Origin, sedimentation and diagenesis of organic matter in coastal sediments of the southern Beaufort Sea region, Canadian Arctic
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Abstract
The source and fate of organic carbon in coastal sediments of the Beaufort Sea, Canadian Arctic, are examined. Despite the Mackenzie River's discharge to the coastal waters, sediments of the adjacent slope and Amundsen Gulf have a similar organic carbon content and CORG:N ratio to sediments of the continental margin. In contrast, the stable isotope composition of the organic carbon and nitrogen reveal striking differences: low δ13C and δ15N values are found in Beaufort Shelf sediments indicative of a terrigenous origin, whereas higher values, closer to the marine signature, are observed in the Amundsen Gulf sediments. On the Slope, the isotopic signatures are intermediate and may be interpreted as a mixture of terrigenous and marine organic matter. These results indicate that the terrigenous suspended matter carried by the Mackenzie River's plume and discharged to the Beaufort Sea does not spread to the Amundsen Gulf. Organic carbon that settles onto the seafloor fuels most early diagenetic reactions. The nature and amount that reaches the sediment determines the vertical zonation of redox reactions within the sediment. In turn, the vertical distribution of available oxidants can be used to infer the flux of organic carbon to the seafloor. The Mn and Fe oxide content of Gulf and Slope sediments are one order of magnitude larger than in Shelf sediments, indicating that the Mn and Fe cycles are maintained well below the sediment-water interface by low accumulation rates of organic carbon. Conversely, in margin sediments, high organic carbon accumulation rates bring the Mn and Fe cycles closer to the interface and allow their escape to the overlying waters. In strongly seasonal environments, organic carbon is typically delivered to the sediment in pulses. To simulate the influence of episodic organic carbon fluxes on the sediment chemistry, closed-jar incubation experiments were conducted using both Mn and Fe oxide-poor (Mackenzie Shelf) and -rich sediments (Amund
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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