Fallout radionuclides in the Pacific Ocean: Vertical and horizontal distributions, largely from GEOSECS stations

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Sep 1980

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Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 49, Issue 2, p. 411-434.

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From GEOSECS stations, largely, the 1974 distributions of Pu and of 137Cs are described in the Pacific Ocean north of about 20°S latitude. Changes in some of these distributions are described from 1978 cruises by the authors.
The Pacific exhibited, everywhere, a shallow subsurface layer of Pu-rich water with its concentration maximum at about 465 m in 1974; over a large portion of the central North Pacific a second layer of Pu-labelled water, less concentrated than the shallow layer, lay just above the bottom. Similar features were not observed in the case of 137Cs.
The inventories of both Pu and 137Cs in the water column at most 1974 stations are substantially greater than those to be expected from world-wide fallout alone; these inventory excesses appear to be attributable to close-in fallout, but only if the ratio Pu/137Cs in this source was much higher than in world-wide fallout. The North Pacific mean ratio of the inventories is 2.2 times that observed in world-wide fallout.
Resolubilization of Pu both from sinking particles and from sediments explains peculiarities of its depth distributions.
There is little evidence for tracer movement by sliding downward along density surfaces; 137Cs appears to have moved to depth by downmixing at the edge of the Kuroshio, and then moved horizontally and upward along σt contours. The shallow Pu-rich layer shows no coordination with density, salinity or O2 isopleths. The deep Pu-rich layer is restricted to a narrow range of O2 concentrations that confirm its origin in the Aleutian Trench and rapid spread southward and laterally. Near-bottom circulation processes have been much more active than here-to-fore described.

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