the effect of tidal forcing on biogeochemical processes in intertidal salt marsh sediments潮汐的影响迫使在潮间带盐沼泽沉积物生物地球化学过程.pdf

Geochemical Transactions BioMed Central Research article Open Access The effect of tidal forcing on biogeochemical processes in intertidal salt marsh sediments 1 1,2 1 Martial Taillefert* , Stephanie Neuhuber and Gwendolyn Bristow Address: 1School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0340, USA and 2Department of Geodynamics and Sedimentology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria Email: Martial Taillefert* - mtaillef@; Stephanie Neuhuber - stephanie.neuhuber@univie.ac.at; Gwendolyn Bristow - gwen.bristow@ * Corresponding author Published: 13 June 2007 Received: 21 February 2007 Accepted: 13 June 2007 Geochemical Transactions 2007, 8:6 doi:10.1186/1467-4866-8-6 This article is available from: /content/8/1/6 © 2007 Taillefert et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Early diagenetic processes involved in natural organic matter (NOM) oxidation in marine sediments have been for the most part characterized after collecting sediment cores and extracting porewaters. These techniques have proven useful for deep-s