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| Titel |
Saharan dust from a marine perspective: sediment-trap time series off Mauritania |
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Jan-Berend Stuut, Michelle van der Does, Gerhard Fischer |
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EGU General Assembly 2013
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Englisch
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| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 15 (2013) |
| Datensatznummer |
250080627
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The particle size of mineral dust is often used as a tool to reconstruct paleoenvironmental conditions in the source of the dust. Both in on-land (loess), lacustrine, and in marine archives, the size of dust deposits is considered a proxy for paleo-wind intensity. However, next to wind strength, the particle size of aeolian deposits is also influenced by various other parameters such as source-to-sink distance, altitude at which the particles have been transported, and various other environmental conditions in the sources of the dust. To verify if we can quantify a relationship between the size of mineral dust particles and prevailing environmental conditions, we study "modern" dust. Here we present grain-size distributions of Saharan dust that was collected in a marine sediment trap, which is situated off Cape Blanc, ~400 km offshore the Mauritanian coast. In this trap, dust is collected that is sinking through the water column to the ocean floor. The temporal resolution of the trap is 1-2 weeks. The time series was started in the late 1980's and is still being continued. Grain-size distributions of the dust particles collected from the water column will be compared with those sampled from the atmosphere. |
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