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From soil to sea: sources and transport of organic carbon traced by tetraether lipids in the monsoonal Godavari River, India
Frédérique M. S. A. Kirkels
Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the
Netherlands
Huub M. Zwart
Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the
Netherlands
Muhammed O. Usman
Geological Institute, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
present address: Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Suning Hou
Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the
Netherlands
Camilo Ponton
Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Woods Hole, MA, USA
present address: Geology Department, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA
Liviu Giosan
Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Timothy I. Eglinton
Geological Institute, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the
Netherlands
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Short summary
Soil organic carbon (SOC) that is transferred to the ocean by rivers forms a long-term sink of atmospheric CO2 upon burial on the ocean floor. We here test if certain bacterial membrane lipids can be used to trace SOC through the monsoon-fed Godavari River basin in India. We find that these lipids trace the mobilisation and transport of SOC in the wet season but that these lipids are not transferred far into the sea. This suggests that the burial of SOC on the sea floor is limited here.
Soil organic carbon (SOC) that is transferred to the ocean by rivers forms a long-term sink of...
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