淡水养殖珍珠的矿物组成特征

采用粉末X射线衍射分析及显微激光拉曼光谱对三角帆蚌养殖珍珠的矿物组成进行了研究。结果表明，浙江诸暨产三角帆蚌淡水珍珠的矿物组成主要为文石。在无商业价值的部分珍珠中存在六方碳钙石。其中具珍珠光泽的珍珠层一般呈半透明状，均为文石组成；无珍珠光泽的不透明层有时由文石组成，有时由六方碳钙石组成。三角帆蚌淡水养殖珍珠中不存在方解石，这与海水养殖珍珠中存在方解石明显不同。     

文石方解石化对文石石笋δ18O记录的影响

近年来,文石石笋成为古气候研究的新材料,但文石的方解石化对文石石笋氧同位素的影响问题仍未很好地解决。选取湖南湘西莲花洞方解石化文石石笋LH5为研究对象,基于18个TIMS-U系年龄和311个δ18O,探讨了方解石化对文石石笋古气候记录的影响。结果表明：1）文石的方解石化会引起文石矿物中所赋存的铀元素流失,造成铀系年龄的倒转,但LH5石笋中下部铀系衰变体系的开放程度较低（＜10%）,在剔除异常年龄后,仍可构建时间标尺。2）通过末次冰消期气候事件的对比发现：文石的方解石化会导致δ18O的异常波动,末次冰消期其他中国南方石笋记录的气候事件,如B?lling-Aller?d和新仙女木事件等在LH5石笋中都难以确认。而在LH5石笋的中上部文石层段,δ18O波动却能够很好地记录气候的变化。3）洞穴滴水的淋滤被认为是文石方解石化的主要原因之一。但对于LH5石笋而言,洞穴滴水的溅蚀作用可能在文石向方解石转变过程中起到了重要作用。由于在石笋的不同部位受到溅蚀淋滤的强度不同,以及石笋结构的非均一性等原因,导致文石的方解石化不均匀,这也最终造成LH5石笋文石-方解石层段δ18O的非线性变化,失去记录气候变化的能力。     

Pleistocene sea‐floor fibrous crusts and spherulites in the Danakil Depression (Afar,Ethiopia)

Pleistocene fibrous aragonite fabrics, including crusts and spherules, occur in the Danakil Depression (Afar, Ethiopia) following the deposition of two distinctive Middle and Late Pleistocene coralgal reef units and pre‐dating the precipitation of evaporites. Crusts on top of the oldest reef unit (Marine Isotope Stage 7) cover and fill cavities within a red algal framework. The younger aragonite crusts directly cover coralgal bioherms (Marine Isotope Stage 5) and associated deposits. Their stratigraphic position between marine and evaporitic deposits, and their association to euryhaline molluscs, suggest that the crusts and spherules formed in restricted semi‐enclosed conditions. The availability of hard substrate controls crust formation with crusts more often found on steep palaeo‐slopes, from sea level up to at least 80 m depth, while spherules mainly occur associated with mobile substrate. Crusts reach up to 30 cm in thickness and can be microdigitate, columnar (branching and non‐branching) or non‐columnar, with laminated and non‐laminated fabrics. Two different lamination types are found within the crystalline fabrics: (i) isopachous lamination; and (ii) irregular lamination. These two types of lamination can be distinguished by the organization of the aragonite fibres, as well as the lateral continuity of the laminae. Scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy analyses on well‐preserved samples revealed the presence of Mg‐silicate laminae intercalated with fibrous aragonite, as well as Mg‐silicate aggregates closely associated with the fibrous aragonite crusts and spherules. The variety of observed fabrics results from a continuum of abiotic and microbial processes and, thus, reflects the tight interaction between microbially mediated and abiotic mineralization mechanisms. These are the youngest known isopachously laminated, digitate and columnar branching fibrous crusts associated with a transition from marine to evaporitic conditions. Understanding the context of formation of these deposits in Afar can help to better interpret the depositional environment of the widespread Precambrian sea‐floor precipitates.     

石笋矿物类型、成因及其对气候和环境的指示

洞穴石笋的矿物组成分为方解石、文石和文石-方解石三种类型。本文总结了国内外已有的研究成果,并结合野外观测现象和数据,讨论了影响石笋矿物形成和转变的因素,分析了利用石笋矿物类型特征研究古气候和古环境变化的可行性。洞内滴水饱和度和滴水中Mg/Ca比值是影响石笋矿物类型的主要因素:当滴水Mg/Ca 比值较低（Mg/Ca＜1或<<1）时,滴水饱和度较低易形成方解石,而文石沉积则需要更高的滴水饱和度;当滴水Mg/Ca 比值较高（Mg/Ca≥1）时,方解石相对文石沉积需要更高的滴水饱和度。洞穴围岩镁含量高且滴水多而稳定的洞内环境是我国南方大量文石笋发育的主要原因。长期处于滴水淋滤环境的文石笋容易向方解石转变,但若滴水中Mg2+浓度较大,此转变过程会受到抑制。在围岩镁含量较低的洞穴中,干旱时期渗流水滞留时间长、滴水速率变慢,会造成滴水中Mg/Ca比值升高并引起文石沉积。因此,石笋矿物类型及矿物相转变可指示气候和环境的变化。      

