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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 45, Issue 9, Pages 4134-4142Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2018GL077009
Keywords
carbon; 14C; Coastal Oceans; climate change; clustering; deconvolution
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- SNF CAPS-LOCK2 project
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41520104009]
- 111 Project [B13030]
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Coastal oceans play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle, and are increasingly affected by anthropogenic forcing. Understanding carbon cycling in coastal environments is hindered by convoluted sources and myriad processes that vary over a range of spatial and temporal scales. In this study, we deconvolve the complex mosaic of organic carbon manifested in Chinese Marginal Sea (CMS) sediments using a novel numerical clustering algorithm based on C-14 and total OC content. Results reveal five regions that encompass geographically distinct depositional settings. Complementary statistical analyses reveal contrasting region-dependent controls on carbon dynamics and composition. Overall, clustering is shown to be highly effective in demarcating areas of distinct organic facies by disentangling intertwined organic geochemical patterns resulting from superimposed effects of OC provenance, reworking and deposition on a shelf region exhibiting pronounced spatial heterogeneity. This information will aid in constraining region-specific budgets of carbon burial and carbon cycle processes.
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