自生的
总有机碳
河口
生物地球化学循环
地质学
沉积物
海洋学
沉积岩
再矿化
碳循环
地球化学
环境化学
地貌学
生态系统
化学
生物
生态学
无机化学
氟化物
作者
Peng Yao,Bin Zhao,Thomas S. Bianchi,Zhigang Guo,Meixun Zhao,Jarosław Drelich,Huihui Pan,Jinpeng Wang,Tingting Zhang,Zhigang Yu
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.csr.2014.08.010
摘要
Knowledge of the fate of sedimentary organic carbon (SOC) in large-river delta-front estuaries (LDEs) is critical for understanding the global carbon cycle. In this study, remineralization of total organic carbon (TOC) in the Changjiang Estuary and adjacent East China Sea (ECS) shelf were investigated by combining sediment and pore water analyses. Distinctively low TOC to sediment surface area (TOC/SSA) loadings (<0.40 mg m−2) were observed mainly in the mud deposits comparable to tropical deltaic mobile muds or delta topset, indicating an inefficient SOC preservation. Anaerobic incubations showed that the net reaction rate of ΣCO2 in pore waters over the whole core (0–24 cm) of sediments in the Changjiang Estuary was 5.1 mmol m−2 d−1, and over the upper 15 cm was 9.3 mmol m−2 d−1. ΣCO2 in pore waters from incubated sediments decreased with time and the consumption rate in the lower layer of sediments was 4.2 mmol m−2 d−1, close to the consumption rate of major cations, especially calcium, indicating the precipitation of authigenic carbonates. Overall, remineralization of SOC in mobile-mud belts could play a critical role in the biogeochemical cycling and storage of OC, and other important biogenic elements in this highly dynamic LDE.
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