Basin-scale transport of hydrothermal dissolved metals across the South Pacific Ocean

Joseph A. Resing (), Peter N. Sedwick, Christopher R. German, William J. Jenkins, James W. Moffett, Bettina M. Sohst and Alessandro Tagliabue ()
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Joseph A. Resing: Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and the Ocean, University of Washington and NOAA-PMEL
Peter N. Sedwick: Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Old Dominion University
Christopher R. German: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
William J. Jenkins: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
James W. Moffett: University of Southern California
Bettina M. Sohst: Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Old Dominion University
Alessandro Tagliabue: Ocean and Ecological Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool

Nature, 2015, vol. 523, issue 7559, 200-203

Abstract: Hydrothermal dissolved iron, manganese, and aluminium from the southern East Pacific Rise is transported several thousand kilometres westward across the South Pacific Ocean; global hydrothermal dissolved iron input is estimated to be more than four times what was previously thought and modelling suggests it must be physically or chemically stabilized in solution.

Date: 2015
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