Synchronous response of sedimentary organic carbon accumulation on the inner shelf of the East China Sea to the water impoundment of Three Gorges and Gezhouba Dams

Jia LIN; Qing ZHU; Yuehui HONG; Lirong YUAN; Jinzhong LIU; Xiaoming XU; Jianghai WANG

doi:10.1007/s00343-017-6216-0

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Synchronous response of sedimentary organic carbon accumulation on the inner shelf of the East China Sea to the water impoundment of Three Gorges and Gezhouba Dams

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- Synchronous response of sedimentary organic carbon accumulation on the inner shelf of the East China Sea to the water impoundment of Three Gorges and Gezhouba Dams
- Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 36, Issue 1, Pages: 153-164(2018)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Resources and Coastal Engineering/South China Sea Bioresource Exploitation and Utilization Collaborative Innovation Center, School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
  2.Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China
- Author bio：
  
  XU Xiaoming, xxm8302@126.com
  WANG Jianghai, wangjhai@mail.sysu.edu.cn
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-017-6216-0
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- Received：11 August 2016，
  
  Accepted：14 September 2016，
  
  Online First：26 September 2016，
  
  Published：2018-01
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Jia LIN, Qing ZHU, Yuehui HONG, et al. Synchronous response of sedimentary organic carbon accumulation on the inner shelf of the East China Sea to the water impoundment of Three Gorges and Gezhouba Dams[J]. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2018, 36(1): 153-164.
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Jia LIN, Qing ZHU, Yuehui HONG, et al. Synchronous response of sedimentary organic carbon accumulation on the inner shelf of the East China Sea to the water impoundment of Three Gorges and Gezhouba Dams[J]. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2018, 36(1): 153-164. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-017-6216-0.

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Abstract

Coastal seas

located between continents and the open ocean

are an important active carbon pool. The sedimentary total organic carbon (TOC) in these areas is a mixture of terrestrial and marine sources

and can be a powerful proxy for tracing natural processes and human activities. In this study

one fine-grained sediment core (DH5-1) from the inner shelf of the East China Sea was systematically analyzed for TOC and black carbon (BC) contents and TOC stable carbon isotope ratios (δ

C). By combining these data with

210

Pb dating

an improved carbon correction model and a two end-member mixing model

we reconstructed century-scale high-resolution sequences of corrected TOC

terrestrial TOC and marine TOC contents and identified two carbon depletion events in the DH5-1 record. The two events

shown as two minima in the TOC profiles

correspond temporally to 1985-1987 AD and 2003-2006 AD

which exactly matches the water impoundment of the Gezhouba Dam and Three Gorges Dam

respectively. In addition

the variations in TOC contents and δ

C values before

during or after the minima demonstrate a relationship between the depletion events and water impoundment of the dams on the Changjiang River. The TOC reductions may represent synchronous responses of sedimentary TOC and resultant ecological effects on the inner shelf of the East China Sea to the water impoundment of the dams. These new TOC records reflect the interaction between natural and anthropogenic processes and

accordingly

provide a deep insight and important references for assessing marine ecological effects resulting from water impoundment of largescale dams.

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