Sediment chemistry and magnetic properties in an anomalously reducing core from the eastern Mediterranean Sea

.In Core KC19C 19.6 m long, recovered in the abyssal plain between Crete and Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean, a .large number of organic-rich layers sapropels occur, which correlate to maxima in the insolation curve. In contrast to other .sites in the eastern Mediterranean, porewaters contain sulfide below a few meters below seafloor mbsf. Geochemical .analyses were performed on the porewaters ammonium, alkalinity, sulfate, manganese, iron, bisulfide, chloride, Eh, pH and .sediments organic carbon, barium, total sulfur, total iron, manganese, pyrite, dithionite-extractable iron. In addition,