Assessment of the Sources and Quality of Organic Carbon     Preserved in Sediments from the Southern Washington         Continental Shelf and Slope
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In this proposal, Prahl advances the hypothesis that the                organic carbon accumulating in the slope region is highly                       degraded and derives from the erosion of soils.  Further organic                geochemical study of sediments collected along an offshore                      transect extending from the midshelf and down the slope to the                  opening of Cascadia Basin are proposed to test this hypothesis.                 Results from these analyses will provide answers to two                         fundamental questions:  1) Do sediments from the slope region, in               general, contain a 20-30% terrestrial component of total organic                carbon or does the terrestrial component continuously decrease                  with further distance down the slope?  2) Is there geochemical                  evidence preserved in sediment cores from this coastal region                   that the composition of bulk organic carbon discharged by the                   Columbia River has changed qualitatively over the past 50-100                   years.
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{'Code': '1670', 'Text': 'Chemical Oceanography'}
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