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The Marine Mineral Aerosol

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The Role of Air-Sea Exchange in Geochemical Cycling

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In 1972 I wrote an article on what was then a relatively new topic, i.e. the implications of the presence of a dust veil over the oceans (Chester, 1972), and in 1985 I put together a state of the art review on our present knowledge of this marine dust veil (Chester, 1985). During the period between these two articles there has been a great leap forward in our understanding of how processes occurring in the atmosphere can affect many aspects of chemical oceanography, and it is perhaps only now that we are beginning to grasp the full implications that arise from the presence of this marine dust veil, particularly with respect to the effects it has on the major oceanic biogeochemical cycles.

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    Patrick Buat-Ménard

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Chester, R. (1986). The Marine Mineral Aerosol. In: Buat-Ménard, P. (eds) The Role of Air-Sea Exchange in Geochemical Cycling. NATO ASI Series, vol 185. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4738-2_17

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