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Copper depth profiles

Pacific Ocean 32o 41N, 144o 59W

Atlantic Ocean (34o 06N, 66o 07W

Depth (m)

Cu (nmol/kg)

Depth (m)

Cu (nmol/kg)

0

0.54

0

1.15

75

0.69

100

185

0.91

136

1.26

375

1.34

375

1.28

595

1.9

597

1.15

780

1.95

715

1.34

985

2.05

1036

1.52

1505

2.09

1441

1.62

2025

3.18

2030

1.7

2570

3.46

2386

2.06

3055

4

2962

2.03

3533

4.26

4000

4.77

4635

4.85

4875

5.34

Bruland, K. W. 1980. Oceanographic distributions of cadmium, zinc, nickel and copper

in the North Pacific. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 47, 176-198.

Bruland, K. W. and R. P. Franks. 1983. Mn, Ni, Cu, Zn and Cd in the western North Atlantic. In,

Trace Metals in Seawater, C. S. Wong, E. Boyle, K. W. Bruland, J. D. Burton and E. D. Goldberg,

eds., Plenum, 395-414.