Ge/Si and Ge Isotope Fractionation During Glacial and Non-glacial Weathering: Field and Experimental Data From West Greenland
<jats:p>Glacial environments offer the opportunity to study the incipient stages of chemical weathering due to the high availability of finely ground sediments, low water temperatures, and typically short rock-water interaction times. In this study we focused on the geochemical behavior of ger...
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ftunivcam:oai:www.repository.cam.ac.uk:1810/319300 2024-02-04T10:00:35+01:00 Ge/Si and Ge Isotope Fractionation During Glacial and Non-glacial Weathering: Field and Experimental Data From West Greenland Baronas, JJ Hammond, DE Bennett, MM Rouxel, O Pitcher, LH Smith, LC 2021-03-29T07:03:41Z text/xml application/zip application/pdf https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/319300 https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.66421 en eng eng Frontiers Media SA http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.551900 Frontiers in Earth Science https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/319300 doi:10.17863/CAM.66421 glacial weathering germanium isotope fractionation Amorphous silica experimental dissolution Article 2021 ftunivcam https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.66421 2024-01-11T23:27:00Z <jats:p>Glacial environments offer the opportunity to study the incipient stages of chemical weathering due to the high availability of finely ground sediments, low water temperatures, and typically short rock-water interaction times. In this study we focused on the geochemical behavior of germanium (Ge) in west Greenland, both during subglacial weathering by investigating glacier-fed streams, as well as during a batch reactor experiment by allowing water-sediment interaction for up to 2 years in the laboratory. Sampled in late August 2014, glacial stream Ge and Si concentrations were low, ranging between 12–55 pmol/L and 7–33 µmol/L, respectively (Ge/Si = 0.9–2.2 µmol/mol, similar to parent rock). As reported previously, the dissolved stable Ge isotope ratio (δ<jats:sup>74</jats:sup>Ge) of the Watson River was 0.86 <jats:inline-formula> ± </jats:inline-formula> 0.24‰, the lowest among global rivers and streams measured to date. This value was only slightly heavier than the suspended load (0.48 <jats:inline-formula> ± </jats:inline-formula> 0.23‰), which is likely representative of the bulk parent rock composition. Despite limited Ge/Si and <jats:inline-formula> δ 74 G e </jats:inline-formula>Ge fractionation, both Ge and Si appear depleted relative to Na during subglacial weathering, which we interpret as the relatively congruent uptake of both phases by amorphous silica (aSi). Continued sediment-water interaction over 470–785 days in the lab produced a large increase in dissolved Si concentrations (up to 130–230 µmol/L), a much smaller increase in dissolved Ge (up to ∼70 pmol/L), resulting in a Ge/Si decrease (to 0.4–0.5 µmol/mol) and a significant increase in δ<jats:sup>74</jats:sup>Ge (to 1.9–2.2‰). We argue that during the experiment, both Si and Ge are released by the dissolution of previously subglacially formed aSi, and Ge is then incorporated into secondary phases (likely adsorbed to Fe oxyhydroxides), with an associated ... Article in Journal/Newspaper glacier Greenland Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository Greenland |
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<jats:p>Glacial environments offer the opportunity to study the incipient stages of chemical weathering due to the high availability of finely ground sediments, low water temperatures, and typically short rock-water interaction times. In this study we focused on the geochemical behavior of germanium (Ge) in west Greenland, both during subglacial weathering by investigating glacier-fed streams, as well as during a batch reactor experiment by allowing water-sediment interaction for up to 2 years in the laboratory. Sampled in late August 2014, glacial stream Ge and Si concentrations were low, ranging between 12–55 pmol/L and 7–33 µmol/L, respectively (Ge/Si = 0.9–2.2 µmol/mol, similar to parent rock). As reported previously, the dissolved stable Ge isotope ratio (δ<jats:sup>74</jats:sup>Ge) of the Watson River was 0.86 <jats:inline-formula> ± </jats:inline-formula> 0.24‰, the lowest among global rivers and streams measured to date. This value was only slightly heavier than the suspended load (0.48 <jats:inline-formula> ± </jats:inline-formula> 0.23‰), which is likely representative of the bulk parent rock composition. Despite limited Ge/Si and <jats:inline-formula> δ 74 G e </jats:inline-formula>Ge fractionation, both Ge and Si appear depleted relative to Na during subglacial weathering, which we interpret as the relatively congruent uptake of both phases by amorphous silica (aSi). Continued sediment-water interaction over 470–785 days in the lab produced a large increase in dissolved Si concentrations (up to 130–230 µmol/L), a much smaller increase in dissolved Ge (up to ∼70 pmol/L), resulting in a Ge/Si decrease (to 0.4–0.5 µmol/mol) and a significant increase in δ<jats:sup>74</jats:sup>Ge (to 1.9–2.2‰). We argue that during the experiment, both Si and Ge are released by the dissolution of previously subglacially formed aSi, and Ge is then incorporated into secondary phases (likely adsorbed to Fe oxyhydroxides), with an associated ... |
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Ge/Si and Ge Isotope Fractionation During Glacial and Non-glacial Weathering: Field and Experimental Data From West Greenland |
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Ge/Si and Ge Isotope Fractionation During Glacial and Non-glacial Weathering: Field and Experimental Data From West Greenland |
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Ge/Si and Ge Isotope Fractionation During Glacial and Non-glacial Weathering: Field and Experimental Data From West Greenland |
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Ge/Si and Ge Isotope Fractionation During Glacial and Non-glacial Weathering: Field and Experimental Data From West Greenland |
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Ge/Si and Ge Isotope Fractionation During Glacial and Non-glacial Weathering: Field and Experimental Data From West Greenland |
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ge/si and ge isotope fractionation during glacial and non-glacial weathering: field and experimental data from west greenland |
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