Biogeochemical cycling and authigenic mineral formation in suboxic tropical mobile mud belts

Project Description: Most sediment entering the oceans is derived from tropical drainage basins and is deposited in deltaic systems along continental margins.  This project compares early diagenetic processes, biogeochemical cycling, and authigenic mineral formation in mobile deltaic deposits of the Amazon - Guianas coastal mudbelt and the Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea, two of the major depocenters on Earth.

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