Benthic cycling of silicon in Arctic and subarctic shelf sediments: insights from silicon isotopes

Katharine R Hendry1, Hong Chin Ng1, James Ward2, Felipe Sales de Freitas2, Rebecca A Pickering3,4, Jeffrey W Krause3,4, Sian F Henley5, Sandra Arndt6, Johan Faust7, Allyson Tessin8 and Christian März7, (1)University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (2)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, (3)Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL, United States, (4)University of South Alabama, Marine Sciences, Mobile, AL, United States, (5)University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (6)Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussel, Belgium, (7)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (8)University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, United States