Organic carbon and nitrogen at DSDP Leg 58 Holes
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| author | Waples, Douglas W Sloan, Jon R |
| author_facet | Waples, Douglas W Sloan, Jon R |
| collection | Datos científicos de ciencias marinas y ambientales |
| contents | The sediments penetrated on Leg 58 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project in the Philippine Sea represent long periods of geologic time during which depositional conditions apparently remained very constant. Organic carbon and nitrogen contents of the sediments decrease with increasing depth of burial, before leveling off at minimum values of about 0.05 to 0.10 per cent and 0.01 per cent, respectively. The depth at which the minimum values are reached varies from site to site, but ages of sediments corresponding to the minima are all about 5 m.y. We infer that slow bacterial diagenesis is responsible for the gradual depletion of organic carbon and nitrogen. It is likely that the rate of bacterial metabolism is controlled by the rate of diffusion of electron acceptors within the sediments. These results suggest that bacterial ecosystems in deep-water sediments play a much more important role in diagenesis than has previously been thought. |
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| publishDate | 1980 |
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| spellingShingle | Organic carbon and nitrogen at DSDP Leg 58 Holes Waples, Douglas W Sloan, Jon R 58-442A; 58-442B; 58-443; 58-444; 58-444A; 58-445; 58-446; 58-446A; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; Glomar Challenger; Leg58; North Pacific/BASIN; North Pacific/Philippine Sea/BASIN The sediments penetrated on Leg 58 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project in the Philippine Sea represent long periods of geologic time during which depositional conditions apparently remained very constant. Organic carbon and nitrogen contents of the sediments decrease with increasing depth of burial, before leveling off at minimum values of about 0.05 to 0.10 per cent and 0.01 per cent, respectively. The depth at which the minimum values are reached varies from site to site, but ages of sediments corresponding to the minima are all about 5 m.y. We infer that slow bacterial diagenesis is responsible for the gradual depletion of organic carbon and nitrogen. It is likely that the rate of bacterial metabolism is controlled by the rate of diffusion of electron acceptors within the sediments. These results suggest that bacterial ecosystems in deep-water sediments play a much more important role in diagenesis than has previously been thought. |
| title | Organic carbon and nitrogen at DSDP Leg 58 Holes |
| topic | 58-442A; 58-442B; 58-443; 58-444; 58-444A; 58-445; 58-446; 58-446A; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; Glomar Challenger; Leg58; North Pacific/BASIN; North Pacific/Philippine Sea/BASIN |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.821348 |