Transport of Gas and Solutes in Permeable Estuarine Sediments

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Huettel
Keyword(s):  
Estuarine Sediments

Tracing Estuarine Sediments by Neutron Activation

1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Ecker ◽  
John F. Sustar ◽  
William T. Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Neutron Activation ◽  
Estuarine Sediments

scholarly journals Benthic fluxes of dissolved organic nitrogen in the lower St. Lawrence estuary and implications for selective organic matter degradation

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 7609-7622 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Alkhatib ◽  
P. A. del Giorgio ◽  
Y. Gelinas ◽  
M. F. Lehmann
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Dissolved Organic Nitrogen ◽  
Organic Nitrogen ◽  
Bottom Water ◽  
Estuarine Sediments ◽  
Internal Source ◽  
Lawrence Estuary ◽  
Element Partitioning ◽  
Sediment Porewaters ◽  
St Lawrence Estuary

Abstract. The distribution of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) and carbon (DOC) in sediment porewaters was determined at nine locations along the St. Lawrence estuary and in the gulf of St. Lawrence. In a previous manuscript (Alkhatib et al., 2012a), we have shown that this study area is characterized by gradients in the sedimentary particulate organic matter (POM) reactivity, bottom water oxygen concentrations, and benthic respiration rates. Based on the porewater profiles, we estimated the benthic diffusive fluxes of DON and DOC in the same area. Our results show that DON fluxed out of the sediments at significant rates (110 to 430 μmol m−2 d−1). DON fluxes were positively correlated with sedimentary POM reactivity and varied inversely with sediment oxygen exposure time (OET), suggesting direct links between POM quality, aerobic remineralization and the release of DON to the water column. DON fluxes were on the order of 30 to 64% of the total benthic inorganic fixed N loss due to denitrification, and often exceeded the diffusive nitrate fluxes into the sediments. Hence they represented a large fraction of the total benthic N exchange, a result that is particularly important in light of the fact that DON fluxes are usually not accounted for in estuarine and coastal zone nutrient budgets. In contrast to DON, DOC fluxes out of the sediments did not show any significant spatial variation along the Laurentian Channel (LC) between the estuary and the gulf (2100 ± 100 μmol m−2 d−1). The molar C / N ratio of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in porewater and the overlying bottom water varied significantly along the transect, with lowest C / N in the lower estuary (5–6) and highest C / N (> 10) in the gulf. Large differences between the C / N ratios of porewater DOM and POM are mainly attributed to a combination of selective POM hydrolysis and elemental fractionation during subsequent DOM mineralization, but selective adsorption of DOM to mineral phases could not be excluded as a potential C / N fractionating process. The extent of this C- versus N- element partitioning seems to be linked to POM reactivity and redox conditions in the sediment porewaters. Our results thus highlight the variable effects selective organic matter (OM) preservation can have on bulk sedimentary C / N ratios, decoupling the primary source C / N signatures from those in sedimentary paleoenvironmental archives. Our study further underscores that the role of estuarine sediments as efficient sinks of bioavailable nitrogen is strongly influenced by the release of DON during early diagenetic reactions, and that DON fluxes from continental margin sediments represent an important internal source of N to the ocean.

Assessment of ex-situ chemical washing of heavy metals from estuarine sediments around an industrial harbor in Southern Taiwan

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 3108-3122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Jen Shih ◽  
Syuan-Yao Syu ◽  
Chiu-Wen Chen ◽  
Chih-Feng Chen ◽  
Cheng-Di Dong
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Estuarine Sediments ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Chemical Washing ◽  
Southern Taiwan

Solute Exchange by Convection Within Estuarine Sediments

1996 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.T. Webster ◽  
S.J. Norquay ◽  
F.C. Ross ◽  
R.A. Wooding
Keyword(s):  
Estuarine Sediments ◽  
Solute Exchange

Measuring the acute toxicity of estuarine sediments

1989 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 1035-1048 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore H. Dewitt ◽  
Richard C. Swartz ◽  
Janet O. Lamberson
Keyword(s):  
Acute Toxicity ◽  
Estuarine Sediments

An experimental study on dredge spoil of estuarine sediments in the bay of seine (France): A morphosedimentary assessment

2016 ◽  
Vol 116 ◽  
pp. 89-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stella Marmin ◽  
Patrick Lesueur ◽  
Jean Claude Dauvin ◽  
Sandrine Samson ◽  
Patrice Tournier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Estuarine Sediments ◽  
Dredge Spoil
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