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Articles | Volume 13, issue 20
Articles | Volume 13, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5771-2016
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5771-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 13, issue 20
Research article
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19 Oct 2016
Research article |  | 19 Oct 2016

Substantial stores of sedimentary carbon held in mid-latitude fjords

Craig Smeaton, William E. N. Austin, Althea L. Davies, Agnès Baltzer, Richard E. Abell, and John A. Howe

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Quantifying the carbon (C) stored within coastal sediments is key to improving our knowledge of the local and global C cycle. Here we present a new methodology to calculate the quantity of C held within coastal sediments. Through the application of this method to a mid-latitude fjord we have shown that a substantial quantity of C is held within these sediments. Additionally, we discovered that these sediments are more effective long-term stores of C than their terrestrial equivalents.
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