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Burial of organic carbon and pyrite sulfur in the modern ocean; its geochemical and environmental significance.

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“To our knowledge, this represents the first independent pyrite burial flux estimate that does not rely on OC burial scaling factors 32 , global mass-balance box models 37 or the assumption of sulfur-cycle steady state 3,6 .”
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“Over geological timescales, the burial of biospheric OC acts as a carbon sink, consuming atmospheric CO 2 (Berner, 1982; France‐Lanord & Derry, 1997), whereas the exposure of carbonaceous rocks leads to the oxidation of petrogenic OC, functioning as a carbon source (Berner, 2004; Hilton & West,…”
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“The fluvial export and deposition of recently fixed POCbiosphere (such as from litter and surface soils) in the sedimentary basins are an important mechanism of atmospheric CO2 drawdown over millennial timescales (Berner, 1982; France-Lanord and Derry, 1997; Hilton and West, 2020).”
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Occurrence characteristics of authigenic pyrite in the deep-sea environment and its paleoceanographic implications based on core sediments from IODP Expedition 342 Site U1406
Lee, H., Jo, K., Baek, S., Kwon, K. D., Son, S., Lee, H. S., Gang, N.-G., & Kim, Y. (2024) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112535 · Cited by 4
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Sediment interstitial waters and diagenesis
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Decadal variations of total organic carbon production in the inner-shelf of the South China Sea and East China Sea
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Oxidation of pyrite during barite extraction
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Ostracoda and Paleoenvironment of Holocene-Raised Beach Sediment in Skarvsnes, East Antarctica
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“The TOC, TN, and TS contents of the sediments are known as useful proxies for the reconstruction of the depositional environment (e.g. Berner, 1982; Sampei et al., in Lützow-Holm Bay (Yasuhara et al., 2007).”
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Evaluation of Depositional Environments of Holocene Deposits in the Takaoka Plain Based on Total Sulfur, Total Nitrogen and Total Organic Carbon Concentration.
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Geochemical and microbial characters of sediment from the gas hydrate area in the Taixinan Basin, South China Sea
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Sedimentary carbon dynamics of the Atchafalaya and Mississippi River Delta system and associated margin
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Organic carbon-sulfur relationships in sediment cores from the western and eastern continental margins of India
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“A linear relationship exists between organic carbon and sulfide sulfur in normal marine sediments with the regression line passing through the origin (Goldhaber and Kaplan, 1974; Berner, 1982), whereas the regression line for anoxic sediments”
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Pyritized ooids from the Arabian Sea Basin
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Advances in marine chemistry 1979–1982
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Sediment fluxes and carbon budgets in Loch Creran, western Scotland
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“According to Berner (1982), a total of 126 1012 g a21 OC is deposited in deltaic shelf sediments.”
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Upper Campanian-Maastrichtian calcareous nannoplankton biostratigraphy and paleoecology in Wadi Qena, Eastern Desert, Egypt
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“Although they receive high terrigenous organic matter alongside the high clastic supply, most prodeltaic and submarine fans have TOC% values less than 1% (Demaison and Moore 1980; Berner 1982; Tyson 1995).”
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Examination of the 2011 Mississippi River Flood Deposit on the Louisiana Continental Shelf
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Overlooked role of heterotrophic prokaryotes in sulfur oxidation makes the sediment of the Bohai Sea a sufficient sink of hydrogen sulfide
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“However, over 80% sulfide is eventually reoxidized back to sulfate, while less than 20% is ultimately buried as metal sulfides, e.g., FeS, FeS 2 , or sulfurized organic matter (3, 4).”
Ni and Mo enrichment mechanisms in framboidal pyrite during methane-release events (Baiyun Sag, South China Sea)
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Uncertainties About the Role of River and Mangrove Dissolved Inorganic Carbon and Alkalinity Loads in Buffering the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon
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“TAlk production through pyrite formation was also estimated based on mangrove carbon burial rates and the ratio between sedimentary organic carbon and sulfur (C/S ratio) in mangrove sediments (Berner, 1982, 1984; Hu & Cai, 2011; Krumins et al., 2013).”
The Petrography, Mineralogy, and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Shales of the Duwi Formation, Abu Tartur, South Western Desert, Egypt
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“Moreover, the dominant occurrence of the framboids, particularly the clustered forms in organic-rich shales, tends to indicate a biogenic origin as a consequence of the bacterial reduction of seawater sulfate (Berner, 1982).”
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Comparison of Sulfate Reduction Rates Associated with Geochemical Characteristics at the Continental Slope and Basin Sediments in the Ulleung Basin, East Sea
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“유기물 분해에 의해 생성된 무기물은 다시 수층으로 재순환(recycling)하게 되고, 분해 가 이루어지지 않은 일부 유기물은 퇴적물 내에 묻히거나 (buried) 외해로 이동된다(Berner 1982; Wollast 1991).”
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Source and composition of organic matter and its role in designing sediment microbial communities
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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)
DOI: 10.2475/ajs.282.4.451
OpenAlex: W2049621326
Cited by: 1,200
References: 0
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FWCI: 14.34
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
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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 Plankton and Biogeochemistry
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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