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Deep ocean iron balance

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Dissolved iron is mysteriously pervasive in deep ocean hydrothermal plumes. An analysis of gas, metals and particles from a 4,000 km plume transect suggests that dissolved iron is maintained by rapid and reversible exchanges with sinking particles.

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Figure 1: The dynamic balance of iron dispersed in a hydrothermal plume.

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  1. William B. Homoky is in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3AN, UK,

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Homoky, W. Deep ocean iron balance. Nature Geosci 10, 162–163 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2908

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