Macroflocs: Production of Marine Snow in the Laboratory
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Inter-Research Science Center in Marine Ecology Progress Series
- Vol. 3 (1) , 19-24
- https://doi.org/10.3354/meps003019
Abstract
Large suspended aggregates similar to marine snow were obtained by placing natural and artificially produced particulate matter in a vertical recirculating tube with an upward flowing turbulent current. At flow rates as high as 0.25 cm s-1 the seawater suspension settled out as macroflocs which incorporated all the components in suspension. The size and shape of the particles produced by physiochemical flocculation varied with flow rate and floc composition.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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