An improved method for quantitatively measuring the sequences of total organic carbon and black carbon in marine sediment cores

Xiaoming XU; Qing ZHU; Qianzhi ZHOU; Jinzhong LIU; Jianping YUAN; Jianghai WANG

doi:10.1007/s00343-017-6229-8

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An improved method for quantitatively measuring the sequences of total organic carbon and black carbon in marine sediment cores

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- An improved method for quantitatively measuring the sequences of total organic carbon and black carbon in marine sediment cores
- Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 36, Issue 1, Pages: 105-113(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 510275, China
  2.Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China
- Author bio：
  
  YUAN Jianping, yuanjp@mail.sysu.edu.cn
  WANG Jianghai, wangjhai@mail.sysu.edu.cn
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s00343-017-6229-8
  CLC：
- Received：11 August 2016，
  
  Accepted：12 September 2016，
  
  Online First：10 November 2016，
  
  Published：2018-01
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Xiaoming XU, Qing ZHU, Qianzhi ZHOU, et al. An improved method for quantitatively measuring the sequences of total organic carbon and black carbon in marine sediment cores[J]. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2018, 36(1): 105-113.
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Xiaoming XU, Qing ZHU, Qianzhi ZHOU, et al. An improved method for quantitatively measuring the sequences of total organic carbon and black carbon in marine sediment cores[J]. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2018, 36(1): 105-113. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-017-6229-8.

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Abstract

Understanding global carbon cycle is critical to uncover the mechanisms of global warming and remediate its adverse effects on human activities. Organic carbon in marine sediments is an indispensable part of the global carbon reservoir in global carbon cycling. Evaluating such a reservoir calls for quantitative studies of marine carbon burial

which closely depend on quantifying total organic carbon and black carbon in marine sediment cores and subsequently on obtaining their high-resolution temporal sequences. However

the conventional methods for detecting the contents of total organic carbon or black carbon cannot resolve the following specific difficulties

i.e.

(1) a very limited amount of each subsample versus the diverse analytical items

(2) a low and fluctuating recovery rate of total organic carbon or black carbon versus the reproducibility of carbon data

and (3) a large number of subsamples versus the rapid batch measurements. In this work

(i) adopting the customized disposable ceramic crucibles with the microporecontrolled ability

(ii) developing self-made or customized facilities for the procedures of acidification and chemothermal oxidization

and (iii) optimizing procedures and carbon-sulfur analyzer

we have built a novel Wang-Xu-Yuan method (the WXY method) for measuring the contents of total organic carbon or black carbon in marine sediment cores

which includes the procedures of pretreatment

weighing

acidification

chemothermal oxidation and quantification; and can fully meet the requirements of establishing their highresolution temporal sequences

whatever in the recovery

experimental efficiency

accuracy and reliability of the measurements

and homogeneity of samples. In particular

the usage of disposable ceramic crucibles leads to evidently simplify the experimental scenario

which further results in the very high recovery rates for total organic carbon and black carbon. This new technique may provide a significant support for revealing the mechanism of carbon burial and evaluating the capacity of marine carbon accumulation and sequestration.

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