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NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2016078118
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ocean sediment; porewater; iron colloid; organo-mineral; iron isotopes
资金
- UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) [NE/F017197/1, NE/H004394/1]
- NERC fellowship at the University of Oxford [NE/K009532/1]
- University Academic Fellowship at the University of Leeds
- University of South Carolina
- European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program [724289]
This study reveals that lithogenic colloid production is the primary mechanism driving iron supply in sediment porewaters in the South Atlantic, which differs from the prevailing understanding. Iron colloids, closely associated with organic carbon abundance, may form a large exchangeable reservoir of organo-mineral Fe colloids in oxic ocean sediments.
Dissolution of marine sediment is a key source of dissolved iron (Fe) that regulates the ocean carbon cycle. Currently, our prevailing understanding, encapsulated in ocean models, focuses on low-oxygen reductive supply mechanisms and neglects the emerging evidence from iron isotopes in seawater and sediment porewaters for additional nonreductive dissolution processes. Here, we combine measurements of Fe colloids and dissolved delta Fe-56 in shallow porewaters spanning the full depth of the South Atlantic Ocean to demonstrate that it is lithogenic colloid production that fuels sedimentary iron supply away from low-oxygen systems. Iron colloids are ubiquitous in these oxic ocean sediment porewaters and account for the lithogenic isotope signature of dissolved Fe (delta Fe-56 = +0.07 +/- 0.07 parts per thousand) within and between ocean basins. Isotope model experiments demonstrate that only lithogenic weathering in both oxic and nitrogenous zones, rather than precipitation or ligand complexation of reduced Fe species, can account for the production of these porewater Fe colloids. The broader covariance between colloidal Fe and organic carbon (OC) abundance suggests that sorption of OC may control the nanoscale stability of Fe minerals by inhibiting the loss of Fe(oxyhydr)oxides to more crystalline minerals in the sediment. Oxic ocean sediments can therefore generate a large exchangeable reservoir of organo-mineral Fe colloids at the sediment water interface (a rusty source) that dominates the benthic supply of dissolved Fe to the ocean interior, alongside reductive supply pathways from shallower continental margins.
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