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| Mejanelle, Laurence; Riviere, Beatrice; Pinturier, Laurence; Khripounoff, Alexis; Baudin, Francois; Dachs, Jordi. |
| Hydrocarbons were analyzed in sediments from the Congo River deep-sea fan, from the Congo River, and in sinking particles collected by sediment traps 40 m above the sediment. Studied sites encompassed three lobes of decreasing age of formation along the canyon: sites A, F and C and a another lobe system, disconnected from the active channel since 4 ka, Site E. Terrestrial long-chain odd n-alkanes were dominant in all sediments of the lobe system. Unsaturated terpenoids sourced by higher plants, such as gammacerene, lupene, ursene and oleanene, were also detected. At site C, characterized by high accumulation rates (10–20 cm yr−1), the organic matter spends less time in the oxic layer than at other sites and high phytadiene concentrations (10 to 17 μg... |
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Palavras-chave: Congo fan; Hydrocarbons; NAH; Hopanes; Hopenes; Sediments; Turbidite system. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00388/49902/50472.pdf |
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