Nitrogen diagenesis

Nelson, B. K., DeNiro, M. J., Schoeninger, M. J., De Paolo, D. J., and Hare, P. E. (1986). Effects of diagenesis on strontium, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen concentrations and isotopic composition of bone. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 50 1941-1949. 

Williams LB, Ferrell RE, Hutcheon I, Bakel AJ, Walsh MM, Krouse HR (1995) Nitrogen isotope geochemistry of organic matter and minerals during diagenesis and hydrocaibon migration. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 59 765-779... 

Berner, R.A. (1974) Kinetic models for early diagenesis of nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, and silicon in anoxic marine sediments. In The Sea (Goldberg, E.D., ed.), pp. 427 -50, John Wiley, New York. 

Haugen, J.E., and Lichtentaler, R. (1991) Amino acid diagenesis, organic carbon and nitrogen mineralization in surface sediments from the inner Oslofjord, Norway. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 55, 1649-1661. 

In recent years various workers f1-7J have successfully developed models based on the mathematics of diffusion (8) to describe vertical profiles of selected chemical parameters in marine sediments dominated by sulfate reduction. Several papers 9, 10) have also proposed models for nitrogen diagenesis in the upper aerobic zone of such sediments. Most of these models, however, deal with only one or two relatively well behaved parameters, such as SO5" or CO2, which do not interact strongly with other components of the sediment besides organic matter. A truly comprehensive model for such sediment should deal simultaneously with all of the major chemical parameters of the system and ideally should be formulated as an initial value prob-... 

Vanderborght, J., Wollast, R., and Billen, G. Kinetic models of diagenesis in disturbed sediments. Part 2. Nitrogen diagenesis. Limnol. Oceanogr. 22, 794-803 (1973). 

Corredor, J. E., and Capone, D. G. (1985). Studies on nitrogen diagenesis in coral reef sands. Proc. (5 ) Int. Coral Reef Symp. 3, 395—399. 

Engvall, A.-G. (1978). The fate of nitrogen in early diagenesis of Baltic sediments. Ph.D. thesis, Contr. in Microbial Geochemistry, Department of Geology, University of Stockholm. 

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