Computer Science
Scientific paper
Jan 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006gecoa..70..408a&link_type=abstract
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 70, Issue 2, p. 408-425.
Computer Science
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A transport reaction model was designed to identify the combination and importance of biogeochemical processes operating in four sites drilled during ODP Leg 207 (Demerara Rise, Equatorial Atlantic). Almost 100 Ma after their deposition, deeply buried Cretaceous black shales still act as active bioreactors in great sediment depths and control the biogeochemical reaction network of the whole sediment column. According to a model calibrated at the four drill sites through inverse modeling techniques, methanogenesis could be identified as a key process that dominates not only organic matter degradation but also sulfate availability through the anaerobic oxidation of methane above the black shales. A complete depletion of sulfate within the black shale sequences promotes the remobilization of biogenic barium that reprecipitates as authigenic barite at the top of the sulfate depletion zone. Temporal dynamics of degradation processes caused continuous shifts of the barite precipitation zone during burial, thus inhibiting the formation of an authigenic barite front or causing the dissolution of earlier formed fronts. Major deviations of pore water sulfate profiles from a linear gradient coincide with depths of decelerated or accelerated transport caused by local porosity minima or maxima. Model-determined reaction rates are by far lower than those found in shallower sediments due to the low metabolic activities that are characteristic for the Deep Biosphere. But even after almost 100 Ma, changing organic matter quality still influences the degradation within the black shale sequences, as it is indicated by model results.
Arndt Sandra
Brumsack Hans-Jürgen
Wirtz Kai W.
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