Determining sources of deep-sea mud by organic matter signatures in the Sunda trench and Aceh basin off Sumatra

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2017-06-06
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  • 10.1007/s00367-017-0510-x
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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The content, optically determined properties, and stable isotope composition of organic carbon in fine-grained sediment cores were analyzed to investigate the origins of deep-sea sediments deposited in the Aceh forearc basin and on the Sunda trench floor off Sumatra from the late Pleistocene to the Holocene. In the Aceh basin, the depositional frequency of turbidite mud decreased as sea level rose during the deglaciation. The terrigenous organic carbon content was high at the end of the last glacial period, whereas during the deglaciation most of the organic carbon was of marine origin. In the Sunda trench, the Holocene turbidites consisted of remobilized slope sediments from two different sources: sediments derived from the old Bengal/Nicobar fan included thermally matured organic fragments, whereas those derived from the trench slope contained little terrigenous organic carbon.

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  • Geo-Marine Letters

    Geo-Marine Letters 37 (6), 549-559, 2017-06-06

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