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petrogenic organic carbon

Scope: biogeochemistry
Papers: 17 | Mentions: 23

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Definition

Organic carbon derived from sedimentary rocks that is often poorly quantified and influences soil organic carbon composition, age, and stability

Related Terms (5)

ancient OCpetrogenic OCOCpetroPOCrock organic carbon

Publications (22)

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Model-based interpretation of solute exports and carbon partitioning during shale weathering in a mountainous hillslope

2026Water Resources Researchmeasured variable
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Quantifying the effect of petrogenic carbon on SOC turnover for two Rocky Mountain soils: when are petrogenic carbon corrections required?

2025Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciencescentral
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Contrasting depth dependencies of plant root presence and mass across biomes underscore prolific root-regolith interactions

2025AGU Advancescontext
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Hydrological control of rock carbon fluxes from shale weathering

2024Nature Watermeasured variable
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Mineral and metabolic constraints on carbon cycling within and export from mountainous floodplain soils

2023measured variable
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Single-Well Push–Pull Tracer Test Analyses to Determine Aquifer Reactive Transport Parameters at a Former Uranium Mill Site (Grand Junction, Colorado)

2023Mineralscontext
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The Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) Campaign

2023Bulletin of the American Meteorological Societymeasured variable
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Molecular nature of mineral-organic associations within redox-active mountainous floodplain sediments

2023ACS Earth and Space Chemistrymeasured variable
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Molecular nature of mineral-organic associations within redox-active mountainous floodplain sediments

2023ACS Earth and Space Chemistrymeasured
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Improving predictions of stream CO2 concentrations and fluxes using a stream network model: A case study in the East River watershed, CO, USA

2021Global Biogeochemical Cyclescontext
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Concentration-Discharge Relationships of Dissolved Rhenium in Alpine Catchments Reveal Its Use as a Tracer of Oxidative Weathering

2021Water Resources Researchprimary focus
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Concentration-Discharge Relationships of Dissolved Rhenium in Alpine Catchments Reveal Its Use as a Tracer of Oxidative Weathering

2021Water Resources Researchcentral
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From tree to tap: The impacts of climate change on biogeochemical processes during conifer needle distribution and broader implications for water quality in Colorado

2021measured variable
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Shale as a Source of Organic Carbon in Floodplain Sediments of a Mountainous Watershed

2020JGR Biogeosciencescentral
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Shale as a Source of Organic Carbon in Floodplain Sediments of a Mountainous Watershed

2020JGR Biogeosciencesmeasured variable
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Shale as a Source of Organic Carbon in Floodplain Sediments of a Mountainous Watershed

2020JGR Biogeosciencesprimary focus
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Modeling transient soil moisture limitations on microbial carbon respiration

2019Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciencesmeasured variable
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Modeling transient soil moisture limitations on microbial carbon respiration

2019Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciencescontext
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Microbial communities across a hillslope-riparian transect shaped by proximity to the stream, groundwater table, and weathered bedrock

2019Ecology and Evolutionmeasured variable
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A molecular investigation of soil organic carbon composition across a subalpine catchment

2018Soil Systemsmeasured variable
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Geochemical exports to river from the intra-meander hyporheic zone under transient hydrologic conditions: East River Mountainous Watershed, Colorado

2018Water Resources Researchmeasured variable
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Ecological Feedbacks to Global Warming: Extending Results from Plot to Landscape Scale

1998measured variable