Carbon fluxes at the sediment-water interface of the deep-sea: Calcium carbonate preservation

Authors

Steven Emerson, Department of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195
Michael Bender, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, 02881

Abstract

The degradation of organic m atter at the seawater-sediment interface plays an important role in the pattern of calcium carbonate preservation in the deep sea. A model developed to quantify this effect shows that the amount of calcium carbonate dissolved by metabolic CO2 at the sediment-water interface is dependent upon the rain ratio of organic carbon and calcium carbonate, and the rates of organic matter degradation and calcite dissolution....

Recommended Citation

Emerson, Steven, and Michael Bender. 1981. "Carbon fluxes at the sediment-water interface of the deep-sea: Calcium carbonate preservation." Journal of Marine Research 39, (1). https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/journal_of_marine_research/1537