Use of sedimentary organic carbon concentrations as a record of paleoceanographic
conditions is complicated by an insufficient understanding of the mechanisms controlling …

Marine organic-carbon-rich deposits occur where there is an ample rain of organic
particulate material to the sea floor and conditions favorable to its preservation. It was …

Mechanisms that control the preservation of organic carbon in the ocean are the key to
interpreting the paleoceanographic carbon signal. This process is investigated here utilizing …

Nearly all the carbon preserved in modern environments is found in coastal marine
sediments underlying water columns of< 2500 m depth (Premuzic et al., 1982). Of this buried …

This paper reviews the available information on the carbon contents of anoxic and oxic
sediments, factors controlling the preservation of organic carbon in marine sediments and …

The burial of organic matter (OM) in marine sediments represents the major link between
“active” surface pools of carbon in the oceans, atmosphere, on land, and in marine …

In two distal carbonate turbidites (labelled a and e) from the Madeira Abyssal Plain oxidation
of organic matter (OM) has been accompanied by a reduction in Hydrogen Index (HI) and …

The relationship between organic carbon (OC) and grain size found in most continental shelf
sediments is here reinterpreted in terms of the surface area of the sediments. Cores from …

Organic carbon in marine sediments is a critical component of the global carbon cycle, and
its degradation influences a wide range of phenomena, including the magnitude of carbon …

Abstract Comparison of rates of accumulation of organic carbon in surface marine sediments
from the central North Pacific, the continental margins off northwest Africa, northwest and …