The Deep sea bed : its physics, chemistry and biology
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The Deep sea bed : its physics, chemistry and biology
（Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A. v. 331）
Royal Society, 1990
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Proceedings of a Royal Society discussion meeting held on 5 and 6 April 1989
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The deep ocean floor is the largest, most remote and therefore least studied environment on earth. In adddition to its inherent interest, as a sink for global carbon it may have an important role in modifying or responding to the predicted climatic changes of the coming decades. Until recently, the deep seas was thought to be a region of great stability and uniformity, but we now realise that it is the site of dynamic physics, chemistry and biology. The papers in this volume, presented at a Royal Society Discussion Meeting in April 1989, summarize the state-of-the-art in many of these areas and provide a starting point for future studies.
Table of Contents
- Physical processes in the benthic boundary layer, K.J.Richards
- life in the benthic boundary layer - connections to the mid-water and sea floor, M.V.Angel
- calcium carbonate preservation in the ocean, S.R.Emerson and D.Archer
- the rate of dissolution of calcium carbonate form the surface of deep-ocean turbidite sediments, T.R.S.Wilson and Helen E.Wallace
- bioturbation and manganese cycling in hemipelagic sediments, R.C.Aller
- oxygen in pore waters of deep-sea sediments, M.M.Rutgers Van der Loeff
- deep-sea deposit-feeding strategies suggested by environmental and feeding constraints, P.A.Jumars et al
- the potential role of large, fast-sinking particles in clearing nepheloid layers, P.S.Hill and A.R.M.Nowell
- responses by benthic organisms to inputs of organic material to the ocean floor - a review, A.J.Gooday and Carol M.Turley
- bacterial biomass and activity in deep sediment layers from the Peru margin, R.J.Parkes et al
- influence of deep-sea benthic processes on atmospheric CO2, E.T.Sundquist
- turbulent suspension of sediments in the deep sea, T.F.Gross and A.R.M.Nowell
- the variability of mixing at the continental slope, S.A.Thorpe et al.
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