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| Title: | Diagenesis of vascular plant organic matter components during burial in lake sediments |
| Authors: | Meyers, Philip A.
Leenheer, Mary J.
Bourbonniere, Richard A. |
| Issue Date: | Mar-1995 |
| Publisher: | Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media |
| Citation: | Meyers, Philip A.; Leenheer, Mary J.; Bourbonniere, Richard A.; (1995). "Diagenesis of vascular plant organic matter components during burial in lake sediments." Aquatic Geochemistry 1 (1): 35-52. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/41810> |
| Abstract: | Diagenetic changes are difficult to distinguish from variations in sources of organic matter to sediments. Organic geochemical comparisons of samples of wood, bark, and needles from a white spruce ( Picea glauca ) living today and one buried for 10,000 years in lake sediments have been used to identify the effects of diagenesis on vascular plant matter. Important biogeochemical changes are evident in the aged spruce components, even though the cellular structures of the samples are well preserved. Concentrations of total fatty acids dramatically diminish; unsaturated and shorter chainlength components are preferentially lost from the molecular distributions. Concentrations of total alcohols are similar in the modern and 10,000-year-old wood and bark but markedly lowered in the aged needles. Hydrocarbon concentrations and distributions show little diagenetic change in the 10,000-year-old plant materials. Cellulose components in the wood decrease relative to lignin components, although both types of materials remain in high concentration in comparison to other organic components. Aromatization of abietic acid proceeds more rapidly in buried spruce wood than in bark; retene is the dominant polyaromatic hydrocarbon in the aged wood. In contrast to the variety of changes evident in molecular compositions, neither σ 13 C values nor C/N ratios differ significantly in the bulk organic matter of modern and aged spruce components. |
| ISSN: | 1380-6165
1573-1421 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/BF01025230 |
| Appears in Collections: | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed
Geological Sciences, Department of
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