Marine carbon burial enhanced by microbial carbonate formation at hydrocarbon seeps
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| author | Smrzka, Daniel Tseng, Yiting Zwicker, Jennifer Schröder-Ritzrau, Andrea Frank, Norbert Schmitt, Anne-Désirée Pape, Thomas Birgel, Daniel Peckmann, Jörn Lin, Saulwood Bohrmann, Gerhard |
| author_facet | Smrzka, Daniel Tseng, Yiting Zwicker, Jennifer Schröder-Ritzrau, Andrea Frank, Norbert Schmitt, Anne-Désirée Pape, Thomas Birgel, Daniel Peckmann, Jörn Lin, Saulwood Bohrmann, Gerhard |
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| contents | Some of the carbon removed from Earth's surface is stored within authigenic carbonate in marine sediments. Methane seeps are crucial sites of global marine carbon cycling sustaining microbial activity, enabling carbonate formation and the transfer of methane-derived carbon to the geosphere. Carbon sequestration rates depend on carbonate precipitation rate, which can be accelerated by mat-forming microorganisms that are ubiquitous at methane seeps and other Earth surface environments today. We investigate a 5-m-long drill core from an active methane seep at 1500 m water depth in the South China Sea with an exceptional abundance of pink and clear aragonite cement derived from the sulphate-driven anaerobic oxidation of methane, yet both cements precipitated under different conditions. Phase-specific 230Th/U-based ages, lipid biomarker compositions, and calcium isotope data suggest that pink aragonite is a product of in situ biofilm mineralization. First estimated precipitation rates of these individual cements in the seep carbonates range from 0.04 cm/ka for clear aragonite to 1.0 cm/ka for pink aragonite, suggesting an up to 25-fold increase in precipitation rates associated with biofilm mineralization. These results provide first kinetic constraints for future quantitative carbon cycle models, emphasizing the role of biofilms in accelerating carbon sequestration in marine authigenic carbonates. |
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| spellingShingle | Marine carbon burial enhanced by microbial carbonate formation at hydrocarbon seeps Smrzka, Daniel Tseng, Yiting Zwicker, Jennifer Schröder-Ritzrau, Andrea Frank, Norbert Schmitt, Anne-Désirée Pape, Thomas Birgel, Daniel Peckmann, Jörn Lin, Saulwood Bohrmann, Gerhard Authigenic Carbonate; Calcium isotopes; Cold seeps; U/Th dating Some of the carbon removed from Earth's surface is stored within authigenic carbonate in marine sediments. Methane seeps are crucial sites of global marine carbon cycling sustaining microbial activity, enabling carbonate formation and the transfer of methane-derived carbon to the geosphere. Carbon sequestration rates depend on carbonate precipitation rate, which can be accelerated by mat-forming microorganisms that are ubiquitous at methane seeps and other Earth surface environments today. We investigate a 5-m-long drill core from an active methane seep at 1500 m water depth in the South China Sea with an exceptional abundance of pink and clear aragonite cement derived from the sulphate-driven anaerobic oxidation of methane, yet both cements precipitated under different conditions. Phase-specific 230Th/U-based ages, lipid biomarker compositions, and calcium isotope data suggest that pink aragonite is a product of in situ biofilm mineralization. First estimated precipitation rates of these individual cements in the seep carbonates range from 0.04 cm/ka for clear aragonite to 1.0 cm/ka for pink aragonite, suggesting an up to 25-fold increase in precipitation rates associated with biofilm mineralization. These results provide first kinetic constraints for future quantitative carbon cycle models, emphasizing the role of biofilms in accelerating carbon sequestration in marine authigenic carbonates. |
| title | Marine carbon burial enhanced by microbial carbonate formation at hydrocarbon seeps |
| topic | Authigenic Carbonate; Calcium isotopes; Cold seeps; U/Th dating |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.974130 |