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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

  1. 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


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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