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Title: Erosion of organic carbon in the Arctic as a geological carbon dioxide sink.
Authors: Hilton, Robert G., Galy, Valier, Gaillardet, Jérôme, Dellinger, Mathieu, Bryant, Charlotte, O'Regan, Matt, Gröcke, Darren R., Coxall, Helen, Bouchez, Julien, Calmels, Damien
Source: Nature. 8/6/2015, Vol. 524 Issue 7563, p84-87. 4p. 3 Charts, 7 Graphs, 1 Map.
Subjects: Soils, Carbon in soils, Soil erosion, Carbon dioxide sinks, Carbon cycle, Mineralization, River ecology
Geographic Terms: Arctic regions
Abstract: Soils of the northern high latitudes store carbon over millennial timescales (thousands of years) and contain approximately double the carbon stock of the atmosphere. Warming and associated permafrost thaw can expose soil organic carbon and result in mineralization and carbon dioxide (CO2) release. However, some of this soil organic carbon may be eroded and transferred to rivers. If it escapes degradation during river transport and is buried in marine sediments, then it can contribute to a longer-term (more than ten thousand years), geological CO2 sink. Despite this recognition, the erosional flux and fate of particulate organic carbon (POC) in large rivers at high latitudes remains poorly constrained. Here, we quantify the source of POC in the Mackenzie River, the main sediment supplier to the Arctic Ocean, and assess its flux and fate. We combine measurements of radiocarbon, stable carbon isotopes and element ratios to correct for rock-derived POC. Our samples reveal that the eroded biospheric POC has resided in the basin for millennia, with a mean radiocarbon age of 5,800 ± 800 years, much older than the POC in large tropical rivers. From the measured biospheric POC content and variability in annual sediment yield, we calculate a biospheric POC flux of teragrams of carbon per year from the Mackenzie River, which is three times the CO2 drawdown by silicate weathering in this basin. Offshore, we find evidence for efficient terrestrial organic carbon burial over the Holocene period, suggesting that erosion of organic carbon-rich, high-latitude soils may result in an important geological CO2 sink. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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