کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
4699897 1637676 2011 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Extreme positive Ce-anomalies in a 3.0 Ga submarine volcanic sequence, Murchison Province: Oxygenated marine bottom waters
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه علوم زمین و سیارات ژئوشیمی و پترولوژی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Extreme positive Ce-anomalies in a 3.0 Ga submarine volcanic sequence, Murchison Province: Oxygenated marine bottom waters
چکیده انگلیسی

Systematic positive anomalies of Ce, where Ce/Ce* spans 2.1 to 11.4, are present in basalts and rhyolites of a 2.96 Ga submarine volcanic sequence of the Murchison Province, Western Australia. This volcanic sequence is host to a stratabound Cu–Zn deposit that formed on the seafloor from a seawater hydrothermal system. These are true Ce anomalies as Pr/Pr* < 1. In modern oxygenated marine water Ce is sequestered by Mn-oxides and hydroxides, which coprecipitate with Fe-oxides and hydroxides as nodules and crusts on the ocean floor, as well as Fe–Mn chemical sediments from hydrothermal systems at ocean spreading centers. Fe–Mn sediments have positive Ce anomalies and marine water complementary negative anomalies. Such Ce anomalies have not formerly been reported for Archean hydrothermally altered volcanic rocks. These extreme anomalies are attributed to Mn-transport in shallow-circulating oxygenated marine bottom waters peripheral to the deeper, hotter, hydrothermal system from which the Cu–Zn deposit formed, and record an oxygenated marine environment ~ 500 Ma before the so-called great oxidation event at ~ 2.4 Ga. Results for positive Ce anomalies in the Golden Grove volcanic sequence are complementary to negative anomalies in Archean BIF, collectively stemming from particulate scavenging of Ce+ 3 in an oxic water column.

Research Highlights
► Extreme positive Ce anomalies in 2.9 Ga submarine volcanics, Western Australia.
► Positive anomalies balance negative Ce in Archean BIF.
► Collectively evidence for scavenging of Ce3+ in an oxic water column.
► Oxygenated Archean oceans 500 Ma before the putative great oxygenation event (GOE).

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Chemical Geology - Volume 280, Issues 1–2, 7 January 2011, Pages 232–241
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