Burial of organic carbon and pyrite sulfur in the modern ocean; its geochemical and environmental significance.
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On longer geological time scales, deposition, burial and subduction of organic carbon within marine sediment in plate subduction margins can play a pivotal role in the long-term carbon cycle, influencing atmospheric CO2 amounts over millions of years.
“Moreover, on longer geological time scales, the deposition, burial and subduction of OC within marine sediment in plate subduction margins can play a pivotal role in the long-term carbon cycle, influencing atmospheric CO2 amounts over millions of years (Berner, 1982; Burdige, 2007; Clift, 2017).”
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Jørgensen, S. L., Hannisdal, B., Lanzén, A., Baumberger, T., Flesland, K., Fonseca, R., Øvreås, L., Steen, I. H., Thorseth, I. H., Pedersen, R. B., et al. (2012) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1207574109 · Cited by 315 · see citing works
“The microbial activity in this habitat has a profound impact on the global carbon cycle through the remineralization of sedimentary organic carbon, thus ultimately regulating the oxygen level of the atmosphere (3).”
BackgroundPhanerozoic atmospheric oxygen: New results using the GEOCARBSULF model
Berner, R. (2009) · American Journal of Science · doi:10.2475/07.2009.03 · Cited by 300 · see citing works
“Updating of the carbon isotopic data for the Permo-Carboniferous is of great importance to GEOCARBSULF modeling because it is during this time that the largest excursion of atmospheric O2 from the present value has been calculated (for example, Berner, 2006a). The difference in the carbon isotopic composition between…”
BackgroundSelf-citationA marine biogeochemical perspective on black shale deposition
Piper, D. Z., & Calvert, S. (2009) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.03.001 · Cited by 322 · see citing works
Michalopoulos, P., & Aller, R. C. (2004) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2003.07.018 · Cited by 305 · see citing works
Inputs, losses and transformations of nitrogen and phosphorus in the pelagic North Atlantic Ocean
Michaels, A. F., Olson, D. B., Sarmiento, J. L., et al. (1996) · Biogeochemistry · doi:10.1007/bf02179827 · Cited by 305 · see citing works
Lin, S., Hsieh, I. C., Huang, K.-M., et al. (2002) · Chemical Geology · doi:10.1016/s0009-2541(01)00331-x · Cited by 301 · see citing works
“…the East China Sea continental shelf sediments is lower than those observed in other shelf and delta Žsediments, e.g. the Amazon shelf and delta 0.6" .0.1%, Aller et al., 1986 , the Mississippi shelf and Ž .delta 0.71"0.27%, Lin and Morse, 1991 , and the Ž .world shelf average 0.75%, Berner, 1982 .”
BackgroundInfluentialBlack carbon in marine sediments
Middelburg, J. J., Nieuwenhuize, J., & van Breugel, P. (1999) · Marine Chemistry · doi:10.1016/s0304-4203(99)00005-5 · Cited by 300 · see citing works
“Berner, 1982; Middelburg et al., 1997 .”
Lee, C. (1992) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/0016-7037(92)90308-6 · Cited by 299 · see citing works
Arthur, M., Dean, W., & Schlanger, S. O. (2013) · Geophysical monograph · doi:10.1029/gm032p0504 · Cited by 155 · see citing works
Lignin dimers: Structures, distribution, and potential geochemical applications
Goñi, M. A., & Hedges, J. I. (1992) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/0016-7037(92)90014-a · Cited by 296 · see citing works
A sediment and organic carbon budget for the Canadian Beaufort Shelf
Macdonald, R. W., Solomon, S., Cranston, R. E., et al. (1998) · Marine Geology · doi:10.1016/s0025-3227(97)00106-0 · Cited by 287 · see citing works
“…shelves and margins are the most important locations in the ocean for sequestering sediments and for recycling and sequestering organic carbon (Berner, 1982; Jahnke et al., 1990; GESAMP, 1992; Smith and Hollibaugh, 1993; Romankevich, 1994) and the ‘burndown’ of carbon in marine sediments…”
BackgroundPerspectives in Ecological Theory
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Fjords as Aquatic Critical Zones (ACZs)
Bianchi, T. S., Arndt, S., Austin, W. E. N., Benn, D. I., Bertrand, S., Cui, X., Faust, J. C., Koziorowska-Makuch, K., Moy, C. M., Savage, C., et al. (2020) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103145 · Cited by 269 · see citing works
“An 80% deep burial efficiency was chosen by Smith et al. (2015) for comparison with Berner (1982) and Hedges and Keil (1995), yet OC burial efficiencies in fjords have been found to vary, with estimated values ranging from 28% to 90% (Koziorowska et al., 2018; Zaborska et al., 2018).”
MethodWallmann, K. (2001) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/s0016-7037(01)00638-x · Cited by 279 · see citing works
Remineralization rates, recycling, and storage of carbon in Amazon shelf sediments
Aller, R. C., Blair, N. E., Xia, Q., & Rude, P. D. (1996) · Continental Shelf Research · doi:10.1016/0278-4343(95)00046-1 · Cited by 273 · see citing works
Global biogeochemical cycle of vanadium
Schlesinger, W. H., Klein, E. M., & Vengosh, A. (2017) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1715500114 · Cited by 280 · see citing works
Lyons, T. W. (1997) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/s0016-7037(97)00174-9 · Cited by 277 · see citing works
Goñi, M. A., Yunker, M. B., Macdonald, R. W., & Eglinton, T. I. (2004) · Marine Chemistry · doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2004.08.001 · Cited by 278 · see citing works
“River-dominated shelves are some of the most important sites of organic carbon (OC) burial in marine environments (Berner, 1982; Hedges and Keil, 1995; Liu et al., 2000).”
BackgroundPyrite and organic matter in Phanerozoic normal marine shales
Raiswell, R., & Berner, R. A. (1986) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/0016-7037(86)90252-8 · Cited by 273 · see citing works
Self-citationBianchi, T. S., Mitra, S., & McKee, B. A. (2002) · Marine Chemistry · doi:10.1016/s0304-4203(01)00088-3 · Cited by 266 · see citing works
“Despite the importance of sedimentary carbon, the fate of organic matter in continental shelf environments is not completely understood (Berner, 1982; Hedges and Keil, 1995).”
BackgroundSulphate reduction, organic matter decomposition and pyrite formation
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Self-citationOrganic matter mineralization in marine systems
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- Authors
- Berner, R. A.
- Corresponding author
- Berner, R. A.
- Venue
- American Journal of Science
- Publisher
- American Journal of Science (AJS)
- Published
- 1982-04-01
- Volume
- 282
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 451-473
- ISSN
- 0002-9599 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2049621326
- Cited by
- 1,200
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 14.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- American Journal of Science (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Keywords
- organic carbon burial, pyrite sulfur, marine sediment, marine geochemistry, marine environment, sulfur cycling
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