Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the planktonic foraminifera as tracers of past
oceanic environments. Paleoceanography has always been closely connected with the …

Particle settling velocity is a fundamental parameter in sedimentology and engineering, and
has accordingly received much attention in the literature. Grain properties, such as shape …

During the past decade data from a variety of sources have been obtained which show
conclusively that the relatively rare, large particles sinking through the water column are …

Particulate organic carbon (POC) is vertically transported to the oceanic interior by
aggregates and their ballasts, mainly CaCO3 and biogenic opal, with a smaller role for …

The sea ice does not only determine the ecology of ice biota, but it also influences the
pelagic systems under the ice cover and at ice edges. In this paper, new estimates of Arctic …

The vertical flux and sedimentation rate of planktic foraminiferal tests are quantified and a
global planktic foraminiferal CaCO3 budget is presented. Test and calcite flux rates are …

Planktic foraminifers are marine protozoans with calcareous Shells and chambered tests.
They first appeared in the mid-Jurassic and spread since the mid-Cretaceous over all the …

Twenty-four time-series, moored sediment traps were deployed between 2/2/92 and 1/27/93
along 140° W at 9° N, 5° N, 2° N, 0°, 2° S, 5° S and 12° S at water depths of approximately …

In order to clarify the annual quality, quantity and export processes of biogenic particles from
the euphotic zone to the deep ocean interior, an array of automated time-series sediment …

Characteristics of statistical funnels above moored deep-ocean sediment traps at the
Oceanic Flux Program (OFP) site in the Sargasso Sea were determined by Lagrangian …