supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41276046 and 41773078)
Marine gas hydrates, one of the largest methane reservoirs on Earth, may greatly affect the deep sea sedimentary environment and biogeochemistry; however, the carbon geochemistry in gas hydrate-bearing sediments is po...
supported by the National Major Fundamental Research and Development Project of China (No. 2009CB219501);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40976035 and No. 41276046)
The distributions of lipids in surface and subsurface sediments from the northern South China Sea were determined. The n-alkanes were in bimodal distribution that is characterized by a centre at n-C16 –n-C20 with max...