A comparison of moored and free-drifting sediment traps of two different designs

Authors

Nick Staresinic, Centre des faibles radioactivités, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette France
Klaus von Bröckel, Institut für Meereskunde an der Universität Kiel, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, D-2300 Kiel West Germany
Nenad Smodlaka, Institut "Rudjer Boskovic", Centar za istrazivanje mora, 52210 Rovinj, Jugoslavija
C. Hovey Clifford, Woods Hold Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543 U.S.A.

Abstract

The Kiel conical sediment trap and a 3:1 right cylinder were simultaneously deployed in both free-drifting and moored modes on four separate occasions over the Peruvian shelf in order to compare downward flux measurements derived from each….

Recommended Citation

Staresinic, Nick, Klaus von Bröckel, Nenad Smodlaka, and C. H. Clifford. 1982. "A comparison of moored and free-drifting sediment traps of two different designs." Journal of Marine Research 40, (1). https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/journal_of_marine_research/1584