The behaviour of dissolved organic material, iron and manganese in estuarine mixing

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Jun 1979

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Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 43, Issue 6, pp.919-926

Physics

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Scientific paper

Fractionation by ultra-filtration of the dissolved organic material (DOM) in the River Beaulieu, with typical concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) of 7-8 mg C/l, showed it to be mainly in the nominal molecular weight range of 10 3 -10 5 , with 16-23% of the total DOC in the fraction > 10 5 . The molecular weight distribution of DOM in the more alkaline River Test (average DOC, 2 mg C/l) was similar. In the River Beaulieu water, containing 136-314 g Fe/l in `dissolved' forms, 90% or more of this Fe was in the nominal molecular weight fraction > 10 5 . Experiments showed that DOM of nominal molecular weight <10 5 could stabilize Fe(III) in `dissolved' forms. The concentrations of `dissolved' Fe in the river water probably reflect the presence of colloidal Fe stabilized by organic material and this process may influence the apparent molecular weight of the DOM. Dissolved. Mn (100-136 g/l) in the River Beaulieu was mainly in true solution, probably as Mn(II), with some 30% in forms of molecular weight greater than ca 10 4 . During mi xing in the Beaulieu Estuary, DOC and dissolved Mn behave essentially conservatively. This contrasts with the removal of a large fraction of the dissolved Fe (Holliday and LISS, 1976, Est. Coastal Mar. Sci. 4, 349-353). Concentrations of lattice-held Fe and Mn in suspended particulate material were essentially uniform in the estuary, at 3.2 and 0.012%, respectively, whereas the non-lattice held fractions decreased markedly with increase in salinity. For Mn the decrease was linear and could be most simply accounted for by the physical mixing of riverborne and marine participates, although the possibility that some desorption occurs is not excluded. The non-linear decrease in the concentration of non-lattice held Fe in particulates reflected the more complex situation in which physical mixing is accompanied by removal of material from the `dissolved' fraction.

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