Quantifying archaeal community autotrophy in the mesopelagic ocean using natural radiocarbon

AE Ingalls, SR Shah, RL Hansman… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
An ammonia-oxidizing, carbon-fixing archaeon, Candidatus “Nitrosopumilus maritimus,”
recently was isolated from a salt-water aquarium, definitively confirming that …

Sedimentary Hydrocarbons

JJ Brocks, RE Summons - Biogeochemistry, 2005 - books.google.com
Sedimentary Hydrocarbons Page 103 8.03 Sedimentary Hydrocarbons, Biomarkers for
Early Life JJ Brocks Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA and RE Summons …

Origins of lipid biomarkers in Santa Monica Basin surface sediment: a case study using compound-specific Δ14C analysis

A Pearson, AP McNichol, BC Benitez-Nelson… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2001 - Elsevier
Compound-specific Δ14C values are reported for 31 different lipid biomarker molecules
obtained from Santa Monica Basin and Santa Barbara Basin surface sediments. These …

Hydrogen isotope ratios of individual lipids in lake sediments as novel tracers of climatic and environmental change: a surface sediment test

Y Huang, B Shuman, Y Wang, T Webb - Journal of Paleolimnology, 2004 - Springer
We determined hydrogen isotope ratios of modern lake-waters and individual lipids from
surface sediments of 36 lakes in the eastern North America. The lakes selected lie on two …

Sterols in red and green algae: quantification, phylogeny, and relevance for the interpretation of geologic steranes

RB Kodner, A Pearson, RE Summons, AH Knoll - Geobiology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Steroids, a class of triterpenoid lipids with high preservation potential, are widely distributed
in sedimentary rocks. All eukaryotes have a physiological requirement for these molecules …

The origin of n-alkanes in Santa Monica Basin surface sediment: a model based on compound-specific Δ14C and δ13C data

A Pearson, TI Eglinton - Organic Geochemistry, 2000 - Elsevier
Δ14C and δ13C values were measured for individual long-chain n-alkanes (C24–33) from
Santa Monica Basin sediments. The data were then simulated using a three-component …

Disentangling the History of Deep Ocean Disposal for DDT and Other Industrial Waste Off Southern California

JT Schmidt, MSC Wu, HE Kittner, JS Arey… - … science & technology, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ocean disposal of industrial waste from technical DDT [mainly 1, 1′-(2, 2, 2-trichloroethane-
1, 1-diyl) bis (4-chlorobenzene), or 4, 4′-DDT] manufacture occurred historically in the …

Composition, age, and provenance of organic matter in NW African dust over the Atlantic Ocean

TI Eglinton, G Eglinton, L Dupont… - Geochemistry …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Eolian dust deposited on a meteorology buoy over the boreal winter and spring of
1992/1993 in the Northeast Atlantic off Northwest Africa (18° N, 22° W) afforded sufficient …

Asynchronous alkenone and foraminifera records from the Benguela Upwelling System

G Mollenhauer, TI Eglinton, N Ohkouchi… - … et cosmochimica acta, 2003 - Elsevier
Radiocarbon stratigraphy is an essential tool for high resolution paleoceanographic studies.
Age models based on radiocarbon ages of foraminifera are commonly applied to a wide …

Origins of archaeal tetraether lipids in sediments: Insights from radiocarbon analysis

SR Shah, G Mollenhauer, N Ohkouchi… - … et cosmochimica Acta, 2008 - Elsevier
Understanding the supply and preservation of glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraethers
(GDGTs) in marine sediments helps inform their use in paleoceanography. Compound …