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| Rabouille, C.; Dennielou, Bernard; Baudin, F.; Raimonet, M.; Droz, Laurence; Khripounoff, Alexis; Martinez, P.; Mejanelle, L.; Michalopoulos, P.; Pastor, Lucie; Pruski, A.; Ragueneau, Olivier; Reyss, J.-l.; Ruffine, Livio; Schnyder, J.; Stetten, E.; Taillefert, M.; Tourolle, Julie; Olu, Karine. |
| Carbon and silicon cycles at the Earth surface are linked to long-term variations of atmospheric CO2 and oceanic primary production. In these cycles, the river-sea interface is considered a biogeochemical hotspot, and deltas presently receive and preserve a major fraction of riverine particles in shallow water sediments. In contrast, periods of glacial maximum lowstand were characterized by massive exports of sediments to the deep-sea via submarine canyons and accumulation in deep-sea fans. Here, we calculate present-day mass balances for organic carbon (OC) and amorphous silica (aSi) in the terminal lobe complex of the Congo River deep-sea fan as an analogue for glacial periods. We show that this lobe complex constitutes a megasink with the current... |
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Palavras-chave: Present; Paleoceanography; South Atlantic; Inorganic geochemistry; Organic geochemistry; Sedimentology-marine cores. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00511/62289/66720.pdf |
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| Olu, Karine; Decker, Carole; Pastor, Lucie; Caprais, Jean-claude; Khripounoff, Alexis; Morineaux, Marie; Ain Baziz, M.; Menot, Lenaick; Rabouille, C.. |
| Methane-rich fluids arising from organic matter diagenesis in deep sediment layers sustain chemosynthesis-based ecosystems along continental margins. This type of cold seep develops on pockmarks along the Congo margin, where fluids migrate from deep-buried paleo-channels of the Congo River, acting as reservoirs. Similar ecosystems based on shallow methane production occur in the terminal lobes of the present-day Congo deep-sea fan, which is supplied by huge quantities of primarily terrestrial material carried by turbiditic currents along the 800 km channel, and deposited at depths of up to nearly 5000 m. In this paper, we explore the effect of this carbon enrichment of deep-sea sediments on benthic macrofauna, along the prograding lobes fed by the current... |
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Palavras-chave: Chemosynthesis-based ecosystems; Cold seeps; Organic rich sediments; Macrofaunal communities. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00384/49561/50053.pdf |
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| Pastor, Lucie; Toffin, Laurent; Decker, Carole; Olu, Karine; Cathalot, Cecile; Lesongeur, Francoise; Caprais, Jean-claude; Bessette, Sandrine; Brandily, Christophe; Taillefert, M.; Rabouille, C.. |
| Geochemical profiles (SO42-, H2S, CH4, δ13CH4) and phylogenetic diversity of Archaea and Bacteria from two oceanographic cruises dedicated to the lobes sediments of the Congo deep-sea fan are presented in this paper. In this area, organic-rich turbidites reach 5000 m and allow the establishment of patchy cold-seep-like habitats including microbial mats, reduced sediments, and vesicomyid bivalves assemblages. These bivalves live in endosymbiosis with sulfur-oxidizing bacteria and use sulfides to perform chemosynthesis. In these habitats, unlike classical abyssal sediments, anoxic processes are dominant. Total oxygen uptake fluxes and methane fluxes measured with benthic chambers are in the same range as those of active cold-seep environments, and oxygen is... |
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| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00376/48767/49164.pdf |
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| Pastor, L.; Cathalot, C.; Deflandre, B.; Viollier, E.; Soetaert, K.; Meysman, F. J. R.; Ulses, C.; Metzger, E.; Rabouille, C.. |
| In situ oxygen microprofiles, sediment organic carbon content, and pore-water concentrations of nitrate, ammonium, iron, manganese, and sulfides obtained in sediments from the Rhone River prodelta and its adjacent continental shelf were used to constrain a numerical diagenetic model. Results showed that (1) the organic matter from the Rhone River is composed of a fraction of fresh material associated to high first-order degradation rate constants (11-33 yr(-1)); (2) the burial efficiency (burial/input ratio) in the Rh boolean AND one prodelta (within 3 km of the river outlet) can be up to 80 %, and decreases to similar to 20% on the adjacent continental shelf 10-15 km further offshore; (3) there is a large contribution of anoxic processes to total... |
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| Ano: 2011 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00303/41423/40614.pdf |
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| Rabouille, C.; Caprais, Jean-claude; Lansard, B.; Crassous, Philippe; Dedieu, K.; Reyss, J. L.; Khripounoff, Alexis. |
| A study of organic carbon mineralization from the Congo continental shelf to the abyssal plain through the Congo submarine channel and Angola Margin was undertaken using in situ measurements of sediment oxygen demand as a tracer of benthic carbon recycling. Two measurement techniques were coupled on a single autonomous platform: in situ benthic chambers and microelectrodes, which provided total and diffusive oxygen uptake as well as oxygen microdistributions in porewaters. In addition, sediment trap fluxes, sediment composition (Org-C, Tot-N, CaCO3, porosity) and radionuclide profiles provided measurements of, respectively input fluxes and burial rate of organic and inorganic compounds. The in situ results show that the oxygen consumption on this margin... |
