You are currently viewing the editor's summary.
View Full TextLog in to view the full text
AAAS login provides access to Science for AAAS members, and access to other journals in the Science family to users who have purchased individual subscriptions.
More options
Download and print this article for your personal scholarly, research, and educational use.
Buy a single issue of Science for just $15 USD.
Bound to rock
Organic matter binds to phyllosilicates, a process which affects both its transport and chemical stability. How does that affect the fate of terrestrial organic carbon that enters the ocean? Blattmann et al. show that organic carbon derived from soils is stripped from mineral surfaces upon discharge and dispersal into the ocean, whereas organic matter derived from ancient rocks is preserved there. Their results show that preservation of continentally derived organic matter in marine sediments is controlled largely by phyllosilicate mineralogy.
Science, this issue p. 742
This is an article distributed under the terms of the Science Journals Default License.
