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Apr 1979
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Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 43, Issue 4, pp.471-486
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Water samples collected from a slope station and two deep stations in the western basin of the Black Sea were analyzed for stenols and stanols by glass capillary gas chromatography. These results were used in conjuction with hydrographic, particulate organic carbon, and chlorophyll a data to better understand sterol sources and their transport and transformation mechanisms in anoxic basins. The total free sterol concentrations found in the surface waters were 450-500 ng/l dropping rapidly to values well below 100 ng/l at depths below the O 2 / H 2 S interface. In the upper 200 m of the water column a strong association of sterols with particulate matter is suggested. Structural elucidation by a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer-computer system revealed the presence of at least sixteen different stenols and stanols in the surface waters of the Black Sea. Cholesterol, 24-methylenecholesterol and 24-methylcholesta-5,22-dien-3 -ol were the major sterols in the surface waters. Cholesterol and 24-ethylcholesterol both exhibited a subsurface maximum at the O 2 / H 2 S interface. In the anoxic deep waters (200-2000 m) only cholesterol and 24-ethylcholesterol were found. Two stenols were found that have not been reported in seawater: a C 26 stenol with a saturated C 7 H 15 side chain (presumably 24-norcholesterol) and 24-ketocholesterol. At least six 5 -stanols could be identified in the surface samples, each of them comprising about 10-20% of the concentration of the corresponding 5-stenol. From these comparatively high surface values the stanol concentrations drop rapidly to values near zero at the O 2 / H 2 S interface. Except for very low concentrations of 5 -cholestanol (< 4ng/l) no other stanols could be detected in the anoxic zone. From this data it appears that no detectable stenol stanol conversion is occurring at the O 2 / H 2 S interface or in the deep anoxic waters of the Black Sea.
Gagosian Robert B.
Heinzer Franz
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