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On The Use of Stable Nitrogen Isotopes in Present and Past Anoxic Environments

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Knowledge about the biogeochemistry of nitrogen cycling in modern aquatic ecosystems and the associated fractionations of nitrogen isotopes (δ15N) has increased significantly during the past two decades. These insights also improved our ability to interpret δ15N records recovered from ancient sediments. Specific environmental setups such as coastal upwelling areas, open pelagic realms, or stagnant basins are characterized by distinct biogenic processes and the formation of a typifying sedimentary record. We find growing evidence to recover these distinct biogenic processes in detail from δ15N patterns observed in earth history. Sediments with elevated nitrogen contents (>0.2%) and low diagenetic offprint are most suitable for such investigations. The analysis of δ15N in extracted biomarkers such as chlorines and porphyrines, or from nitrogen bearing hard parts of certain fossils offer valuable tools to assess the sample quality and a possible imprint derived from diagenesis.

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This book chapter greatly improved by the comments of one anonymous reviewer. This manuscript partly includes research, which was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) during Forschergruppe 736 (STR 356/4-1) and the Eu in the frame of HYPOX. I thank Alex Altenbach for the kind invitation to contribute to this book.

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Struck, U. (2012). On The Use of Stable Nitrogen Isotopes in Present and Past Anoxic Environments. In: Altenbach, A., Bernhard, J., Seckbach, J. (eds) Anoxia. Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1896-8_26

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