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MICROLAYER COLLECTION FROM THE SEA SURFACE: A NEW METHOD AND INITIAL RESULTS 1
Author(s) -
Harvey George W.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
limnology and oceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1939-5590
pISSN - 0024-3590
DOI - 10.4319/lo.1966.11.4.0608
Subject(s) - thin layer , surface layer , layer (electronics) , environmental chemistry , chlorophyll a , pigment , surface (topology) , chlorophyll , environmental science , thin layer chromatography , mineralogy , oceanography , geology , chemistry , chromatography , organic chemistry , biochemistry , geometry , mathematics
A newly constructed collecting device can remove large quantities of a thin layer (approximately 60 µ thick) from the sea surface. Samples obtained by means of this collector indicate larger amounts of organic materials in the thin surface layer of the sea than in the water at a depth of 10 cm. These organic materials include living nannoplankton organisms, structural components of disintegrated organisms, surface‐active substances, chlorophyll, and carotenoid pigments.