The Temporal Dynamics of Terrestrial Organic Matter Transfer to the Oceans: Initial Assessment and Application

• Main Author: Drenzek, Nicholas J.
• Other Authors: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Organic Chemistry; Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; *ORGANIC MATERIALS; *OCEAN ENVIRONMENTS; *PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; *RADIOCARBON DATING; COASTAL REGIONS; THESES; EVOLUTION(GENERAL); MARKERS; OCEANS; EARTH(PLANET); AMPLITUDE; HIGH LATITUDES; CARIBBEAN SEA; ARCTIC OCEAN; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; TRACER STUDIES; BEAUFORT SEA; GLACIERS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; WEATHERING; SEDIMENTS; OSCILLATION; MODULATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; TRANSFER; INVENTORY; ISOTOPES; SIGNALS; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Beaufort Shelf; Beaufort Sea
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA472625; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA472625

This thesis employs compound-specific stable carbon and radiocarbon isotopic analysis of organic biomarkers to (a) resolve petrogenic from pre-aged vascular plant organic carbon (OC) in continental margin sediments, (b) investigate the underlying mechanisms controlling the anomalously old ages that...