Identifying weathering sources and processes in an outlet glacier of the Greenland Ice Sheet using Ca and Sr isotope ratios
Chemical and isotope data (epsilon Ca-40, delta Ca-44/42, Sr-87/Sr-86, delta O-18) of river water samples were collected twice daily for 28 days in 2009 from the outlet river of Leverett Glacier, West Greenland. The water chemistry data was combined with detailed geochemical analysis and petrography...
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ftinsu:oai:HAL:hal-02350704v1 2023-06-18T03:40:43+02:00 Identifying weathering sources and processes in an outlet glacier of the Greenland Ice Sheet using Ca and Sr isotope ratios Hindshaw, Ruth S. Rickli, Joerg Leuthold, Julien Wadham, Jemma Bourdon, Bernard Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE) École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL) Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2014 https://univ-lyon1.hal.science/hal-02350704 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.09.016 en eng HAL CCSD Elsevier info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.gca.2014.09.016 hal-02350704 https://univ-lyon1.hal.science/hal-02350704 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2014.09.016 ISSN: 0016-7037 EISSN: 0016-7037 Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta https://univ-lyon1.hal.science/hal-02350704 Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014, 145, pp.50--71. ⟨10.1016/j.gca.2014.09.016⟩ [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2014 ftinsu https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.09.016 2023-06-05T23:30:28Z Chemical and isotope data (epsilon Ca-40, delta Ca-44/42, Sr-87/Sr-86, delta O-18) of river water samples were collected twice daily for 28 days in 2009 from the outlet river of Leverett Glacier, West Greenland. The water chemistry data was combined with detailed geochemical analysis and petrography of bulk rock, mineral separates and sediment samples in order to constrain the mineral weathering sources to the river. The average isotopic compositions measured in the river, with 2SD of all the values measured, were epsilon Ca-40 = +4.0 +/- 1.4, delta Ca-44/42 = +0.60 +/- 0.10 parts per thousand and Sr-87/Sr-86 = 0.74243 +/- 0.00327. Based on changes in bulk meltwater discharge, the hydrochemical data was divided into three hydrological periods. The first period was marked by the tail-end of an outburst event and was characterised by water with decreasing suspended sediment concentrations (SSC), ion concentrations and pH. During the second hydrological period, discharge increased whilst Sr-87/Sr-86 decreased from 0.74550 to 0.74164. Based on binary mixing diagrams using Sr-87/Sr-86 with Na/Sr, Ca/Sr and epsilon Ca-40, this is interpreted to reflect an increase in reactive mineral weathering, in particular epidote, as the water residence time decreases. The decrease in water residence time is a result of the evolution from a distributed (long water residence time) to a channelised (short water residence time) subglacial drainage network. The third hydrological period was defined as the period when overall discharge was decreasing. This hydrological period was marked by prominent diurnal cycles in discharge. During this period, significant correlations between delta Ca-44/42 and SSC and delta O-18 were observed which are suggestive of fractionation during adsorption. This study demonstrates the potential of radiogenic Ca to both identify temporally changing mineral sources in conjunction with Sr-87/Sr-86 values and to separate source and fractionation effects in delta Ca-44/42 values. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All ... Article in Journal/Newspaper glacier Greenland Ice Sheet Leverett Glacier Institut national des sciences de l'Univers: HAL-INSU Greenland Leverett Glacier ENVELOPE(-147.583,-147.583,-85.633,-85.633) Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 145 50 71 |
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Chemical and isotope data (epsilon Ca-40, delta Ca-44/42, Sr-87/Sr-86, delta O-18) of river water samples were collected twice daily for 28 days in 2009 from the outlet river of Leverett Glacier, West Greenland. The water chemistry data was combined with detailed geochemical analysis and petrography of bulk rock, mineral separates and sediment samples in order to constrain the mineral weathering sources to the river. The average isotopic compositions measured in the river, with 2SD of all the values measured, were epsilon Ca-40 = +4.0 +/- 1.4, delta Ca-44/42 = +0.60 +/- 0.10 parts per thousand and Sr-87/Sr-86 = 0.74243 +/- 0.00327. Based on changes in bulk meltwater discharge, the hydrochemical data was divided into three hydrological periods. The first period was marked by the tail-end of an outburst event and was characterised by water with decreasing suspended sediment concentrations (SSC), ion concentrations and pH. During the second hydrological period, discharge increased whilst Sr-87/Sr-86 decreased from 0.74550 to 0.74164. Based on binary mixing diagrams using Sr-87/Sr-86 with Na/Sr, Ca/Sr and epsilon Ca-40, this is interpreted to reflect an increase in reactive mineral weathering, in particular epidote, as the water residence time decreases. The decrease in water residence time is a result of the evolution from a distributed (long water residence time) to a channelised (short water residence time) subglacial drainage network. The third hydrological period was defined as the period when overall discharge was decreasing. This hydrological period was marked by prominent diurnal cycles in discharge. During this period, significant correlations between delta Ca-44/42 and SSC and delta O-18 were observed which are suggestive of fractionation during adsorption. This study demonstrates the potential of radiogenic Ca to both identify temporally changing mineral sources in conjunction with Sr-87/Sr-86 values and to separate source and fractionation effects in delta Ca-44/42 values. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All ... |
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Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE) École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL) Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
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Identifying weathering sources and processes in an outlet glacier of the Greenland Ice Sheet using Ca and Sr isotope ratios |
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Identifying weathering sources and processes in an outlet glacier of the Greenland Ice Sheet using Ca and Sr isotope ratios |
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Identifying weathering sources and processes in an outlet glacier of the Greenland Ice Sheet using Ca and Sr isotope ratios |
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Identifying weathering sources and processes in an outlet glacier of the Greenland Ice Sheet using Ca and Sr isotope ratios |
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Identifying weathering sources and processes in an outlet glacier of the Greenland Ice Sheet using Ca and Sr isotope ratios |
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identifying weathering sources and processes in an outlet glacier of the greenland ice sheet using ca and sr isotope ratios |
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