Articles | Volume 15, issue 22
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-6979-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-6979-2018
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21 Nov 2018
Research article |  | 21 Nov 2018

Large variations in iron input to an oligotrophic Baltic Sea estuary: impact on sedimentary phosphorus burial

Wytze K. Lenstra, Matthias Egger, Niels A. G. M. van Helmond, Emma Kritzberg, Daniel J. Conley, and Caroline P. Slomp

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We show that burial rates of phosphorus (P) in an estuary in the northern Baltic Sea are very high. We demonstrate that at high sedimentation rates, P retention in the sediment is related to the formation of vivianite. With a reactive transport model, we assess the sensitivity of sedimentary vivianite formation. We suggest that enrichments of iron and P in the sediment are linked to periods of enhanced riverine input of Fe, which subsequently strongly enhances P burial in coastal sediments.
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