Abstract
The oceans are the last part of the hydrological cycle and here trace metals are removed from the hydrological cycle and incorporated in the sediments. There they spend several hundred million of years before taking part in the next hydrological cycle.
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Salomons, W., Förstner, U. (1984). Metals in the Ocean. In: Metals in the Hydrocycle. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69325-0_7
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