Ratios of Organic Carbon, Nitrogen, and Hydrogen in Recent

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KOYAMA

Water Research Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Nagoya Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan

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The ratios of organic carbon, nitrogen, and hydro­ gen were determined in a core sample of recent sediments. The vertical distribution of the ratios in the core sample suggests that a relationship between microbiological decomposition rates of organic carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen in sedi­ ments may be of the following order: Org. C