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Articles | Volume 16, issue 1
Articles | Volume 16, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-221-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-221-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 1
Research article
 | 
14 Feb 2020
Research article |  | 14 Feb 2020

Decrease in 230Th in the Amundsen Basin since 2007: far-field effect of increased scavenging on the shelf?

Ole Valk, Michiel M. Rutgers van der Loeff, Walter Geibert, Sandra Gdaniec, S. Bradley Moran, Kate Lepore, Robert Lawrence Edwards, Yanbin Lu, Viena Puigcorbé, Nuria Casacuberta, Ronja Paffrath, William Smethie, and Matthieu Roy-Barman

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Thorium isotopes in the water column in Amundsen Basin during POLARSTERN cruises PS70 (ARK-XXII/2) in 2007 and PS94 (ARK-XXIX/3) in 2015. O. Valk, M. M. Rutgers van der Loeff, W. Geibert, S. Gdaniec, S. B. Moran, K. Lepore, R. L. Edwards, Y. Lu, V. Puigcorbé, N. Casacuberta, R. Paffrath, W. Smethie, and M. Roy-Barman, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.908068

Thorium isotopes in the water column in Nansen Basin during POLARSTERN cruises PS70 (ARK-XXII/2) in 2007 and PS94 (ARK-XXIX/3) in 2015 O. Valk, M. M. Rutgers van der Loeff, and W. Geibert https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.893871

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After 2007 230Th decreased significantly in the central Amundsen Basin. This decrease is accompanied by a circulation change, indicated by changes in salinity. Ventilation of waters is most likely not the reason for the observed depletion in 230Th as atmospherically derived tracers do not reveal an increase in ventilation rate. It is suggested that these interior waters have undergone enhanced scavenging of Th during transit from Fram Strait and the Barents Sea to the central Amundsen Basin.
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