The sequential extraction method SEDEX (sedimentary extraction) modificated by ANDERSON & DELANEY(2000) has been used to quantify separately four sedimentary phosphorus reservoirs in sediments of the gulf of Paria and thevenezuelan atlantic coast: adsorbed or labile plus P-associated to oxides (F1), P-authigenic (F2), P-detrital (F3) and P-organic(F4). The marine and continental origin of the sediments was determined by separation of detrital apatite (continental) andcarbonate fluorapatit...