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Suspended and sinking particulate matter from the water column and sediment and fecal pellets from Unit I sediments were collected in the central basin of the Black Sea for organic geochemical investigations. The hydrocarbon compositions of these samples proved informative for providing information on the sources for the particulate and sedimentary organic matter. Hydrocarbons derived from planktonic, terrestrial, bacterial, and fossil sources can be distinguished. Plankton-derived hydrocarbons dominated the <53 µm particles in the oxic surface waters (94% of total hydrocarbons were planktonic, largely from Emiliania huxleyi), but an equal mix of planktonic and fossil hydrocarbons was present in the >53 µm particles. By contrast, <53 µm particles in the anoxic zone were dominated by hydrocarbons of bacterial origin (76% of total hydrocarbons at 2000 m were bacterial). Large (>53 µm) particles in the anoxic zone contained equal amounts of hydrocarbons from all four sources. Fecal pellets and sediments contained the greatest contribution of hydrocarbons of terrestrial origin (up to 56% of total hydrocarbons).
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Wakeham, S.G., Beier, J.A., Clifford, C.H. (1991). Organic Matter Sources in the Black Sea as Inferred from Hydrocarbon Distributions. In: İzdar, E., Murray, J.W. (eds) Black Sea Oceanography. NATO ASI Series, vol 351. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2608-3_20
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