CHARACTERISTICS OF CHLORINE ISOTOPES IN SALT LAKES OF KUNTEYI AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE OF PALEOCLIMATE
CHARACTERISTICS OF CHLORINE ISOTOPES IN SALT LAKES OF KUNTEYI AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE OF PALEOCLIMATE
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1998
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Liu Wei-gu
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Liu Wei-gu
Chlorine has two stable isotopes, 37Cl and 35Cl. The isotopc fractionation of chlorine in natural environmnts has been identified on the basis of the procedures for high-precision measarement of chlorine isotopes. In this parer, the feature of chlorine isotopes in the salt lakes of Kunteyi area, Qinghai, has been studied. The chiorine in the samples, including brine, oil-field warer and saline deposit, was separated using Ba-cation resin and H-cation resin to form CsCl by adjustion to pH 3 using a Cs2CO3 solution. The chlorine concentration of test solutions is around 5mg / ml. The isotopic compositions of chiorine in the brine, oil-field water and saline mineral derived from drilling in the Kunteyi salt lakes have been determined by positive thermal ionization mass spectromeny, based on the measarement of Cs2Cl+ ion.The Ta filaments were beated with a 2.5μl graphite slurry, and 2μl of test solution containing 10μg of chloride in the form of CsCl were loaded on the filament The isotopic measarements of chlorine were carried out by collecting dara on messes 301 (133Cs235Cl) and 303(133Cs2 37Cl+). The isotopc compositions of chlorine in the studied samples are expressed asδ37 Cl (‰), in relation to a reference standard seawater collected at 120°26'E,21°50' N.The results show tha δ37 Cl values vary from -2.05‰ to 1.19‰ and the brines have lower δ37Cl compared to the oil-field water. The chlorine isotopic compositions of brine are associated with the density and pH value of brine. The brines with low pH values and high densihes have low Cl values due to evaporation of brine. When brines are evaporated to saturation, Preferential incorporation of the 37Cl into the saline mineral causes depletion of 37Cl in relation tO 35Cl in the brine during the precipitation of salt The brine is subected to an isotpoical fractionation during the precipitation of the salt which causes continuous changes in the isotopic composition chlorine in the saline deposit The δ337Cl value of salt deposits from the Kunteyi bore holes decreases from the upper part towards the lower part and exhibits eight cyclical changes. Such chanes in the ‰δ37Cl value represent changes in the paleoclimate environment Therefore, the systomatic variation in δ37Cl of saline deposits is useful for the study of paleoclimate in dronght and strongly evaporated areas.