Chemical Influences on Trace Metal-Sulphide Interactions in Anoxic Sediments
Chemical Influences on Trace Metal-Sulphide Interactions in Anoxic Sediments
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缺氧沉积物中痕量金属-硫化物相互作用的化学影响
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1998
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G. Luther
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G. Luther
The major changes that occur in redox conditions between oxic waters and anoxic sediments can have profound influences on the speciation and bioavailability of many trace metals. Anoxic conditions in sediments are commonly sufficiently reducing to result in the microbially-mediated production of major amounts of hydrogen sulphide in marine and estuarine environments. Although most of the H2S is usually reoxidized, a significant fraction generally reacts to form metal sulphides with pyrite (FeS2) being by far the most abundant reaction product. However, there is also the potential for other metal sulphide minerals to form, and for minor and trace metals to coprecipitate and adsorb on iron sulphides. Although for many years observations were made on correlations between trace metals and sulphidic sediments, it was not until less than a decade ago that major direct evidence for the interactions of trace metals with sulphides in anoxic sediments began to become available. Using a modification of the pyriteFe extraction method of Lord (1982), Huerta-Diaz and Morse (1990) were able to determine trace metals that were co-leached with pyrite-Fe. Since the development of this technique thousands of analyses have been performed on sediments from numerous locations (e.g. Huerta Diaz and Morse, 1992; Morse, 1994, Cooper and Morse, 1996) and clear patterns of behaviour for different trace metals have emerged.