Bromine accumulation in acidic black colluvial soils

Autor: Teresa María Taboada Rodríguez, Cruz Ferro Vázquez, Harald Biester, Luis Rodríguez Lado, Manuela Costa Casais, Antonio Martínez Cortizas, Joeri Kaal
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Zdroj: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 174:143-155
ISSN: 0016-7037
Popis: Recent investigations showed that bromine is incorporated to soil organic matter (SOM), its content increasing with humification. But few research was done on its long-term accumulation and the role played by pedogenetic processes, as those involved in organic matter stabilization. We investigated bromine content and distribution in four deep, acidic, organic-rich, Holocene soils from an oceanic area of Western Europe. Bromine concentrations (93–778 μg g −1 ) in the silt + clay ( −1 ) in the fine earth ( −2 , indicating a rather large variability in a small area, and total estimated retention was low (6–16%). The degree of SOM bromination, expressed as the Br/C molar ratio, varied between 0.03 and 1.20 mmol Br/mol C. The ratio was highly correlated ( n = 23, r 2 0.88, p
Databáze: OpenAIRE