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In comparison with the open oceans, the estuaries and shallow coastal seas (continental shelf regions) are very productive and contribute most of the world catch of fin-fish and shell-fish. These coastal regions are the principal mixing zones where river-water, atmospheric dust and rain are mixed with salty water to form shelf-water and eventually oceanic water. The concentration of inorganic elements in shelf-water and their impact on marine organisms depend on the chemical species that are formed. This in turn depends on their tendency to interact with other inorganic and organic material in solution, with suspended inanimate material and with the bottom sediment of the sea-bed. Regional circulation such as tides, winds and water upwelling, as well as uptake into marine life forms and mineralising processes determine the amounts of the inorganic elements from the land run-off that are either trapped in the coastal boundary zone or ultimately injected into the open ocean.
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Grant, P.T., Sargent, J.R. (1980). Trace Elements in the Marine Environment. In: Blaxter, K. (eds) Food Chains and Human Nutrition. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7336-0_13
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