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THE SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF PARTICLES IN THE OCEAN 1
Author(s) -
Sheldon R. W.,
Prakash A.,
Sutcliffe W. H.
Publication year - 1972
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.1972.17.3.0327
Subject(s) - range (aeronautics) , particle size , particle size distribution , particle (ecology) , oceanography , environmental science , atmospheric sciences , mineralogy , geology , materials science , paleontology , composite material
Frequency distributions of particle size between sizes of about 1 and 100 µ are given for both surface and deep water of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The form of the size spectra varies predictably both geographically and with depth. A hypothesis is presented to show that, to a first approximation, roughly equal concentrations of material occur at all particle sizes within the range from 1 µ to about 10 8 µ , i.e. from bacteria to whales.
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