PROMISE
Probing Organic Matter Mineral Interactions in Soil and Sedimentary Environments
Researchers
- Prof. Dr. Timothy Eglinton
- Dr. Michael Plötze
- Thomas Blattmann
Duration
2014-2018
Collaborators
- Prof. Zhifei Liu State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai
- Prof. Fernando Siringan Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines
Support
- ETH-14 41-1
- Tongji University Laboratory Open Fund
The objectives of this project are to assess the control of different minerals, in particular phyllosilicates, on the stabilization and preservation of natural organic matter in soils and sediments. We are investigating samples from the northeastern South China Sea and its catchment where a strong natural gradient in phyllosilicate mineralogy is present.
Publication
The exciting results of this study are published in Science (08 Nov 2019, 366(6466), p. 742-745):
T. M. Blattmann et al., Mineralogical control on the fate of continentally derived organic matter in the ocean. Science 366, 742-745 (2019). DOI: external page 10.1126/science.aax5345