The Burial of Biogenic Silica, Organic Carbon and Organic Nitrogen in the Sediments of the East China Sea.pdfVIP

J．OceanUniv．China(OceanicandCoastalSeaResearch) DOI10．1007／sl1802．015．2522．3 ISSN 1672-5182，201514(3)：464-470 http：／／www．ouc．edu．cn／xbywb／ E—maihxbywb@ouc．edu．cn TheBurialofBiogenicSilica,OrganicCarbonandOrganic NitrogenintheSedimentsoftheEastChinaSea WANGLisha)， ZHANG Chuansong)， andSHIXiaoyong1),2)，。)， ， ， 1)CollegeofChemtryandChemicalEngineering，OceanUniversityofChina，Qingdao266100，P．R．China 2)KeyLaboratoryofMarineChemistryTheoryandTechnology，MinistryofEducation，OceanUniversityofChina， Qingdao266100，P．R．China 3)NationalMarineHazardMitigationService，Bejiing100194，P．R．China (ReceivedOctober21，2014；revisedFebruary 1，2015；acceptedFebruary7，2015) @OceanUniversityofChina．SciencePressandSpringer-VerlagBerlinHeidelberg2015 Abstract WesampledthesedimentsoftheEastChinaSeaduring2005and2006，andanalysedthecontentsofthebiogenicmat- ters：biogenicsilica，organiccarbon，andorganicnitrogen．From thesurfacedistributionwefoundhtecontentsofhtesesubstancesto beintherangesOf0．72％一1．64％，0．043％一0．82％，and0．006％一0．11％，respectively．Theirdistributionsweresimilartoeachother, beinghighinsidetheHangzhouBayandlow outsidethebay．Theverticalvariationsofthecontentswerealsosimilar．Inorderto discusstherelationbetweenhtem weanalysedthevraiationsofcontentwithdepth．Thevincreasedinhtefirst7cm andthende- creasedwithdepth．TheOeakswerefoundatdepthsbetween20tO25cm．Thedistributionofcarbonateshowedanoppositetrendto thatofbiogenicmatters．Thecontentoftotalcarbonwasrelativelystablewithrespecttodepth，andhteratioofhighorganiccarbon tocarbonateshowedalow burialefficiencyofcarbonate．whichmenasthatthemainburialofcrabonisorganiccarbon．Inorderto discussthesourceoforganicmatters，theratiooforganiccarbontoorganicnitrogenwascalculated，whichwas8．01to9．65，indicat— ingthattheorganicmatterinhtesedimentswasderivedmainlyfrom phytoplanktoninhteseawater． Keywords burial；sediment；biogenicmatters；carbonandnitrogenratio；EastChinaSea