Elemental composition of lime mud recovered from coral reef Lagoonal basins, the Yaeyama Islands, Okinawa, Japan
Elemental composition of lime mud recovered from coral reef Lagoonal basins, the Yaeyama Islands, Okinawa, Japan
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从日本冲绳八重山群岛珊瑚礁泻湖盆地回收的石灰泥的元素组成
DOI:
10.4096/jssj1995.48.49
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发表时间:
1998
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通讯作者:
Nozomi Ishihara
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作者:
Satoshi Yamamoto;Nozomi Ishihara
Surface unconsolidated carbonates were sampled from lagoonal basins in the Shiraho and Sekisei Coral Reef areas, the Yaeyama Islands. Lime mud fractions were isolated from these carbonates by sieving and sedimentation methods to collect particles between 62.5 and 2,u . The isolated lime mud fractions were analyzed for carbonate-bound trace elements, C03 contents, mineralogical compositions by the X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD) , and petrographic observations including scanning electron microscope (SEM) observations. The carbonatebound trace element concentrations were determined by subtracting the 0.75 N LiCI-0.25 N CsCI in 60% ethanol leachable fraction from the 1 N ammonium acetate-acetic acid (pH adjusted to 5.2) leachable fraction. Lime mud is composed mineralogically by HMC (high-Mg calcite), HSA (high-Sr aragonite), LSA (low-Sr aragonite), and LMC (low-Mg calcite). However, the carbonate-bound Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca ratios are considerably lower in lime mud than the carbonate sand and gravels which contain the same amount of carbonate minerals with the lime mud. This suggests that Mg and Sr were leached without changing mineralogy during the formation of lime mud from coarse carbonate grains. Diagenetic changes in lime mud might have already started before its lithification processes to limestone.