GEOTRACES: Accelerating research on the marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes

RF Anderson - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes (TEIs) constitute an active
area of oceanographic research due to their role as essential nutrients for marine organisms …

The global biogeochemical cycle of the rare earth elements

V Hatje, J Schijf, KH Johannesson… - Global …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
To improve our understanding and guide future studies and applications, we review the
biogeochemistry of the rare earth elements (REE). The REEs, which form a chemically …

The sedimentary flux of dissolved rare earth elements to the ocean

AN Abbott, BA Haley, J McManus… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
We determined pore fluid rare earth element (REE) concentrations in near-surface
sediments retrieved from the continental margin off Oregon and California (USA). These …

Neodymium in the oceans: a global database, a regional comparison and implications for palaeoceanographic research

T van de Flierdt, AM Griffiths… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The neodymium (Nd) isotopic composition of seawater has been used extensively to
reconstruct ocean circulation on a variety of time scales. However, dissolved neodymium …

Rapid neodymium release to marine waters from lithogenic sediments in the Amazon estuary

TCC Rousseau, JE Sonke, J Chmeleff… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Rare earth element (REE) concentrations and neodymium isotopic composition (ɛNd) are
tracers for ocean circulation and biogeochemistry. Although models suggest that REE …

Are clay minerals the primary control on the oceanic rare earth element budget?

AN Abbott, S Löhr, M Trethewy - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The rare earth elements (REEs) are an important tool for understanding biogeochemical
cycling and sedimentary processes in the global ocean. However, ambiguities in the marine …

[HTML][HTML] Neodymium isotopic composition and concentration in the western North Atlantic Ocean: Results from the GEOTRACES GA02 section

M Lambelet, T Van De Flierdt, K Crocket… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
The neodymium (Nd) isotopic composition of seawater is commonly used as a proxy to study
past changes in the thermohaline circulation. The modern database for such reconstructions …

The large-scale evolution of neodymium isotopic composition in the global modern and Holocene ocean revealed from seawater and archive data

K Tachikawa, T Arsouze, G Bayon, A Bory, C Colin… - Chemical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Neodymium isotopic compositions (143 Nd/144 Nd or ε Nd) have been used as a
tracer of water masses and lithogenic inputs to the ocean. To further evaluate the …

Dissolved rare earth elements in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre: Lithogenic sources and water mass mixing control

A Cao, Q Liu, J Zhang, AM Shiller, Y Cai… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract In the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, which is one of the largest oligotrophic
regions, there is a lack of information regarding the sources and transport of trace metals …

Rare earth elements (REEs) in the tropical South Atlantic and quantitative deconvolution of their non-conservative behavior

XY Zheng, Y Plancherel, MA Saito, PM Scott… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
This study presents new concentration measurements of dissolved rare earth elements
(dREEs) along a full-depth east–west section across the tropical South Atlantic (∼ 12° S) …