Philip A. Meyers

TL;DR: A Pliocene-Pleistocene turbidite sequence sampled at four drill sites in a 75-km-long transect on the landward edge of the Iberia Abyssal Plain illustrates the effects of non-steady-state sedimentation on postdepositional geochemical processes as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, a 13-month litterbag decomposition study using Sphagnum palustre collected from the Dajiuhu peatland, central China, was conducted under controlled laboratory conditions to assess the influences of redox (aerobic vs anaerobic) conditions and environmental temperatures on the chain-length distributions and carbon isotopic compositions of sphagnum n-alkanes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the hydrogen isotope (δD) value of C28 n-alkanoic acid in lacustrine sediments of Pleistocene age to reconstruct δD values of precipitation in northern New Mexico over two glacial-interglacial cycles (∼550,000-360,000 years before present) and obtain a record of monsoon strength.

TL;DR: Wefer et al. as discussed by the authors measured the sediment fraction, carbonate, and organic carbon contents of late Miocene sediments from Site 1085, Middle Cape Basin, South Africa.

TL;DR: In this paper, five sites located on a bathymetric transect of the distal Demerara Rise were studied by ODP Leg 207, where they were overlain by Cenomanian to Santonian finely laminated black shales, rich in organic matter of marine origin.