Variation in Solvent-Extractable Lipids and n-Alkane Compound-Specific Carbon Isotopic Compositions with Depth in a Southern China Karst Area Soil

作     者：崔景伟 黄俊华 Philip A Meyers 黄咸雨 李婧婧 刘文贵 

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and ProspectingChina University of Petroleum(Beijing) State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral ResourcesChina University of Geosciences(wuhan) Department of Geological SciencesThe University of Michigan Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology of Ministry of Education China University of Geosciences(wuhan) 

出 版 物：《Journal of Earth Science》 (地球科学学刊（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2010年第21卷第4期

页      面：382-391页

核心收录：

学科分类：070902[理学-地球化学] 0709[理学-地质学] 07[理学] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 0705[理学-地理学] 070501[理学-自然地理学] 0704[理学-天文学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 40572098, 40525008, 40621002,40531004) the 111 Project (No. B08030) 

主　　题：lipid biomarker modern soil karst area compound-specific carbon isotopic value n -alkan-2-one. 

摘      要：Because literatures about the lipid compositions of modern soils in karst areas are scarce, we have studied the soil horizons overlying the Heshang （和尚） Cave that has provided paleoclimate records from speleothem lipid contents. Our analysis reveals a series of n-alkanes, free fatty acids, n-alkanols and n-alkan-2-ones distribution and relative abundance changing with the depth, and in which the ratios of the lower molecular weight to higher molecular weight n-alkanes, free fatty acids, n-alkanols and n-alkan-2-ones have a peak at a subsurface depth of 5 to 10 cm. An accompanying peakin 17β（H）, 21β（H）-hop-22（29）-ene （diploptene） and a shift to less negative n-alkane carbon isotopic values also identify this layer in the karst soil. This pattern indicates the existence of a subsurface soil layer in which the microorgan- isms that produce these compounds are espe- cially abundant. The carbon isotopic values of individual plant wax n-alkanes are about 3%0 greater at the base of the 30- to 40-cm soil profile than in the surface layer, probably as a result ofselective microbial degradation of n-alkanes from different primary sources. The lipids and carbon iso- topic values of individual plant wax n-alkanes study of the overlying soil show a strong microbial activity in this karst soil and help in interpreting the lipid compositions and specific carbon isotopic value of n-alkanes of the stalagmites of the Heshang Cave for paleoenvironmental reconstructions.