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Baker, Earl W; Louda, William (1982): Geochemistry of tetrapyrrole, tetraterpenoid, and perylene pigments in sediments from the Gulf of California [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.819415, Supplement to: Baker, EW; Louda, W (1982): Geochemistry of tetrapyrrole, tetraterpenoid, and perylene pigments in sediments from the Gulf of California: Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 64, Sites 474, 477, 479, and 481, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography Guaymas Basin Survey Cruise Leg 3, Sites 10G and 18G. In: Curray, JR; Moore, DG; et al. (eds.), Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (U.S. Govt. Printing Office), 64, 789-814, https://doi.org/10.2973/dsdp.proc.64.125.1982

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Abstract:
Results and discussion cover pigment analyses of 36 sediment samples recovered by Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 64, and six samples from the Leg 64 site-survey cruise in the Guaymas Basin (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Leg 3). Pigments investigated were tetrapyrroles, tetraterpenoids, and the PAH compound perylene.
Traces of mixed nickel and copper ETIO-porphyrins were ubiquitous in all sediment samples, except for the very surface (i.e., <2 m sub-bottom), and their presence is taken as an indication of minor influxes of previously oxidized allochthonous (terrestrial) organic matter.
Phorbides and chlorins isolated from Site 479 sediment samples (i.e., the oxygen-minimum locale, northeast of the Guaymas Basin) well represent the reductive diagenesis ("Treibs Scheme"; see Baker and Palmer, 1978; Treibs, 1936) of chlorophyll derivatives. Three forms of pheophytin-a, plus a variety of phorbides, were found to give rise to freebase porphyrins, nickel phylloerythrin, and nickel porphyrins, with increasing depth of burial (increasing temperature). Sediments from Sites 481, 10G, and 18G yielded chlorophyll derivatives characteristic of early oxidative alterations. Included among these pigments are allomerized pheophytin-a, purpurin-18, and chlorin-p6.
The high thermal gradient imposed upon the late Quaternary sediments of Site 477 greatly accelerated chlorophyll diagenesis in the adjacent overlying sediments, that is, the production of large quantities of free-base desoxophylloerythroetioporphyrin (DPEP) occurred in a section (477-7-5) presently only 49.8 meters sub-bottom. Present depth and age of these sediments are such that only chlorins and phorbides would be expected.
Carotenoid (i.e., tetraterpenoids) concentrations were found to decrease rapidly with increasing sub-bottom depth. Less deeply buried sediments (e.g., 0-30 m) yielded mixtures of carotenes and oxygen-substituted carotenoids. Oxygencontaining (oxy-, oxo-, epoxy-) carotenoids were found to be lost preferentially with increased depth of burial.
Early carotenoid diagenesis is suggested as involving interacting reductions and dehydrations whereby dehydro-, didehydro-, and retro-carotenes are generated. Destruction of carotenoids as pigments may involve oxidative cleavage of the isoprenoid chain through epoxy intermediates, akin to changes in the senescent cells of plants.
Perylene was found to be a common component of the extractable organic matter from all sediments investigated. The generation of alkyl perylenes was found to parallel increases in the existing thermal regime at all sites. Igneous sills and sill complexes within the sediment profile of Site 481 altered (i.e., scrambled) the otherwise straightforward thermally induced alkylation of perylene.
The degree of perylene alkylation is proposed as an indicator of geothermal stress for non-contemporaneous marine sediments.
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Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP)
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Median Latitude: 25.583323 * Median Longitude: -110.424493 * South-bound Latitude: 22.959300 * West-bound Longitude: -111.624800 * North-bound Latitude: 27.846000 * East-bound Longitude: -108.978000
Date/Time Start: 1978-03-08T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1979-01-03T00:00:00
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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  1. Baker, EW; Louda, W (1982): (Table 7) Electronic absorption spectra of carotenes and purified carotenes isolated from DSDP Leg 64 core samples. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.819413
  2. Baker, EW; Louda, W (1982): (Table 6) Composition of carotenoid assemblages isolated from DSDP Leg 64 core samples. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.819412
  3. Baker, EW; Louda, W (1982): (Table 5) Electronic spectra of metalloporphyrins isolated from DSDP Leg 64 core samples. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.819410
  4. Baker, EW; Louda, W (1982): (Table 9) Normalized 14-eV mass spectra of perylenes isolated from DSDP Leg 64 sediment samples. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.819414
  5. Baker, EW; Louda, W (1982): (Table 2) Sample description and pigment yields, DSDP Leg 64. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.819408
  6. Baker, EW; Louda, W (1982): (Table 3) Composition of tetrapyrroles isolated from DSDP Leg 64 sediment samples. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.819409