Relationship between Sedimentary Facies and Interstitial Water Chemistry of Slope, Trench, and Cocos Plate Sites from the Middle America Trench Transect, Active Margin off Guatemala, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 67
Relationship between Sedimentary Facies and Interstitial Water Chemistry of Slope, Trench, and Cocos Plate Sites from the Middle America Trench Transect, Active Margin off Guatemala, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 67
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深海钻探项目第 67 段中美洲海沟断面、危地马拉活动边缘的斜坡、海沟和科科斯板块地点沉积相与间隙水化学的关系
DOI:
10.2973/dsdp.proc.67.129.1982
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发表时间:
1982
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J. Gieskes
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作者:
W. Harrison;R. Hesse;J. Gieskes
Interstitial water chemistry has proved to be a sensitive indicator for early diagenetic reactions, particularly those related to organic matter oxidation. Downhole chemical variations in the pore waters from Deep Sea Drilling Project Holes 496 and 497 on the Middle America Trench slope off Guatemala are anomalous because both salinity and chlorinity show strong decreases to half the values of seawater, and δ 1 8 θ values become positive (maximum of about + 2.5% at the bottom of the holes). These observations are explained in terms of dilution of pore waters after retrieval as a result of decomposition of the gas hydrates before removal of pore waters by shipboard squeezing techniques. In all holes, except Hole 495 (drilled in pelagic sediments), decomposition of organic matter leads to rapid sulfate depletion and subsequent methane generation. Associated with methane generation are large increases in alkalinity and dissolved ammonia. The latter component causes ion exchange reactions with clay minerals, which results in maxima in magnesium and perhaps potassium. At greater depths, as yet unidentified reactions cause the removal of magnesium. Especially in the deeper Trench Sites 499 and 500, rapid variations in calcium, magnesium, and alkalinity occur in turbidite sequences.