The biogeochemical sulfur cycle of marine sediments

BB Jørgensen, AJ Findlay, A Pellerin - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Microbial dissimilatory sulfate reduction to sulfide is a predominant terminal pathway of
organic matter mineralization in the anoxic seabed. Chemical or microbial oxidation of the …

The global turbidity current pump and its implications for organic carbon cycling

PJ Talling, S Hage, ML Baker, TS Bianchi… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Submarine turbidity currents form the largest sediment accumulations on Earth, raising the
question of their role in global carbon cycles. It was previously inferred that terrestrial …

Mid-Pleistocene transition in glacial cycles explained by declining CO2 and regolith removal

M Willeit, A Ganopolski, R Calov, V Brovkin - Science Advances, 2019 - science.org
Variations in Earth's orbit pace the glacial-interglacial cycles of the Quaternary, but the
mechanisms that transform regional and seasonal variations in solar insolation into glacial …

Neogene burial of organic carbon in the global ocean

Z Li, YG Zhang, M Torres, BJW Mills - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Organic carbon buried in marine sediment serves as a net sink for atmospheric carbon
dioxide and a source of oxygen,. The rate of organic carbon burial through geologic history …

A unified theory for organic matter accumulation

EJ Zakem, BB Cael, NM Levine - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Organic matter constitutes a key reservoir in global elemental cycles. However, our
understanding of the dynamics of organic matter and its accumulation remains incomplete …

Glacial weathering, sulfide oxidation, and global carbon cycle feedbacks

MA Torres, N Moosdorf, J Hartmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Connections between glaciation, chemical weathering, and the global carbon cycle could
steer the evolution of global climate over geologic time, but even the directionality of …

Abrupt global-ocean anoxia during the Late Ordovician–early Silurian detected using uranium isotopes of marine carbonates

R Bartlett, M Elrick, JR Wheeley… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Widespread marine anoxia is hypothesized as the trigger for the second pulse of the Late
Ordovician (Hirnantian) mass extinction based on lithologic and geochemical proxies that …

Global ocean sediment composition and burial flux in the deep sea

CT Hayes, KM Costa, RF Anderson… - Global …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Quantitative knowledge about the burial of sedimentary components at the seafloor has
wide‐ranging implications in ocean science, from global climate to continental weathering …

Transfer efficiency of organic carbon in marine sediments

JA Bradley, D Hülse, DE LaRowe, S Arndt - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Quantifying the organic carbon (OC) sink in marine sediments is crucial for assessing how
the marine carbon cycle regulates Earth's climate. However, burial efficiency (BE)–the …

Cycling and persistence of iron-bound organic carbon in subseafloor sediments

Y Chen, L Dong, W Sui, M Niu, X Cui… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Reactive iron (FeR) serves as an important sink of organic carbon (OC) in marine surface
sediments, which preserves approximately 20% of total OC (TOC) as reactive iron-bound …