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Burial of organic carbon and pyrite sulfur in the modern ocean; its geochemical and environmental significance.
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“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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“Coastal sediments are major carbon depo-centers that account for as much as 90% of Holocene OC burial in the global ocean (Berner, 1982; Burdige, 2005; Hedges, 1992).”
BackgroundLoss of the sedimentary mixed layer as a result of the end-Permian extinction
Hofmann, R., Buatois, L. A., MacNaughton, R. B., & Mángano, M. G. (2015) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.03.036 · Cited by 67
“First, it directly controls initial draw-down of seawater sulphate by decreasing the rate ofmicrobial sulphate reduction via substrate oxygenation in the mixed layer (Berner, 1982).”
BackgroundThe modern phosphorus cycle informs interpretations of Mesoproterozoic Era phosphorus dynamics
Canfield, D. E., Bjerrum, C. J., Zhang, S., Wang, H., & Wang, X. (2020) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103267 · Cited by 66
What caused the long duration of the Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum?
Zeebe, R. E. (2013) · Paleoceanography · doi:10.1002/palo.20039 · Cited by 64
“[33] However, this assumption breaks down in sediment settings where a significant fraction of HS– is precipitated as iron sulfide and pyrite in sediments [e.g., Berner, 1982] (see Figure 8).”
BackgroundHu, B., Li, J., Bi, N., Wang, H., Wei, H., Zhao, J., Xie, L., Zou, L., Cui, R., Li, S., et al. (2015) · Earth Surface Processes and Landforms · doi:10.1002/esp.3702 · Cited by 65
“, 2013) or direct ramped-pyrolysis radiocarbon analysis of SPM (e.g. Rosenheim and Galy, 2012; Rosenheim et al., 2013) are urgently needed. Nevertheless, the estimated bulk age of biogenic OC (c. 2200 years) in the Huanghe basin can be validated by a partial ‘residence time’ for the POC in soil (TimeSOC), which only t…”
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Ozaki, K., & Tajika, E. (2013) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.04.029 · Cited by 66
“A shallow shelf is a primary locus for the deposition of biogenic materials because of a high rain flux of materials and high sediment accumulation rate (Berner, 1982; Dunne et al., 2007; Hedges and Keil, 1995).”
BackgroundWang, X., Li, N., Feng, D., Hu, Y., Bayon, G., Liang, Q., Tong, H., Gong, S., Tao, J., & Chen, D. (2018) · Journal of Asian Earth Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2018.11.011 · Cited by 65
“In these settings, reduced sulfur and organic carbon contents typically show a positive correlation with an average S/C ratio of 0.36 (Berner, 1982).”
BackgroundInfluentialSuthhof, A., Jennerjahn, T. C., Schäfer, P., et al. (2000) · Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography · doi:10.1016/s0967-0645(99)00109-5 · Cited by 65
Early Diagenesis of Organic Matter and the Nutritional Value of Sediment
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Transfer efficiency of organic carbon in marine sediments
Bradley, J. A., Hülse, D., LaRowe, D. E., et al. (2022) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-022-35112-9 · Cited by 63
The history of Earth’s sulfur cycle
Fakhraee, M., Crockford, P. W., Bauer, K. W., Pasquier, V., Sugiyama, I., Katsev, S., Raven, M. R., Gomes, M. L., Philippot, P., Crowe, S. A., et al. (2024) · Nature Reviews Earth & Environment · doi:10.1038/s43017-024-00615-0 · Cited by 70
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“In particular, the removal of particulate OC from the active global carbon cycle acts as an important control on atmospheric CO2 concentrations on the geological scale (Berner, 1982).”
BackgroundWatanabe, T., Naraoka, H., Nishimura, M., et al. (2004) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2004.02.009 · Cited by 63
Selvaraj, K., & Nath, B. N. (2016) · Frontiers in Marine Science · doi:10.3389/fmars.2016.00259 · Cited by 73
“Based on our budgeting of global sources and sinks of OC with updated estimates of marine productivity and terrestrial OM burial rate, we find that the marginal sediments are key burial sites of terrestrial OM (TOM), which is consistent with earlier views of Berner (1982) and Hedges and Keil (1995).”
BackgroundResultAuthigenic metastable iron sulfide minerals preserve microbial organic carbon in anoxic environments
Picard, A., Gartman, A., Cosmidis, J., Obst, M., Vidoudez, C., Clarke, D. R., & Girguis, P. R. (2019) · Chemical Geology · doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.119343 · Cited by 62
CASCADE – The Circum-Arctic Sediment CArbon DatabasE
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Biodiversity response to natural gradients of multiple stressors on continental margins
Sperling, E. A., Frieder, C. A., & Levin, L. A. (2016) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.0637 · Cited by 62
“Margins are also important to long-term carbon cycling as the largest sink for carbon produced on land and the shelf [3].”
BackgroundCowie, G. L., & Levin, L. A. (2008) · Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography · doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.10.001 · Cited by 58
“They form a primary control on the make-up of sedimentary records, and burial in margin sediments represents the largest long-term sink for C on the planet (Berner, 1982; Walsh, 1991).”
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Sequential bioavailability of sedimentary organic matter to heterotrophic bacteria
Mahmoudi, N., Beaupré, S. R., Steen, A. D., & Pearson, A. (2017) · Environmental Microbiology · doi:10.1111/1462-2920.13745 · Cited by 59
The inertness of being organic
Mayer, L. M. (2004) · Marine Chemistry · doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2004.06.022 · Cited by 58
“Most long-term organic matter preservation in the ocean is in finely disseminated form in ocean margin sediments that have no oxygen present (Berner, 1982; Hedges and Keil, 1995).”
BackgroundDecomposition and recycling of organic matter in muds of the Gulf of Papua, northern Coral Sea
Along, D. M. (1995) · Continental Shelf Research · doi:10.1016/0278-4343(94)00087-4 · Cited by 57
Earthquake-triggered increase in biospheric carbon export from a mountain belt
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Early diagenesis of recently deposited organic matter: A 9-yr time-series study of a flood deposit
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Metadata
- 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
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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 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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