Articles | Volume 15, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-1243-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-1243-2018
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02 Mar 2018
Research article |  | 02 Mar 2018

Impacts of flocculation on the distribution and diagenesis of iron in boreal estuarine sediments

Tom Jilbert, Eero Asmala, Christian Schröder, Rosa Tiihonen, Jukka-Pekka Myllykangas, Joonas J. Virtasalo, Aarno Kotilainen, Pasi Peltola, Päivi Ekholm, and Susanna Hietanen

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Iron is a common dissolved element in river water, recognizable by its orange-brown colour. Here we show that when rivers reach the ocean much of this iron settles to the sediments by a process known as flocculation. The iron is then used by microbes in coastal sediments, which are important hotspots in the global carbon cycle.
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