USC/Caltech Organic Carbon Reading Group Winter 2014

Instructors: Josh West, Woody Fischer, Michael Lamb.

Class Number: Caltech students register for Ge126.

Time: Wednesdays 9:30 to 11:30. Meetings are approximately every other week rotating between Caltech and USC. Add an addition 30 min. transit on either side when class is not at your institution.

Place: Rotating between Caltech and USC. Room to be determined.

Workload: All readings are required. Each paper will have a student lead for the paper discussion. All other students are required to bring three questions or comments about each paper each week.

Tentative Reading List

(1) January 8: Caltech

Organic carbon in the long-term carbon cycle

Galy, V., Beyssac, O., France-Lanord, C., Eglinton, T., 2008. Recycling of Graphite During Himalayan Erosion: A Geological Stabilization of Carbon in the Crust. Science 322, 943�945.

France-Lanord, C., Derry, L.A., 1997. Organic carbon burial forcing of the carbon cycle from Himalayan erosion. Nature 390, 65�67.

Berner, R.A., 2003. The long-term carbon cycle, fossil fuels and atmospheric composition. Nature 426, 323�326.

Berner, R.A., 1982. Burial of organic carbon and pyrite sulfur in the modern ocean; its geochemical and environmental significance. American Journal of Science 282, 451�473.

(2) January 22: USC

The Eel River/Oregon coast story: Source to sink

Blair, N.E., Leithold, E.L., and Aller, R.C., 2004, From bedrock to burial: the evolution of particulate organic carbon across coupled watershed-continental margin systems: New Approaches in Marine Organic Biogeochemistry: A Tribute to the Life and Science of John I. Hedges, v. 92, no. 1�4, p. 141�156, doi: 10.1016/j.marchem.2004.06.023.

Blair, N.E., Leithold, E.L., Ford, S.T., Peeler, K.A., Holmes, J.C., and Perkey, D.W., 2003, The persistence of memory: the fate of ancient sedimentary organic carbon in a modern sedimentary system: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 67, no. 1, p. 63�73, doi: 10.1016/S0016-7037(02)01043-8.

(3) February 5: Caltech

Magnitude-frequency problems

Wheatcroft, RA, MA Go�i, JA Hatten, GB Pasternack & JA Warrick. 2010. The role of effective discharge in the ocean delivery of particulate organic carbon by small, mountainous river systems. Limnology and Oceanography 55: 161-171.

West, A.J., Lin, C.-W.s, Lin, T.-C., Hilton, R.G., Liu, S.-R., Chang, C.-T., Lin, K.-C., Galy, A., Sparkes, R.B., Hovius, N., 2011. Mobilization and transport of coarse woody debris to the oceans triggered by an extreme tropical storm. Limnology and Oceanography 56, 77�85.

Dhillon, G.S., Inamdar, S., 2013. Extreme storms and changes in particulate and dissolved organic carbon in runoff: Entering uncharted waters? Geophys. Res. Lett. 40, 1322�1327.]

Turowski et al., The mass distribution of coarse particulate organic matter exported from an Alpine headwater stream, Earth Surf. Dynam., 1, 1-11, 2013, www.earth-surf-dynam.net/1/1/2013/doi:10.5194/esurf-1-1-2013

(4) February 12: Caltech

Preservation

�(1) Blair and Aller, Ann Rev � this was on the original list next meeting
http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-marine-120709-142717

(2) Kao et al, Esurf - this was on the original list for the meeting after the next
http://www.earth-surf-dynam-discuss.net/1/177/2013/esurfd-1-177-2013.html

 (3) Rob Sparkes� PhD

(4) Bianchi, 2011 PNAS 

(5) March 5: Caltech

Carbon dating carbon

(1) Griffith et al., 2010 GCA v74 p6788 � this is the compilation and modeling of bulk organic radiocarbon from marine sediments

(2) Galy and Eglington, 2011 Nat Geosc v5, p843 � this will introduce us to how compound specific radiocarbon might shed light on the problem of transport/preservation, by looking isolating the effect of radiocarbon-dead fossil contributions

(3) Hoffman et al, 2014 ESurf v1, p45

�(6) March 12: Caltech

To be determined

Other papers of interest.

Hilton, R., Galy, A., and Hovius, N., 2008, Riverine particulate organic carbon from an active mountain belt: Importance of landslides: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, v. 22, no. 1, p. GB1017.

Hilton, R.G., Galy, A., Hovius, N., Horng, M.-J., and Chen, H., 2010, The isotopic composition of particulate organic carbon in mountain rivers of Taiwan: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 74, no. 11, p. 3164�3181, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2010.03.004. Galy, V., Eglinton, T., submitted. Protracted storage of organic carbon in the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Galy, V., France-Lanord, C., Lartiges, B., 2008. Loading and fate of particulate organic carbon from the Himalaya to the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72, 1767�1787. Hilton, R., Galy, A., Hovius, N., Chen, M.-C., Horng, M.-J., Chen, H., 2008. Tropical-cyclone-driven erosion of the terrestrial biosphere from mountains 1, 759�762.

Galy, V., Eglinton, T., France-Lanord, C., and Sylva, S., 2011, The provenance of vegetation and environmental signatures encoded in vascular plant biomarkers carried by the Ganges�Brahmaputra rivers: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 304, no. 1�2, p. 1�12, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.02.003.

Hilton, R., Galy, A., Hovius, N., 2008. Riverine particulate organic carbon from an active mountain belt: Importance of landslides. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 22, GB1017.

Clark, K.E., Hilton, R.G., West, A.J., Malhi, Y., Gr�cke, D.R., Bryant, C.L., Ascough, P.L., Robles Caceres, A., New, M., 2013. New views on �old� carbon in the Amazon River: Insight from the source of organic carbon eroded from the Peruvian Andes. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 14, 1644�1659.

Burdige, D.J., 2005. Burial of terrestrial organic matter in marine sediments: A re-assessment. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 19, GB4011.

Galy, V., France-Lanord, C., Beyssac, O., Faure, P., Kudrass, H., Palhol, F., 2007. Efficient organic carbon burial in the Bengal fan sustained by the Himalayan erosional system. Nature 450, 407�410.

Liu, J.T., Kao, S.-J., Huh, C.-A., Hung, C.-C., 2013. Gravity Flows Associated with Flood Events and Carbon Burial: Taiwan as Instructional Source Area. Annu. Rev. Marine. Sci. 5, 47�68.