Authors present a comprehensive review of iron and iron isotope sources, internal cycling, and sinks in the ocean.
Feb / 10 / 2023
Iron Isotopes
Deep sea lithogenic weathering a source of iron colloids for the ocean
Homoky and co-workers determined the isotope composition of dissolved iron profiles in shallow surface sediments of the South Atlantic Uruguayan margin…
Mar / 28 / 2021
Oceanic Margins as sources of lithogenic particulate and dissolved iron in the North Pacific Ocean
Three GEOTRACES Japanese cruises on board the R/V Hakuho Maru allowed establishing basin-scale and full-depth sectional distributions of total dissolvable iron (tdFe), dissolved iron (dFe), and labile particulate iron (lpFe=tdFe […]
Mar / 10 / 2020
Unprecedented iron delivery from the Congo River margin to the South Atlantic Gyre
Radium isotopes are used to demonstrate that make the Congo the most significant riverine source of iron to the South Atlantic.
Jan / 30 / 2020
Labile particulate iron isotopic signatures trace hydrothermal and margin inputs down to the benthic layers in the Eastern Pacific Ocean
For the first time, labile and total particulate iron (pFe) isotopic signatures were measured along a full depth oceanographic section (more than 200 0.8-51 µm-sized particles) in the Eastern Pacific […]
Jun / 06 / 2018
What constrains the hydrothermal dissolved iron isotopic signatures?
Assessing the processes leading to dissolved iron (dFe) isotope fractionation in a hydrothermal plume is a key question, because it allows a better characterization of this specific source of dFe […]
Feb / 21 / 2017
Dissolved iron isotopes reveal that distinct processes are controlling this micronutrient distribution in the ocean
Abadie and co-workers propose new dissolved iron concentration and isotopic composition distributions (DFe and ICFe respectively) along the Bonus-Goodhope IPY section (GIPY4), in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. […]
Jan / 16 / 2017
An example of a fruitful international intercomparison
The reliability of the GEOTRACES data products including the eGEOTRACES Electronic Atlas is strongly related to the quality of the data acquired by the different laboratories contributing to this international effort. A […]
May / 19 / 2016
How iron isotopes offer a new window on the oceanic biogeochemical cycling of iron
Two process studies (2008 and 2012) designed to study temporal changes in the biogeochemical cycling of iron (Fe), provide in situ results for dissolved and particulate Fe (DFe and PFe) […]
Feb / 12 / 2015
Iron isotopes in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean: when the dissolved phases are heavier than the particulate ones
A detailed study of the dissolved and particulate iron (Fe) concentrations and isotopes off the Papua New Guinea coast is proposed. Regarding the sources, iron isotopic composition (δ56Fe) values reveal […]
Jan / 16 / 2015