Region | Oceanic Location (Relative Accumulation Rates of Fe and S) | Major Nutrient Sources | |
Desert (Fe) | Volcano (Number) (S) | ||
HNLC | 1) Southern Ocean 2) Equatorial Pacific 3) Subarctic Pacific ( , ) ( ) | 1) Austalian/Patagonian/ Kalahari/Antarctic Polar 2) Gobi/Atacama 3) Gobi | 1) Erebus (Antarctica) (19)/ Huaynaputina (Peru) (29)/ Hudson (Chile) (137) 2) Huaynaputina (Peru) (29)/ Hudson (Chile) (137)/ Cotopaxi (Ecuador)(43) Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) (12) 3) Aleutian (40)/ Augustine (USA) (15)/ Kamchatka (Russia)(29) |
LNLC | 1) Ryu Kyu/Izu-Bonin Arc 2) Hawaii 3) western North Pacific Subtropical Gyre/Guam 4) Iceland ( , ) ( ) | 1) Gobi 2) (Gobi) 3) (Gobi) 4) Highlands of volcanic desert | 1) Japan (108) 2) Hawaii (15) 3) Anatahan (USA) 4) Iceland (130) |
HNHC | Benguela upwelling system ( , ) ( ) | Kalahari, Namib | None active but extinct; Angola(0), Namibia (1), South Africa (4) |
LNHC | 1) Pacific coast of Mexico 2) Northeast Pacific 3) Northwest Pacific 4) Northeastern Canada 5) Peruvian coast 6) New Zealand 7) Southern Africa 8) The Antarctic ( , ) ( ) | 1) Chihuahuan, Sonoran, Mojave 2) Gobi, Great Basin 3) Gobi 4) Arctic, Sahara 5) Patagonian, Atacama 6) Great Victoria, Great Sandy, Gibson, Simpson 7) Kalahari, Namib 8) Antarctic, Great Victoria, Great Sandy, Gibson, Simpson, Patagonian, Atacama, Kalahari, Namib | 1) Barcena, Socorro and 9 others 2) Augustine (15), Kasatochi, Redoubt (13) Pavlof (40), Cleveland (19) 3) Hokkaido (17), Honshu (46), 4) Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland Seamounts, Fogo Seamounts 5) Peru (29) and Chile (137) 6) White Island, Kermadec Islands 7) Madagascar (5), Mozambique (1), Tanzania (22), South Africa (4) 8) Erebus (19) |