Microbial carbon isotope fractionation to produce extraordinarily heavy methane in aging hydrothermal plumes over the southwestern Okinawa Trough
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- GAMO TOSHITAKA
- Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University
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- TSUNOGAI URUMU
- Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University
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- ICHIBAYASHI SHINSUKE
- Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University
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- CHIBA HITOSHI
- Department of Earth Sciences, Okayama University
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- OBATA HAJIME
- Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo
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- OOMORI TAMOTSU
- Faculty of Science, University of the Ryukyus
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- NOGUCHI TAKURO
- Faculty of Science, University of the Ryukyus
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- BAKER EDWARD T.
- NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
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- DOI TAKASHI
- School of Environmental Science, University of Shiga Prefecture
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- MARUO MASAHIRO
- School of Environmental Science, University of Shiga Prefecture
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- SANO YUJI
- Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo
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Within neutrally buoyant hydrothermal plumes derived from the Yonaguni Knoll IV hydrothermal field (24°51´ N, 122°42´ E, D = 1,370-1,385 m) in the southwestern Okinawa Trough back-arc basin, we obtained profiles of dissolved manganese (Mn), helium isotopes (3He/4He), methane (CH4) and its stable carbon isotope ratio (δ13CPDB) in young to old plume waters. We first mapped the spatial distribution of hydrothermal plumes by towing a fixed array of optical sensors (Miniature Autonomous Plume Recorders: MAPRs) above the field. We then made water column observations and samplings using a CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth sensors)-Carousel package with a transmissometer and Niskin-X bottles at five locations, with distances between 0.6 and 6.1 km from the hydrothermally active center so far discovered. Vertical profiles of light transmission and chemical tracers indicated triple-layered plumes, the centers of which were at depths of 700-800 m, ∼1,050 m and ∼1,200 m. The CH4 concentrations and δ13C values for the 1,200-m plume ranged between 1,026 and 10 nmol/kg, and between -22.4 and +40.4‰ (the highest δ13C value yet reported for oceanic CH4), respectively, indicating active microbial CH4 oxidation accompanied by the δ13C increase for residual CH4. The δ13C(CH4) was shown to be useful for tracing such a “microbial plume” whose CH4 concentration has already fallen to almost the background level. By applying the Rayleigh distillation equation for a closed system, we estimated the kinetic isotope fractionation factor of 1.012 for the CH4 oxidation process occurring within the hydrothermal plumes deeper than 1,000 m.
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- GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL
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GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL 44 (6), 477-487, 2010
一般社団法人日本地球化学会
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- CRID
- 1390001204552998528
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- NII論文ID
- 10027719969
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- AA00654975
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- 1:CAS:528:DC%2BC3MXjtFahsr0%3D
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- 18805973
- 00167002
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- 2115/54558
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- 10936277
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