A BROWNIAN-PUMPING MODEL FOR OCEANIC TRACE-METAL SCAVENGING - EVIDENCE FROM TH-ISOTOPES Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Two observed characteristics of Th isotope and stable metal sorption in natural aquatic systems are seemingly at odds with physico-chemical adsorption theory: 1) characteristic sorption times of days to weeks and 2) Kds which are inversely related in magnitude to particle concentrations. Proposes that these metal sorption characteristics have the same underlying physical process in common: the coagulation of colloidal (nonfilterable) particles onto larger (filterable) particles. -from Authors

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF MARINE RESEARCH

author list (cited authors)

  • HONEYMAN, B. D., & SANTSCHI, P. H.

citation count

  • 348

complete list of authors

  • HONEYMAN, BD||SANTSCHI, PH

publication date

  • November 1989