Wei, Bingbing; Mollenhauer, Gesine; Hefter, Jens; Kusch, Stephanie; Grotheer, Hendrik; Schefuß, Enno; Jia, Guodong (2020): Fatty acids and their carbon isotopes in surface sediments from the Pearl River Estuary and northwestern South China Sea [dataset bundled publication]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.925137
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Abstract:
Tropical and subtropical rivers deliver large quantities of terrestrial organic carbon to the ocean, acting as a crucial part of the global carbon cycle, but little is known about the timescale and efficiency of their transport to and in the adjacent coastal sea. Here, we examined source-specific biomarker (normal fatty acids (n-FAs)) contents and isotope compositions in surface sediments in an alongshore transect southwestward from the Pearl River mouth. The C~28+30~ rather than other long-chain n-FAs were found to be the most representative for OC~terr~, and a plant wax mean residence time (MRT) of 3060 ± 90 yr was estimated in the Pearl River watershed from the ¹⁴C age of C~28+30~ n-FA in the river mouth sample. A four-source mixing model demonstrated that the mean burial efficiency of fossil and soil OC is 85% and 49%, respectively, indicating the refractory nature of fossil OC but a significant loss of soil OC due to remineralization during transport in the marine environment before final burial. Thus, the remineralization of soil OC in the tropical coastal sea may be an important CO₂ source.
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Wei, Bingbing; Mollenhauer, Gesine; Hefter, Jens; Kusch, Stephanie; Grotheer, Hendrik; Schefuß, Enno; Jia, Guodong (2021): The nature, timescale, and efficiency of riverine export of terrestrial organic carbon in the (sub)tropics: insights at the molecular level from the Pearl River and adjacent coastal sea. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 565, 116934, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116934
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 21.833000 * Median Longitude: 112.620000 * South-bound Latitude: 21.250000 * West-bound Longitude: 111.350000 * North-bound Latitude: 22.710000 * East-bound Longitude: 113.810000
Date/Time Start: 2011-08-02T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2017-10-24T00:00:00
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- Wei, B; Mollenhauer, G; Hefter, J et al. (2020): Radiocabon compositon of fatty acids in surface sediment samples from the northwestern South China Sea. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.924236
- Wei, B; Mollenhauer, G; Hefter, J et al. (2020): Stable carbon isotope compositon of fatty acids in surface sediment samples from the northwestern South China Sea. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.924243
- Wei, B; Mollenhauer, G; Hefter, J et al. (2020): Contents of fatty acids in surface sediment samples from the northwestern South China Sea. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.924218