Bioturbation in near-surface sediments from the COMRA Polymetallic Nodule Area: Evidence from excess Pb measurements

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 49, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 2538-2542

  Yang, Qunhui ^a   Zhou, Huaiyang ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Bioturbation; COMRA polymetallic nodule area; Excess 210Pb activity

Indexed keywords

POLYCHAETA;

EID: 33749674866     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/04wd0034     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Smith, C. R., Levin, L. A., Hoover, D. J. et al., Variations in bioturbation across the oxygen minimum zone in the northwest Arabian Sea, Deep-Sea Research II, 2000, 47: 227-257.
2. Berger, W. H., Heath, G. R., Vertical mixing in pelagic sediments, Journal of Marine Research, 1968, 26: 134-143.
3. 210Pb profiles in salt marsh sediments. Journal Environmental Radioactivity, 1987, 5: 25-36.
4. Boudreau, B. P., Mean mixed depth of sediments: the wherefore and the why, Limnol. Oceanogr., 1998, 43(3): 524-526.
5. Smith, C. R., Rabouille, C., What controls the mixed-layer depth in deep-sea sediments? The importance of POC flux, Limnol. Oceanogr., 2002, 47(2): 418-426.
6. Weaver, P. P. E., Schultheiss, P. J., Vertical open burrows in deep-sea sediments 2m in length, Nature, 1983, 301: 329-331.
7. Aller, R. C., The effects of macrobenthos on chemical properties of marine sediment and overlying water, Animal-Sediment-Relations (eds. McCall, P. L., Tevesz, M. S. S.), New York: Plenum Publishing Co., 1982, 53-102.
8. Aller, R. C., Bioturbation and remineralization of sedimentary organic matter: effects of redox oscillation, Chemical Geology, 1994, 114: 331-345.
9. Wheatcroft, R. A., Jumars, P. A., Smith, C. R. et al., A mechanistic view of the particulate biodiffusion coefficient: step lengths, rest periods and transport directions, Journal of Marine Research, 1990, 48: 177-207.
10. Smith, C. R., Pope, R. H., DeMaster, D. J. et al., Age-dependent mixing of deep-sea sediments, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1993, 57: 1473-1488.
11. Henderson, G. M., Lindsay, F. N., Slowey, N. C., Variation in bioturbation with water depth on marine slopes a study on the Little Bahamas Bank, Marine Geology, 1999, 160: 105-118.
12. Huston, W. H., Bioturbation of deep-sea sediments: Oxygen isotopes and stratigraphic uncertainty, Geology, 1980, 8: 127-130.
13. Li, F. Y., Tan, C. W., Shi, Y. L. et al., Mixing rate of sediment in the Okinawa Trough, Marine Science (in Chinese), 1996, 6: 54-57.
14. Jung, H. S., Lee, C. B., Jeong, K. S. et al., Geochemical and mineralogical characteristics in two-color core sediments from the Korea Deep Ocean Study (KODOS) area, northeast equatorial Pacific, Marine Geology, 1998, 144: 295-309.
15. 210Pb dating by low background gamma counting, Hydrobiologia, 1986, 141: 21-27.
16. Goldberg, E. D., Koide, M., Geochronological studies of the deep-sea sediments by the ionium-thorium method, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1962, 26: 417-443.
17. Guinasso, Jr. N. L., Schink, D. R., Quantitative estimates of biological mixing rates in abyssal sediments, Journal of Geophysical Research, 1975, 80(21): 3032-3043.
18. 210Pb distribution in submersible-taken deep-sea cores from project famous, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1977, 34: 167-173.
19. Boudreau, B. P., Mathematics of tracer mixing in sediments: I. Spatially dependent diffusive mixing. American Journal of Science, 1986a, 286: 161-198
20. 234Th measurements, Deep-Sea Research II, 1996, 43(4-6): 1339-1364.
21. 210Pb, microfossil and textural indicators, Journal of Marine Research, 1984, 42: 1117-1145.
22. Aller, J. Y., Aller, R. C., Evidence for localized enhancement of biological activity associated with tube and burrow structure in deep-sea sediments at the HEBBLE site, western North Atlantic, Deep-Sea Research, 1986, 33: 755-790.
23. 210Pb distribution in northeast Atlantic sediments: subsurface anomalies caused by non-local mixing, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1986/87, 81: 15-28.
24. Boudreau, B. P., Mathematics of tracer mixing in sediments: II. Non-local mixing and biological conveyor belt phenomena, American Journal of Science, 1986b, 286: 199-238.
25. Smith, C. R., Levin, L. A., Hoover, D. J. et al., Variations in bioturbation across the oxygen minimum zone in the northwest Arabian Sea, Deep-Sea Research H, 2000, 47: 227-257.
26. Smith, C. R., Berelson, W., Demaster, D. J. et al., Latitudinal variations in benthic processes in the abyssal equatorial Pacific: Control by biogenic particle flux, Deep-Sea Research II, 1997, 44: 2295-2317.
27. exc, Deep-Sea Research II, 2001, 48: 3569-3592.
28. Turnewitsch, R., Witte, U., Graf, G., Bioturbation in the abyssal Arabian Sea: influence of fauna and food supply, Deep-Sea Research II, 2000, 47: 2877-2911.
29. Wheatcroft, R. A., Smith, C. R., Jumars, P. A., Dynamics of surficial trace assemblages in the deep sea, Deep-Sea Research, 1989, 36(1): 71-91.
30. Gage, J. D., Tyler, P. A., Deep-Sea Biology - A Natural History of Organisms at the Deep-Sea Floor, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, 337-356.
31. 234Th downcore distributions, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1994, 128: 545-562.