Accession Number:

ADA331371

Title:

Quantitative Chemical Mass Transfer in Coastal Sediments during Early Diagenesis; Effects of Biological Transport, Mineralogy, and Fabric

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. 1 Jun-30 Sep 97

Corporate Author:

GEORGIA INST OF TECH ATLANTA SCHOOL OFEARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

Personal Author(s):

• Cappellen, Philippe V.

Report Date:

1997-10-22

Pagination or Media Count:

8.0

Abstract:

This report summarizes activities related to ONR grant N00014-97-1-0879 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, for the period 1 June 1997 through September 30 1997 Phase I. The work during Phase I has focused on 1 a sensitivity analysis of the effects of irrigation on the biogeochemistry of coastal marine sediments, 2 the upgrading of the existing multicomponent reactive transport model for early diagenesis, and 3 the preliminary development of a stochastic algorithm to represent burrowing activities of benthic macrofauna.

Descriptors:

• *IRRIGATION SYSTEMS
• COASTAL REGIONS
• STOCHASTIC PROCESSES
• SEDIMENT TRANSPORT
• MASS TRANSFER
• GEOCHEMISTRY
• MICROBIOLOGY
• BENTHONIC ZONES
• MINERALOGY

Subject Categories:

• Biological Oceanography
• Geology, Geochemistry and Mineralogy

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE