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Flegal et al. 1995

Flegal, A.R., Sanudo-Wilhelmy, S.A. and Scelfo, G.M. (1995). Silver in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Marine Chemistry 49(4): 315-320. doi: 10.1016/0304-4203(95)00021-I.

Vertical profiles of total silver concentrations in the northeast and southeast Atlantic are oceanographically consistent with total dissolved (<0.45 mu m) silver concentration profiles in the North Pacific. These show that silver is a recycled element with low concentrations in surface waters (< or =0.7 pM) and relatively high concentrations (7 pM) in deep waters (4600 m) of the Atlantic, and that there is a systematic enrichment of silver concentrations in deep waters from the North Atlantic to the North Pacific (>20 pM). This nutrient-type distribution is further evidenced by the highly significant (p<0.01, simple linear regression) correlation (R> or =0.916) of silver and silicate concentrations in both the North Pacific and eastern Atlantic.

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Keywords
Angola Basin; Atlantic Ocean; bathymetry; Cape Verde Basin;, concentration; cycles; deep-water environment; distribution; East, Atlantic; enrichment; metals; Namibia abyssal plain; North, Atlantic; nutrients; ocean floors; provenance; Seine abyssal, plain; silver; solution; South Atlantic, 02B, Hydrochemistry

Journal
Marine Chemistry
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