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Palavras-chave: Sediment carbon budget; Organic carbon burial; Congo Submarine Canyon; Organic carbon recycling in sediments; In situ oxygen demand. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2009/publication-7316.pdf |
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| Cathalot, C.; Rabouille, C.; Pastor, L.; Deflandre, B.; Viollier, E.; Buscail, R.; Treignier, C.; Pruski, A.. |
| The biogeochemical fate of the particulate organic inputs from the Rhône River was studied on a seasonal basis by measuring sediment oxygen uptake rates in the prodelta, both during normal and flood regimes. On a selected set of 10 stations in the prodelta and nearby continental shelf, in situ and laboratory measurements of sediment oxygen demand were performed in early spring and summer 2007 and late spring and winter 2008. In and ex situ sediment Diffusive Oxygen Uptakes (DOU) did not show any significant differences except for shallowest organic rich stations. DOU rates show highest values concentrated close to the river mouth (approx. 20 mmol O2 m-2 d-1) and decrease offshore to values around 4.5 mmol O2 m-2 d-1 preferentially in a south west... |
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| Ano: 2009 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00303/41428/40611.pdf |
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| Cathalot, C.; Rabouille, C.; Pastor, L.; Deflandre, B.; Viollier, E.; Buscail, R.; Gremare, A.; Treignier, C.; Pruski, A.. |
| River deltas are particularly important in the marine carbon cycle as they represent the transition between terrestrial and marine carbon: linked to major burial zones, they are reprocessing zones where large carbon fluxes can be mineralized. In order to estimate this mineralization, sediment oxygen uptake rates were measured in continental shelf sediments and river prodelta over different seasons near the outlet of the Rhone River in the Mediterranean Sea. On a selected set of 10 stations in the river prodelta and nearby continental shelf, in situ diffusive oxygen uptake (DOU) and laboratory total oxygen uptake (TOU) measurements were performed in early spring and summer 2007 and late spring and winter 2008. In and ex situ DOU did not show any significant... |
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| Ano: 2010 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00303/41427/40610.pdf |
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| Rabouille, C.; Olu, Karine; Baudin, F.; Khripounoff, Alexis; Dennielou, Bernard; Arnaud-haond, Sophie; Babonneau, Nathalie; Bayle, Christophe; Beckler, J.; Bessette, Sandrine; Bombled, B.; Bourgeois, S.; Brandily, Christophe; Caprais, Jean-claude; Cathalot, Cecile; Charlier, K.; Corvaisier, R.; Croguennec, Chantal; Cruaud, Perrine; Decker, Carole; Droz, L.; Gayet, Nicolas; Godfroy, Anne; Hourdez, S.; Le Bruchec, J.; Saout, Johan; Le Saout, Marie-helene; Lesongeur, Francoise; Martinez, P.; Mejanelle, L.; Michalopoulos, P.; Mouchel, Olivier; Noel, Philippe; Pastor, Lucie; Picot, M.; Pignet, Patricia; Pozzato, L.; Pruski, A. M.; Rabiller, Manuella; Raimonet, M.; Ragueneau, O.; Reyss, J. L.; Rodier, Philippe; Ruesch, Blandine; Ruffine, Livio; Savignac, F.; Senyarich, C.; Schnyder, J.; Sen, Arunima; Stetten, E.; Sun, Ming Yi; Taillefert, M.; Teixeira, S.; Tisnerat-laborde, N.; Toffin, Laurent; Tourolle, Julie; Toussaint, F.; Vetion, G.; Jouanneau, J. M.; Bez, M.. |
| The presently active region of the Congo deep-sea fan (around 330 000 km2), called the terminal lobes or lobe complex, covers an area of 2500 km2 at 4700–5100 m water depth and 750–800 km offshore. It is a unique sedimentary area in the world ocean fed by a submarine canyon and a channel-levee system which presently deliver large amounts of organic carbon originating from the Congo River by turbidity currents. This particularity is due to the deep incision of the shelf by the Congo canyon, up to 30 km into the estuary, which funnels the Congo River sediments into the deep-sea. The connection between the river and the canyon is unique for major world rivers. In 2011, two cruises (WACS leg 2 and Congolobe) were conducted to simultaneously investigate the... |
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Palavras-chave: Chemosynthetic habitats; Congo deep-sea fan; Fine sediment; Sedimentation rate; Seafloor morphology; Turbidite; Vesicomyidae. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00335/44580/44298.pdf |
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| Pastor, Lucie; Rabouille, C.; Metzger, E.; De Chanvalon, A. Thibault; Viollier, E.; Deflandre, B.. |
| Floods carry sediments to river deltas and the coastal zone, but little is known about the geochemical evolution of this particulate material deposited over a short period of time. Here, we studied two recent contrasting flood deposits in the Rhône River prodelta area (northwestern Mediterranean Sea). We monitored the porewater and solid-phase chemistry over periods ranging from a few days to 6 months after deposition. Non-steady state diagenetic processes associated with episodic deposition promote a wide spectrum of transient redox conditions in the shallow prodelta region of the Rhône. Specific attributes of diagenetic responses depend on the sources of flood material and scale (thickness) of deposition. The first flood unit of 20–30 cm was composed of... |
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| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00449/56049/57568.pdf |
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