Citation: Takasu H and Nagata T (2015) High Proline Content of Bacteria-Sized Particles in the Western North Pacific and Its Potential as a New Biogeochemical Indicator of Organic Matter Diagenesis. Front. Mar. Sci. 2:110. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2015.00110 High Proline Content of Bacteria-Sized Particles in the Western North Pacific and Its Potential as a New Biogeochemical Indicator of Organic Mat...

The in situ effect of biological activity on herbicide degradation was studied in sediment. Early diagenesis indicators of organic matter (OM) was selected to provide information on the presence and the kinetics of the various biotic and abiotic processes involved in the degradation of fresh organic matter, the vector of herbicides in sediment. Two tandem-coring samples were taken in the Malaus...

Data returned by NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover showed evidence for abundant secondary materials, including Fe-oxides, phyllosilicates, and an amorphous component on below Vera Rubin ridge in the Murray formation. We used equilibrium thermochemical modeling to test hypothesis that altered sediments were deposited as detrital igneous grains subsequently underwent diagenesis. Chem...

AMS (Accelerator Mass Spectrometry) radiocarbon dates for eight potsherds from a single piece of pottery from a wetland archaeological site indicated that charred material from the inner pottery surfaces (5052 ± 12 BP; N = 5) is about 90 (14)C years older than that from the outer surfaces (4961 ± 22 BP; N = 7). We considered three possible causes of this difference: the old wood effect, reservo...

This study successfully isolates a fraction of intra-crystalline proteins from shells of the marine gastropod Patella vulgata and assesses the suitability of these proteins for IcPD (Intra-crystalline Protein Diagenesis) geochronology. We discuss the mineralogical composition of this gastropod, investigated for the first time by X-ray diffraction mapping, and use the results to inform our sampl...

[1] The transformation of hydrated clay minerals (smectite) to anhydrous forms (illite) occurs in the diagenesis of shales in sedimentary basins. The released pore water can lead to excess pore pressures and is of concern in oil drilling operations. Most simply, the process can be modeled as a first-order thermally activated reaction, but an alternative interpretation is that diagenesis occurs ...

Impure reworked evaporitic sandstones, preserved on Meridiani Planum, Mars, are mixtures of roughly equal amounts of altered siliciclastic debris, of basaltic provenance (40F10% by mass), and chemical constituents, dominated by evaporitic minerals (jarosite, Mg-, Ca-sulfatesFchloridesFFe-, Na-sulfates), hematite and possibly secondary silica (60F10%). These chemical constituents and their relat...