Communications Earth & Environment (Feb 2022)
The hadal zone is an important and heterogeneous sink of black carbon in the ocean
- Xi Zhang,
- Yunping Xu,
- Wenjie Xiao,
- Meixun Zhao,
- Zicheng Wang,
- Xuchen Wang,
- Liping Xu,
- Min Luo,
- Xinxin Li,
- Jiasong Fang,
- Yin Fang,
- Yasong Wang,
- Kazumasa Oguri,
- Frank Wenzhöfer,
- Ashley A. Rowden,
- Siddhartha Mitra,
- Ronnie N. Glud
Affiliations
- Xi Zhang
- Shanghai Frontiers Research Center of the Hadal Biosphere & HAST, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University
- Yunping Xu
- Shanghai Frontiers Research Center of the Hadal Biosphere & HAST, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University
- Wenjie Xiao
- Shanghai Frontiers Research Center of the Hadal Biosphere & HAST, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University
- Meixun Zhao
- Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, and Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China
- Zicheng Wang
- Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, and Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China
- Xuchen Wang
- Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, and Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China
- Liping Xu
- Center for Isotope Geochemistry and Geochronology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology
- Min Luo
- Shanghai Frontiers Research Center of the Hadal Biosphere & HAST, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University
- Xinxin Li
- Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Jiasong Fang
- Shanghai Frontiers Research Center of the Hadal Biosphere & HAST, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University
- Yin Fang
- Shanghai Frontiers Research Center of the Hadal Biosphere & HAST, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University
- Yasong Wang
- Shanghai Frontiers Research Center of the Hadal Biosphere & HAST, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University
- Kazumasa Oguri
- Department of Biology, Hadal, Nordcee & DIAS, University of Southern Denmark
- Frank Wenzhöfer
- Department of Biology, Hadal, Nordcee & DIAS, University of Southern Denmark
- Ashley A. Rowden
- Coast and Oceans National Centre, National Institute of Water & Atmosphere Research (NIWA) Ltd
- Siddhartha Mitra
- Geological Sciences, East Carolina University
- Ronnie N. Glud
- Department of Biology, Hadal, Nordcee & DIAS, University of Southern Denmark
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00351-7
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 3,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Black carbon accumulation rates in hadal trenches in the deepest regions of the oceans could be seven-fold higher than the global ocean average, according to geochemical and isotopic analyses of sediments from six trenches in the Pacific Ocean.
