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Thorium and Protactinium isotopes as tracers of marine particle fluxes and deep water circulation in the Mediterranean Sea
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Geology.
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay,Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay,Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay,Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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2018 (English)In: Marine Chemistry, ISSN 0304-4203, E-ISSN 1872-7581, Vol. 199, p. 12-23Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

231Pa, 230Th and 232Th were analyzed in unfiltered sea water samples (n = 66) and suspended particles (n = 19) collected in the Mediterranean Sea during the MedSeA-GA04-S cruise along the GEOTRACES section GA04S and used to investigate mechanisms controlling the distribution and fractionation of Pa and Th in an ocean margin environment. 231Pa and230Th are particle reactive radionuclides and are often used astracers of processes such as boundary scavenging, particle transport and ocean circulation. The depth profiles of total 231Pa and 230Th concentrations in the Mediterranean Sea displayed non-linear shapes. Higher total 232Th concentrations were observed at the straits and in deepwaters pointing at lithogenic sources. Fractionation factors FTh/Pa ranged from 1.4 to 9. Application of a box-model illustrated that 94 % of the 231Pa and almost all of the 230Th (99.9 %) produced in the Mediterranean Sea is removed to the sediment by scavenging. The negligible export of 230Th to the Atlantic Ocean, leads to a reevaluation of the mean settling speed of the filtered particles, which is now estimated to 500-1000 m/y. The low FTh/Pa fractionation factors are attributed to the efficient scavenging and lack of transport of 231Pa to the Atlantic Ocean.

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Elsevier, 2018. Vol. 199, p. 12-23
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Thorium, Protactinium, particle fluxes, Mediterranean Sea
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Geochemistry
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The changing Earth
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URN: urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-2762DOI: 10.1016/j.marchem.2017.12.002OAI: oai:DiVA.org:nrm-2762DiVA, id: diva2:1186084
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Swedish Research Council, 349-202-6287Available from: 2018-02-27 Created: 2018-02-27 Last updated: 2018-02-27Bibliographically approved

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