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Sources And Cycling Of Carbonyl Sulfide In The Sargasso Sea, Gregory A. Cutter, Lynda S. Cutter, Katherine C. Filippino Jan 2004

Sources And Cycling Of Carbonyl Sulfide In The Sargasso Sea, Gregory A. Cutter, Lynda S. Cutter, Katherine C. Filippino

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The cycling of the radiatively important gas carbonyl sulfide (OCS) was studied in surface waters of the Sargasso Sea. In August 1999, surface OCS concentrations averaged 8.6 pmol L-1, showed minor diel variations, and varied little with depth. An OCS precursor, total dissolved organic sulfur (DOS), was lowest at the surface (40 nmol L-1) and increased with depth. The photoproduction rate of OCS from in situ incubations averaged 9.6 pmol L-1 h-1, whereas dark production was 7.0 pmol L-1 h-1. Apparent quantum yields were 10-5-10-7 from 313-436 …


Potential Contaminants At A Dredged Spoil Placement Site, Charles City County, Virginia, As Revealed By Sequential Extraction, Jianwu Tang, G. Richard Whittecar, Karen H. Johannesson, W. Lee Daniels Jan 2004

Potential Contaminants At A Dredged Spoil Placement Site, Charles City County, Virginia, As Revealed By Sequential Extraction, Jianwu Tang, G. Richard Whittecar, Karen H. Johannesson, W. Lee Daniels

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Backfills of dredged sediments onto a former sand and gravel mine site in Charles City County, VA may have the potential to contaminate local groundwater. To evaluate the mobility of trace elements and to identify the potential contaminants from the dredged sediments, a sequential extraction scheme was used to partition trace elements associated with the sediments from the local aquifer and the dredged sediments into five fractions: exchangeable, acidic, reducible, oxidizable, and residual phases. Sequential extractions indicate that, for most of the trace elements examined, the residual phases account for the largest proportion of the total concentrations, and their total …