Hydrogen gas of organic origin in shales and metapelites
Hydrogen gas of organic origin in shales and metapelites
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页岩和变泥岩中有机来源的氢气
DOI:
10.1016/j.coal.2017.02.014
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发表时间:
2017
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
T. Hoshino
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文献类型:
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作者:
N. Suzuki;H. Saito;T. Hoshino
The changes in inorganic and organic gases retained in shales and metapelites with increasing heating temperature are not fully understood. The compositional and isotopic changes of residual gases such as H2, CH4, and CO2in marine shales and metapelites during burial diagenesis and metamorphism were investigated in the present study. Shale rocks and metapelites which experienced paleo-temperatures in the range of 100–600 °C were collected from the borehole cores in Niigata sedimentary basin and outcrops exposed in Kochi district, Japan. Gases released from shale or metapelite fragments during pulverization in the laboratory were analyzed as the residual gas.The major residual gas in shales and metapelites changes from CO2, CH4, to H2in this order with increasing temperature. Drastic decrease of CO2derived from decarboxylation of sedimentary organic matter is due to the expulsion of pore fluids with dissolved CO2. The CH4concentration in residual gas subsequently increases with organic maturation and reaches the maximum at paleo-temperature ofca.250 °C. The CH4concentration decreases during late metagenesis to metamorphism probably due to the formation of H2gas and graphite. The H2starts to increase at paleo-temperature ofca.200 °C. The H2gas is the most abundant gas in residual gas of metapelite. Theδ2Η value of H2in shales and metapelites is quite low to be in the range ofca.–850 to − 650‰. The change of major residual gas from CH4to H2with increasing paleo-temperature and the significantly lowδ2H values of H2suggest that H2gas in shales and metapelites is largely derived from liberation of hydrogen in organic matter.