Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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Environment

Sediment Core Sectioning and Extraction of Pore Waters under Anoxic Conditions

Alison R. Keimowitz¹, Yan Zheng², Ming-Kuo Lee³, Michael Natter³, Jeffrey Keevan³

¹Department of Chemistry, Vassar College, ²Division of Geochemistry, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, ³Department of Geosciences, Auburn University

A protocol for sectioning sediment cores and extracting pore waters under anoxic conditions in order to permit analysis of redox sensitive species in both solids and fluids is presented.