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| Monnin, C.; Jeandel, C.; Cattaldo, T.; Dehairs, F.A.. |
| This paper addresses the question of the eventual control of barium concentration in seawater by an equilibrium with barite. For this, we have used a new thermodynamic model to compute the barite saturation index of ocean waters, mainly from GEOSECS data. Our results show that equilibrium between barite and seawater is reached in a number of places: cold surface waters of the Southern Ocean, waters at intermediate depths (2000-3500 m) in the Pacific, deep waters (2000-3500 m) of the Gulf of Bengal. The only samples for which a slight barite supersaturation is found are the surface waters at GEOSECS station G89 in the Weddell Gyre. Besides these locations, the rest of the world's oceans is undersaturated, as was established by Church and Wolgemuth [Church,... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Aqueous solutions; Oceanography; Oceans; Saturation; Thermodynamics. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://www.vliz.be/nl/open-marien-archief?module=ref&refid=10260 |
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