The fate of terrestrial organic carbon in the marine environment

NE Blair, RC Aller - Annual review of marine science, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Understanding the fate of terrestrial organic carbon (C org) delivered to oceans by rivers is
critical for constraining models of biogeochemical cycling and Earth surface evolution. C org …

Preservation of organic matter in marine sediments: controls, mechanisms, and an imbalance in sediment organic carbon budgets?

DJ Burdige - Chemical reviews, 2007 - ACS Publications
The burial of organic matter (OM) in marine sediments represents the major link between
“active” surface pools of carbon in the oceans, atmosphere, on land, and in marine …

Centers of organic carbon burial and oxidation at the land-ocean interface

TS Bianchi, X Cui, NE Blair, DJ Burdige, TI Eglinton… - Organic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Continental margin systems collectively receive and store vast amounts of organic carbon
(OC) derived from primary productivity both on land and in the ocean, thereby playing a …

Carbonate removal from coastal sediments for the determination of organic carbon and its isotopic signatures, δ13C and Δ14C: comparison of fumigation and direct …

T Komada, MR Anderson… - Limnology and …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Acidification of a solid sample to separate inorganic carbon (IC) from organic carbon (OC) is
a widely encountered procedure in limnology and oceanography. Traditionally, OC was …

Riverine particulate organic carbon from an active mountain belt: Importance of landslides

RG Hilton, A Galy, N Hovius - Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the routing and transfer of particulate organic carbon (POC) from the western
Southern Alps, New Zealand, using organic carbon (Corg) and nitrogen (Norg) …

Strong sorption of phenanthrene by condensed organic matter in soils and sediments

Y Ran, K Sun, Y Yang, B Xing… - Environmental Science & …, 2007 - ACS Publications
The nonhydrolyzable carbon (NHC) and black carbon (BC) in three contaminated soils and
seven sediments from the Pearl River Delta and Estuary, China, were isolated upon …

The isotopic composition of particulate organic carbon in mountain rivers of Taiwan

RG Hilton, A Galy, N Hovius, MJ Horng… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2010 - Elsevier
Small rivers draining mountain islands are important in the transfer of terrestrial particulate
organic carbon (POC) to the oceans. This input has implications for the geochemical …

[PDF][PDF] The weathering of sedimentary organic matter as a control on atmospheric O2: II. Theoretical modeling

EW Bolton, RA Berner, ST Petsch - American Journal of Science, 2006 - ajsonline.org
To investigate the weathering of sedimentary organic matter and its role in regulating
atmospheric oxygen, a theoretical modeling study is presented that addresses the …

Chemical characteristics of particulate organic matter from a small, mountainous river system in the Oregon Coast Range, USA

JA Hatten, MA Goñi, RA Wheatcroft - Biogeochemistry, 2012 - Springer
To better understand the transfer of particulate organic matter (POM) by small mountainous
river systems (SMRS) to the ocean, we measured the concentration and composition of …

Runoff-driven export of particulate organic carbon from soil in temperate forested uplands

JC Smith, A Galy, N Hovius, AM Tye… - Earth and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
We characterise the sources, pathways and export fluxes of particulate organic carbon
(POC) in a headwater catchment in the Swiss Alps, where suspended sediment has a mean …