Preservation of organic matter in marine sediments: controls, mechanisms, and an imbalance in sediment organic carbon budgets?

By D. Burdige. Chemical Reviews, 2007

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Reviews and syntheses: to the bottom of carbon processing at the seafloor (2017, background): “…accumulation rates are high in vegetated, coastal, deltaic, shelf and ocean-margin settings, the majority of organic matter burial occurs there, with organic carbon burial in deep-sea sediments accounting for < 5 % of the total buried matter (Berner, 1982; Duarte et al., 2005; Burdige, 2007).”
The impacts of land plant evolution on Earth's climate and oxygenation state – An interdisciplinary review (2020, background): “Today, terrestrial organic carbon accounts for ~1/3 of organic matter in marine sediments (Burdige, 2007).”
Feast and famine — microbial life in the deep-sea bed (2007, background): “Humic substances might be resistant to hydrolytic enzymes, and their use as an energy and nutrient source seems to depend on a range of physico–chemical and biological factors, such as the adsorption of organic matter to minerals or pre-digestion by animal”
Estuarine and coastal ocean carbon paradox: CO2 sinks or sites of terrestrial carbon incineration? (2011, background): “More recently, Burdige (2007) estimated an additional OC burial of 70 Tg C y−1 in the 200- to 1,000-m depth range.”