PROMISE
Probing Organic Matter Mineral Interactions in Soil and Sedimentary Environments
Researchers
Prof. Timothy Eglinton
Dr. Michael Plötze
Thomas Blattmann
Duration
2014-2018
Collaborators
Prof. Zhifei Liu State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai
Prof. Fernando Siringan Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines
Support
ETH-14 41-1
Tongji University Laboratory Open Fund
The objectives of this project are to assess the control of different minerals, in particular phyllosilicates, on the stabilization and preservation of natural organic matter in soils and sediments. We are investigating samples from the northeastern South China Sea and its catchment where a strong natural gradient in phyllosilicate mineralogy is present.
The exciting results of this study are published in Science (08 Nov 2019, 366(6466), p. 742-745):