The black carbon cycle and its role in the Earth system

AI Coppola, S Wagner, ST Lennartz, M Seidel… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Black carbon (BC) is produced by incomplete combustion of biomass by wildfires and
burning of fossil fuels. BC is environmentally persistent over centuries to millennia …

The interaction of climate change and methane hydrates

CD Ruppel, JD Kessler - Reviews of Geophysics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Gas hydrate, a frozen, naturally‐occurring, and highly‐concentrated form of methane,
sequesters significant carbon in the global system and is stable only over a range of low …

Seafloor oxygen consumption fuelled by methane from cold seeps

A Boetius, F Wenzhöfer - Nature Geoscience, 2013 - nature.com
The leakage of cold, methane-rich fluids from subsurface reservoirs to the sea floor at
specific sites on continental slopes, termed cold seeps, sustains some of the richest …

Hydrothermal vents and methane seeps: rethinking the sphere of influence

LA Levin, AR Baco, DA Bowden, A Colaco… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Although initially viewed as oases within a barren deep ocean, hydrothermal vents and
methane seep chemosynthetic communities are now recognized to interact with surrounding …

Global dispersion and local diversification of the methane seep microbiome

SE Ruff, JF Biddle, AP Teske, K Knittel… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - pnas.org
Methane seeps are widespread seafloor ecosystems shaped by the emission of gas from
seabed reservoirs. The microorganisms inhabiting methane seeps transform the chemical …

Molecular transformation and degradation of refractory dissolved organic matter in the Atlantic and Southern Ocean

OJ Lechtenfeld, G Kattner, R Flerus… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
More than 90% of the global ocean dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is refractory, has an
average age of 4000–6000 years and a lifespan from months to millennia. The fraction of …

Sediment pore waters

DJ Burdige, T Komada, HAN Abdulla - Biogeochemistry of marine dissolved …, 2024 - Elsevier
We first review dissolved organic matter (DOM) concentrations and isotopic composition
(carbon only) in sediment pore waters at both the bulk level and at the compound and …

Net removal of major marine dissolved organic carbon fractions in the subsurface ocean

DA Hansell, CA Carlson… - Global Biogeochemical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Marine dissolved organic matter is a massive reservoir of carbon holding> 200x the ocean
biomass inventory. Primarily produced at the ocean surface and then exported to depth with …

Hidden cycle of dissolved organic carbon in the deep ocean

CL Follett, DJ Repeta, DH Rothman, L Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - pnas.org
Marine dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is a large (660 Pg C) reactive carbon reservoir that
mediates the oceanic microbial food web and interacts with climate on both short and long …

The sedimentary rock record of Mars: Distribution, origins, and global stratigraphy

JP Grotzinger, RE Milliken - 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The last decade of Mars exploration produced a series of discoveries that provide
compelling evidence for the existence of sedimentary rocks on Mars. Previously, Mars was …