The speed of sedimentation, vertical flow of matter, and the absolute mass of precipitation in the shelf region of the Russian Arctic

  • A. N. Novigatsky Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences
  • A. A. Klyuvitkin Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences
  • A. P. Lisitzin Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences
DOI 10.29006/1564-2291.JOR-2018.46(2).12
Keywords Vertical sediment fluxes, sedimentation traps, Arctic Ocean, Arctic shelf

Abstract

A new approach has been applied in the study of marine sedimentation using the scattered sedimentary material of the water column obtained by means of sediment traps (vertical sediment fluxes), in comparison with the surface layer of bottom sediments (absolute masses). This opens the possibility in situ (through sediment fluxes in the water column) to study modern sedimentation in the surface layers of sediments, and at the current technological level understand the relationship of sedimentary processes with the natural environment and climate. Opportunity to solve the inverse problem - on the velocities (or absolute masses) of precipitation is restored to restore the fluxes of matter and chemical elements in the seas of the geological past.

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Published
2018-11-19
Issue
Vol 46 No 2 (2018): Journal of Oceanological Research
Section
Marine geology, geophysics and geochemistry

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