Sediment characteristic of the continental shelf in the northern Gulf of Mexico
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| Autori: | , , , |
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| Natura: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Data di pubblicazione: | 1993 |
| Descrizione: | The Mississippi River is the largest river in the United States and discharges substantial amounts of nutrients, organic carbon, and sediments onto the Texas-Louisiana continental shelf in the northern Gulf of Mexico. As a basic part of an initiative to describe processes at the sediment-water interface in the northern Gulf of Mexico shelf ecosystem we measured sediment grain size and per cent total organic carbon. This paper reports sediment grain size characteristics and per cent carbon, and makes preliminary associations between these variables and carbon utilization by the benthos (calculated from sediment oxygen consumption rates) and macrofauna biomass. |
| Stato: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Istituzione: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Lingua: | Inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/29289 |
| Accesso online: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/29289 |
| Keyword: | Sediment grain size organic carbon benthic metabolism |