[HTML][HTML] Sediment oxygen consumption: Role in the global marine carbon cycle

BB Jørgensen, F Wenzhöfer, M Egger, RN Glud - Earth-science reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The seabed plays a key role in the marine carbon cycle as a) the terminal location of aerobic
oxidation of organic matter, b) the greatest anaerobic bioreactor, and c) the greatest …

Quantifying the degradation of organic matter in marine sediments: A review and synthesis

S Arndt, BB Jørgensen, DE LaRowe, JJ Middelburg… - Earth-science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Quantifying the rates of biogeochemical processes in marine sediments is essential for
understanding global element cycles and climate change. Because organic matter …

Exponential increase of plastic burial in mangrove sediments as a major plastic sink

C Martin, F Baalkhuyur, L Valluzzi, V Saderne… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Sequestration of plastics in sediments is considered the ultimate sink of marine plastic
pollution that would justify unexpectedly low loads found in surface waters. Here, we …

Long-term organic carbon preservation enhanced by iron and manganese

OW Moore, L Curti, C Woulds, JA Bradley, P Babakhani… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The balance between degradation and preservation of sedimentary organic carbon (OC) is
important for global carbon and oxygen cycles. The relative importance of different …

Global diffusive fluxes of methane in marine sediments

M Egger, N Riedinger, JM Mogollón… - Nature Geoscience, 2018 - nature.com
Anaerobic oxidation of methane provides a globally important, yet poorly constrained barrier
for the vast amounts of methane produced in the subseafloor. Here we provide a global map …

First evidence of plastic fallout from the North Pacific Garbage Patch

M Egger, F Sulu-Gambari, L Lebreton - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The infamous garbage patches on the surface of subtropical oceanic gyres are proof that
plastic is polluting the ocean on an unprecedented scale. The fate of floating plastic debris …

Proterozoic ocean redox and biogeochemical stasis

CT Reinhard, NJ Planavsky… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The partial pressure of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere has increased dramatically through
time, and this increase is thought to have occurred in two rapid steps at both ends of the …

Major role of marine vegetation on the oceanic carbon cycle

CM Duarte, JJ Middelburg, N Caraco - Biogeosciences, 2005 - bg.copernicus.org
The carbon burial in vegetated sediments, ignored in past assessments of carbon burial in
the ocean, was evaluated using a bottom-up approach derived from upscaling a compilation …

[LIVRO][B] Diagenetic models and their implementation

BP Boudreau - 1997 - researchgate.net
Over the past fifteen years a limited number of monographs concerned with the theory of
transport and reaction of substances in sediments (Berner, 1980; Lerman, 1979; and in part …

Preservation of organic matter in marine sediments: controls, mechanisms, and an imbalance in sediment organic carbon budgets?

DJ Burdige - Chemical reviews, 2007 - ACS Publications
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 …