| Acronym | Meaning |
| AOU | Apparent Oxygen Utilization |
| EM | Enriched Mantle |
| LINE | Long Interspersed Element |
| BPDA | Born Point Dipole Approximation |
| IGPP | Institute Of Geophysics And Planetary Physics |
| TOX | Total Organic Halide |
| DCA | Detrended Correspondence Ordination Analysis |
| TART | Tip-angle Reduced T1 Imaging |
| PFZ | Polar Frontal Zone |
| RPLC | Reversed-phase Liquid Chromatography |