Most of Earth's terrestrial surface is made up of slo** landscapes. The lateral distribution
of topsoil by erosion controls the availability, stock, and persistence of essential elements in …

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 …

For more than a decade I have taught a graduate-level course in marine sediment
geochemistry that covers many of the topics discussed in this book. The goal now is to …

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 …

In the past 30 years, the field of black carbon (BC) research has expanded broadly,
stretching from its traditional core in the atmospheric sciences into oceanography, soil …

The carbon (C) cycle in boreal regions is strongly influenced by fire, which converts biomass
and detrital C mainly to gaseous forms (CO 2 and smaller proportions of CO and CH 4), and …

Rivers transport abundant terrestrial carbon into the ocean, constituting a fundamental
channel between terrestrial carbon pools and oceanic carbon pools. The black carbon (BC) …

A short-term incubation study was carried out to investigate the effect of biochar addition to
soil on CO2 emissions, microbial biomass, soil soluble carbon (C) nitrogen (N) and nitrate …

Calculations based on recent observations indicate that approximately one third of the
organic matter presently being buried in marine sediments may be of terrestrial origin, with …

Black carbon (BC) is a recalcitrant form of organic carbon (OC) produced by landscape fires.
BC is an important component of the global carbon cycle because, compared to unburned …