TY - JOUR
T1 - Redox Effects on Organic Matter Storage in Coastal Sediments during the Holocene
T2 - A BiomarkerProxy Perspective
AU - Bianchi, Thomas S.
AU - Schreiner, Kathryn M
AU - Smith, Richard W.
AU - Burdige, David J.
AU - Woodard, Stella
AU - Conley, Daniel J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/6/29
Y1 - 2016/6/29
N2 - Coastal margins play a significant role in the burial of organic matter (OM) on Earth. These margins vary considerably with respect to their efficiency in OM burial and to the amounts and periodicity of their OM delivery, depending in large part on whether they are passive or active margins. In the context of global warming, these coastal regions are expected to experience higher water temperatures, changes in riverine inputs of OM, and sea level rise. Low-oxygen conditions continue to expand around the globe in estuarine regions (i.e., hypoxic zones) and shelf regions (i.e., oxygen minimum zones), which will impact the amounts and sources of OM stored in these regions. In this review, we explore how these changes are impacting the storage of OM and the preservation of sedimentary biomarkers, used as proxies to reconstruct environmental change, in coastal margins.
AB - Coastal margins play a significant role in the burial of organic matter (OM) on Earth. These margins vary considerably with respect to their efficiency in OM burial and to the amounts and periodicity of their OM delivery, depending in large part on whether they are passive or active margins. In the context of global warming, these coastal regions are expected to experience higher water temperatures, changes in riverine inputs of OM, and sea level rise. Low-oxygen conditions continue to expand around the globe in estuarine regions (i.e., hypoxic zones) and shelf regions (i.e., oxygen minimum zones), which will impact the amounts and sources of OM stored in these regions. In this review, we explore how these changes are impacting the storage of OM and the preservation of sedimentary biomarkers, used as proxies to reconstruct environmental change, in coastal margins.
KW - Anthropogenic
KW - Environmental change
KW - Hypoxia
KW - Organic carbon burial
KW - Oxygen minimum zones
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U2 - 10.1146/annurev-earth-060614-105417
DO - 10.1146/annurev-earth-060614-105417
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84977138799
SN - 0084-6597
VL - 44
SP - 295
EP - 319
JO - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
JF - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
ER -