen M., Mix A. C., and Polsky C. H., 2000, Export production and carbonate dissolution in the central equatorial Pacific Ocean over the past 1 Ma.  Paleoceanography, 15, 570-592.

Murray R. W., Leinen M., Murray D. W., Mix A. C, and Knowlton, C. W., 1995, Terrigenous Fe input and biogenic sedimentation in the glacial and interglacial Equatorial Pacific Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles,  9, 667-684.

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