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Mogollón, J.M.; Mewes, K.; Kasten, S. (2016)

Quantifying manganese and nitrogen cycle coupling in manganese-rich, organic carbon-starved marine sediments: Examples from the Clarion-Clipperton fracture zone

Article / Letter to editor
Extensive deep‐sea sedimentary areas are characterized by low organic carbon contents and thus harbor suboxic sedimentary environments where secondary (autotrophic) redox cycling becomes important for microbial metabolic processes. Simulation results for three stations in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific with low organic carbon content (<0.5 dry wt %) and low sedimentation rates (10−1–100 mm ky−1) show that ammonium generated during organic matter degradation may act as a reducing agent for manganese oxides below the oxic zone. Likewise, at these sedimentary depths, dissolved reduced manganese may act as a reducing agent for oxidized nitrogen species. These manganese‐coupled transformations provide a suboxic conversion pathway of ammonium and nitrate to dinitrogen. These manganese‐nitrogen interactions further explain the presence and production of dissolved reduced manganese (up to tens of μM concentration) in sediments with high nitrate (...Show moreExtensive deep‐sea sedimentary areas are characterized by low organic carbon contents and thus harbor suboxic sedimentary environments where secondary (autotrophic) redox cycling becomes important for microbial metabolic processes. Simulation results for three stations in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific with low organic carbon content (<0.5 dry wt %) and low sedimentation rates (10−1–100 mm ky−1) show that ammonium generated during organic matter degradation may act as a reducing agent for manganese oxides below the oxic zone. Likewise, at these sedimentary depths, dissolved reduced manganese may act as a reducing agent for oxidized nitrogen species. These manganese‐coupled transformations provide a suboxic conversion pathway of ammonium and nitrate to dinitrogen. These manganese‐nitrogen interactions further explain the presence and production of dissolved reduced manganese (up to tens of μM concentration) in sediments with high nitrate (>20 μM) concentrations.Show less
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Mogollón, J.M.; Mewes, K.; Kasten, S.
Date
2016-06-23
Journal
Geophysical Research Letters
Volume
43
Issue
13
Pages
7114 - 7123
DOI
doi:10.1002/2016GL069117