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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-3831-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-3831-2015
Research article
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23 Jun 2015
Research article |  | 23 Jun 2015

Carbon export in the naturally iron-fertilized Kerguelen area of the Southern Ocean based on the 234Th approach

F. Planchon, D. Ballas, A.-J. Cavagna, A. R. Bowie, D. Davies, T. Trull, E. C. Laurenceau-Cornec, P. Van Der Merwe, and F. Dehairs

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