Calcium isotope ratios of pore fluids and solid phase of organic rich sediments ...
Pore fluid calcium isotope, calcium concentration and strontium concentration data are used to measure the rates of diagenetic dissolution and precipitation of calcite in deep-sea sediments containing abundant clay and organic material. This type of study of deep-sea sediment diagenesis provides uni...
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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PANGAEA
2011
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Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.782774 https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.782774 |
Summary: | Pore fluid calcium isotope, calcium concentration and strontium concentration data are used to measure the rates of diagenetic dissolution and precipitation of calcite in deep-sea sediments containing abundant clay and organic material. This type of study of deep-sea sediment diagenesis provides unique information about the ultra-slow chemical reactions that occur in natural marine sediments that affect global geochemical cycles and the preservation of paleo-environmental information in carbonate fossils. For this study, calcium isotope ratios (d44/40Ca) of pore fluid calcium from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Sites 984 (North Atlantic) and 1082 (off the coast of West Africa) were measured to augment available pore fluid measurements of calcium and strontium concentration. Both study sites have high sedimentation rates and support quantitative sulfate reduction, methanogenesis and anaerobic methane oxidation. The pattern of change of d44/40Ca of pore fluid calcium versus depth at Sites 984 and 1082 differs ... : Supplement to: Turchyn, Alexandra V; DePaolo, Donald J (2011): Calcium isotope evidence for suppression of carbonate dissolution in carbonate-bearing organic-rich sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75(22), 7081-7098 ... |
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