Sediment characteristic of the continental shelf in the northern Gulf of Mexico
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| Авторы: | , , , |
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| Формат: | artículo original |
| Статус: | Versión publicada |
| Дата публикации: | 1993 |
| Описание: | 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. |
| Страна: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Институт: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Язык: | Inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:archivo.portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/29289 |
| Online-ссылка: | https://archivo.revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/29289 |
| Ключевое слово: | Sediment grain size organic carbon benthic metabolism |