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The distributions of dissolved trace elements in the oceans result from a complex series of biogeochemical processes. Historically, most models describing the cycles of these elements have been formed around high quality data for the distributions of the dissolved elements1. I report here a detailed vertical profile of particulate vanadium and estimate its particle-associated flux. This flux suggests a surface depletion of dissolved vanadium which is verified by the first detailed determinations of dissolved vanadium in several profiles from the Pacific Ocean.
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Collier, R. Particulate and dissolved vanadium in the North Pacific Ocean. Nature 309, 441–444 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1038/309441a0
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