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Mineral Aerosol over and Deposition to the Pacific Ocean

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Oceanic and Anthropogenic Controls of Life in the Pacific Ocean

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Mineral particles, which are mainly produced by the weathering of the continental crust, are important for geochemical cycles in the atmosphere and in the oceans. These particles have relatively short residence times in both atmosphere and hydrosphere, and therefore their concentrations are sensitive to changes in weather, climate, perturbations by human’s activities, etc. In addition, many trace metals are associated with aluminosilicates (mineral or dust particles), and therefore understanding the behaviour of mineral particles is important because the biogeochemical cycling of at least a dozen of the chemical elements are linked to the transport and fluxes of dust (Ran, 1976; Chester, 1986).

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Uematsu, M. (1992). Mineral Aerosol over and Deposition to the Pacific Ocean. In: Ilyichev, V.I., Anikiev, V.V. (eds) Oceanic and Anthropogenic Controls of Life in the Pacific Ocean. The GeoJournal Library, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2773-8_4

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