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Nature Geoscience 1, 576 - 578 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ngeo287
Subject Category: Palaeoclimate and palaeoceanography
Palaeoceanography: Bloom without fertilizer
Mitchell Lyle1
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Mitchell Lyle is at the Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University TAMU 3146 College Station, Texas 77840-3146, USA.
e-mail: mlyle@ocean.tamu.edu
Abstract
Iron has been shown to stimulate productivity in certain areas of the modern ocean. However, it was not the primary driver of carbon burial in the equatorial Pacific Ocean for the past 10 million years.
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