Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7816990 | Organic Geochemistry | 2018 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
We tested the usefulness of the 5α(H)-stanol/Î5-sterol ratios obtained by the tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) thermochemolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) method used to reconstruct redox events in marine sediments as a redox tracer in lake sediments using cores from Lake Suigetsu, Japan. The lake was previously a freshwater lake and is now brackish owing to excavation works conducted during the 17th century. Other redox tracer analyses (e.g., based on farnesol) have shown that C26(nor-24)Î22/C26(nor-24)Î5,22 (24-nordehydrocholestanol/24-nordehydrocholesterol), C28(24Me)Î22/C28(24Me)Î5,22 (diatomstanol/diatomsterol), and C27Î22/C27Î5,22 (22-dehydrocholestanol/22-dehydrocholesterol) ratios have risen (â¼0.53) following strong anoxic conditions that formed in Lake Suigetsu (A.D. 1848 and 1935). This study is the first to show that 5α(H)-stanol/Î5-sterol ratios determined using the TMAH method could be useful as a redox tracer in lacustrine environments. In particular, the ratio of diatomsterol, which is detected in both brackish and fresh water in relatively high abundance, has the potential to be a very useful tracer of redox events. On the other hand, the other 5α(H)-stanol/Î5-sterol ratios (C27Î0/C27Î5 [cholestanol/cholesterol], C28(24Me)Î0/C28(24Me)Î5 [campestanol/campesterol], and C29(24Et)Î0/C29(24Et)Î5 [sitostanol/sitosterol] ratios) showed no increasing trends, suggesting the influence of terrestrial inputs from degraded products.
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Authors
Masatoshi Nakakuni, Junichi Kitano, Hitoshi Uemura, Shuichi Yamamoto,