Articles | Volume 11, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-1007-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-1007-2014
Research article
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21 Feb 2014
Research article |  | 21 Feb 2014

Quantification of the lithogenic carbon pump following a simulated dust-deposition event in large mesocosms

M. Bressac, C. Guieu, D. Doxaran, F. Bourrin, K. Desboeufs, N. Leblond, and C. Ridame

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