The geochemistry of iodine and bromine in sediments of the Panama Basin
The geochemistry of iodine and bromine in sediments of the Panama Basin
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2019
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F. Pedersen;N. Price
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F. Pedersen;N. Price
The areal and vertical distribution of iodine, bromine and organic carbon has been examined in a suite of sediment cores from the Panama Basin. Both halogens are approximately correlative with organic carbon in surface sediments. The concentrations of all three element s vary sympathetically but considerably with depth, especi ally in equatorial carbonate oozes where a distinct mid-depth (40-80 cm) concentration maximum is observed. Iodide is the dominant iodine species in interstitial water. Detailed pore water profiles of two cores display iodine increases at depth; in one of the cores the mid-depth halogen enrichment is clearly a major locus of dissolved iodine production. AU cores characteri stically show a first-order decrease in the sediment 1/C. ,. ratio with depth. In contrast, Br/ C. ,, profiles show considerable variation; subsurface peaks in the ratio roughly reflect the sediment Br distribution. The contrastive diagenetic behavior of the two halogens implies bonding by different organic ligands. The coincident carbon, iodine and bromine peaks at depth in biogenic equatorial sediments are temporally related to the maximum of the Wisconsin glacial advance. Simple calculations suggest that a minor proportion of the Pacific iodine reservoir could have been removed to carbon-rich equatorial Pacific sediments during the Wisconsin maximum, implying that climatic fluctuations may indirectly have a minor importance in regulating the oceanic iodine balance.