15N of organic matter in marine sediments: Sites 1227 and 1230. In Jørgensen, B.B., D'Hondt, S.L., and Miller, D.J. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 201: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 1–30.
doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.201.117.2006
Altabet, M.A., and Francois, R., 1994. Sedimentary nitrogen isotopic ratio as a record for surface ocean nitrate utilization. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 8(1):103–116. doi:10.1029/93GB03396
Altabet, M.A., Murray, D.W., and Prell, W.L., 1999a. Climatically linked oscillations in Arabian Sea denitrification over the past 1 m.y.: implications for the marine N cycle. Paleoceanography, 14(6):732–743. doi:10.1029/1999PA900035
Altabet, M.A., Pilskaln, C., Thunell, R., Pride, C., Sigman, D., Chavez, F., and Francois, R., 1999b. The nitrogen isotope biogeochemistry of sinking particles from the margin of the eastern North Pacific. Deep-Sea Res., Part I, 46(4):655–679. doi:10.1016/S0967-0637(98)00084-3
Berner, R.A., 1980. Early Diagenesis: A Theoretical Approach: Princeton, NJ (Princeton Univ. Press).
Boudreau, B.P., 1997. Diagenetic Models and Their Implementation: Modeling Transport and Reaction in the Aquatic Sediments: Berlin (Springer Verlag).
Bower, C.E., and Holm-Hansen, T., 1980. A salicylate-hypochlorite method for determining ammonia in seawater. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 37:794–798.
Burdige, D.J., 2005. Burial of terrestrial organic matter in marine sediments: a re-assessment. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 19:GB4011. doi:10.1029/2004GB002368
D'Hondt, S.L., Jørgensen, B.B., Miller, D.J., et al., 2003. Proc. ODP, Init. Repts., 201: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program). doi:10.2973/odp.proc.ir.201.2003
Emmer, E., and Thunell, R.C., 2000. Nitrogen isotope variations in Santa Barbara Basin sediments: implications for denitrification in the eastern tropical North Pacific during the last 50,000 years. Paleoceanography, 15(4):377–387. doi:10.1029/1999PA000417
Freudenthal, T., Wagner, T., Wenzhöfer, F., Zabel, M., and Wefer, G., 2001. Early diagenesis of organic matter from sediments of the eastern subtropical Atlantic: evidence from stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 65(11):1795–1808. doi:10.1016/S0016-7037(01)00554-3
Ganeshram, R.S., Pedersen, T.F., Calvert, S.E., and Murray, J.W., 1995. Large changes in oceanic nutrient inventories from glacial to interglacial periods. Nature (London, U. K.), 376(6543):755–758. doi:10.1038/376755a0
Hartnett, H.E., and Devol, A.H., 2003. Role of a strong oxygen-deficient zone in the preservation and degradation of organic matter: a carbon budget for the continental margins of northwest Mexico and Washington state. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 67(2):247–264. doi:10.1016/S0016-7037(02)01076-1
Hartnett, H.E., Keil, R.G., Hedges, J.I., and Devol, A.H., 1998. Influence of oxygen exposure time on organic carbon preservation in continental margin sediments. Nature (London, U. K.), 391(6667):572–575. doi:10.1038/35351
Holmes, R.M., McClelland, J.W., Sigman, D.M., Fry, B., and Peterson, B.J., 1998. Measuring 15N–NH4+ in marine, estuarine and fresh waters: an adaptation of the ammonia diffusion method for samples with low ammonium concentrations. Mar. Chem., 60(3–4):235–243. doi:10.1016/S0304-4203(97)00099-6
Lehmann, M.F., Bernasconi, S.M., Barbieri, A., and McKenzie, J.A., 2002. Preservation of organic matter and alteration of its carbon and nitrogen isotope composition during simulated and in situ early sedimentary diagenesis. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 66(20):3573–3584. doi:10.1016/S0016-7037(02)00968-7
Li, Y., and Gregory, S., 1974. Diffusion of ions in sea water and in deep-sea sediments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 38:703–714.
Mackin, J.E., and Aller, R.C., 1984. Ammonium adsorption in marine sediments. Limnol. Oceanogr., 29(2):250–257.
Macko, S.A., and Estep, M.L.F., 1984. Microbial alteration of stable nitrogen and carbon isotopic compositions of organic matter. Org. Geochem., 6:787–790. doi:10.1016/0146-6380(84)90100-1
Pride, C., Thunell, R., Sigman, D., Keigwin, L., and Altabet, M.A., 1999. Nitrogen isotopic variations in the Gulf of California since the last deglaciation: response to global climatic change. Paleoceanography, 3:397–409. doi:10.1029/1999PA900004
Prokopenko, M.G., 2004. Fractionation of Nitrogen Isotopes During Early Diagenesis: Los Angeles (Univ. Southern California).
Prokopenko, M.G., Hammond, D.E., Berelson, W.M., Bernhard, J.M., Stott, L., and Douglas, R., 2006a. Nitrogen cycling in the sediments of Santa Barbara Basin and eastern subtropical North Pacific: nitrogen isotopes, diagenesis and possible chemosymbiosis between two lithotrophs (Thioploca and Anammox)—"riding on a glider." Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 242(1–2):186–204. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.11.044
Prokopenko, M.G., Hammond, D.E., Spivack, A., and Stott, L., 2006b. Impact of long-term diagenesis on 15N of organic matter in marine sediments: Sites 1227 and 1230. In Jørgensen, B.B., D'Hondt, S.L., and Miller, D.J. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 201: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 1–30.
doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.201.117.2006
Redfield, A.C., Ketchum, B.H., and Richards, F.A., 1963. The influence of organisms on the composition of seawater. In Hill, M.N. (Ed.), The Sea (Vol. 2): New York (Wiley), 26–77.
Sachs, J., 1997. Nitrogen isotopes in chlorophyll and the origin of the eastern Mediterranean sapropels [Ph.D. dissert.]. Mass. Inst. Tech. and Woods Hole Ocean. Inst.
Sachs, J.P., and Repeta, D.J., 1999. Oligotrophy and nitrogen fixation during eastern Mediterranean sapropel events. Science, 286(5449):2485–2488. doi:10.1126/science.286.5449.2485
Shipboard Scientific Party, 2003a. Site 1234. In Mix, A.C., Tiedemann, R., Blum, P., et al., Proc. ODP, Init. Repts., 202: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 1–64. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.ir.202.105.2003
Shipboard Scientific Party, 2003b. Site 1235. In Mix, A.C., Tiedemann, R., Blum, P., et al., Proc. ODP, Init. Repts., 202: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 1–68. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.ir.202.106.2003
Sigman, D.M., Altabet, M.A., Francois, R., McCorkle, D.C., and Gaillard, J.-F., 1999. The isotopic composition of diatom-bound nitrogen in the Southern Ocean sediments. Paleoceanography, 14(2):118–134. doi:10.1029/1998PA900018
Sigman, D.M., Altabet, M.A., Michener, R., McCorkle, D.C., Fry, B., and Holmes, R.M., 1997. Natural abundance-level measurement of the nitrogen isotopic composition of oceanic nitrate: an adaptation of the ammonia diffusion method. Mar. Chem., 57(3–4):227–242. doi:10.1016/S0304-4203(97)00009-1
Sorensen, P., and Jensen, E.S., 1991. Sequential diffusion of ammonium and nitrate from soil extracts to a polytetrafluoroethylene trap for N-15 determination. Anal. Chim. Acta, 252(1–2):201–203. doi:10.1016/0003-2670(91)87215-S