Dissolution experiment and transformation condition analysis of Paleogene aragonite in the Jiyang Depression,China

In general, aragonite exists as a metastable carbonate mineral under near-surface conditions, and is commonly transformed into calcite under the subsurface and during diagenesis. It is thus seldom found in sedimentary rocks, but aragonite is common in the Paleogene lacustrine shales in the Jiyang Depression in eastern China. Dissolution experiments were conducted on the Paleogene aragonite-enriched and calcite-enriched shales at different temperatures, pressures and acetic acid concentrations, and in different types of solution. The results show that aragonite is insoluble in the in situ formation water but dissolved more readily under acetic acid conditions than calcite with the degree of dissolution increasing with increasing temperature, pressure and acetic acid concentrations. During the shallow burial diagenesis of the Paleogene sediment sequence in the Jiyang Depression, aragonite was relatively stable and was not dissolved by the connate pore water in the shales. Increasing burial (temperature) and maturity of the organic matter produced large amounts of organic acids that accelerated the dissolution of aragonite. In the late stage, as the organic matter became over-matured, the pore water changed from acidic to alkaline, and calcite precipitated from the carbonate-rich solution. Therefore, the conditions provided by organic acids enabled the conversion of aragonite to calcite during sedimentary diagenesis in the Paleogene lacustrine shales in the Jiyang Depression. This transformation corresponded to the thermal evolution of the organic matter within the shale sequence.     

The sedimentary and geochemical record of Neogene-Quaternary water bodies in the Dead Sea Basin - inferences for the regional paleoclimatic history

Several waterbodies occupied the tectonic depressions along the Dead Sea transform during the NeogeneQuaternary. The earliest of these water bodies was the marine Sedom lagoon, which produced the SedomDead Sea brine. After the disconnection of the Sedom lagoon from the open sea several lakes were developed in the Dead Sea basinJordan Valley. Lake Amora (Samra) that existed from early to late Pleistocene, Lake Lisan (~ 70–15 kyr B.P.), and the Holocene Dead Sea. The lacustrine water bodies in the Dead Sea basin behave as amplifier lakes whose size and depth reflect the changing climatic conditions in the region. Lake level and limnological conditions of Lake Amora are not yet known, nevertheless, the lake probably extended over a large part of the Dead Sea basin-Jordan Valley. Lake Lisan level changed between ~ 330 and ~ 150 meters below sea level (m b.s.l.). Its maximum elevation was reached at ~ 27–23 kyr B.P. during marine isotope stage 2. Its minimum elevation was reached at ~ 47–43 kyr during marine isotope stage 3. Lake Lisan began to recede at ~ 17–15 kyr B.P. and at 12–11 kyr B.P. the postLisan water body declined to its minimum level. During most of the Holocene the lake (paleoDead Sea) stabilized at ~ 400 m b.s.l.The limnological evolution of water bodies in the Dead Sea basin reflects the climatic conditions in the region during the late Pleistocene, which fluctuated between wetter and drier periods. During Lisan time these fluctuations appear to be modulated by the cold and warm cycles, respectively in the northern Hemisphere. This relation is less obvious in the postLisan water body, where the strongest lake drop appears to occur during the Younger Dryas cold event.     

Whiting events and the formation of aragonite in Mediterranean Karstic Marine Lakes: new evidence on its biologically induced inorganic origin

This paper discusses the formation of whiting events, drifting milky clouds of water, and their role in the formation of recent aragonite sediments in a semi-enclosed, karstic, marine lake on the island of Mljet (Adriatic Sea). This study is based on detailed structural, morphological and sedimentological characterization of, and strontium distribution in, particles originating from suspended matter and sediments. The particles were examined by X-ray diffraction and electron diffraction analyses, scanning and transmission electron microscopy, as well as electron microprobe energy dispersive X-ray analyses and atomic absorption spectroscopy. Morphological features, granulometric characteristics, strontium enrichment and characteristic details of the aragonite structure in the needle-like particles were identical in both the suspended matter collected during whiting events and in the bottom sediments. The whiting events, which occasionally occurred in surface waters, were found to be sites of short-term active authigenic aragonite precipitation and the main source of fine-grained aragonite mud. This study exemplifies the role of biologically induced inorganic precipitation processes in the formation of recent aragonite mud in a restricted Mediterranean environment.     

室温条件下青海湖水中镁离子浓度对沉淀碳酸钙同质多像类型的调控

青海湖是我国唯一报道过的现代湖底沉积物中白云石、方解石和文石等多种碳酸盐矿物共存的高原内陆咸水湖泊.以青海湖水和除菌青海湖水作为载体,以CaCl2和MgCl2·6 H2O作为反应原料,在实验室常温条件下采取控制变量法制备出不同浓度Mg2+参与下的钙质沉淀物,探讨Mg2+浓度对沉淀物类型的影响.仅添加CaCl2时,青海湖...     

文石—水体系氧同位素分馏机理的实验研究

采用“附晶生长法”分别在５０和７０℃下合成文石下矿物,获得了两种不同的文石与水之间的氧同位素分馏关系。结果证明,文石与水之间氧同位素分馏的化学动力学机 为两步：（１）碳酸根与水之间进行氧同位素交换和平衡,即：「Ｃ＾１６Ｏ３」＾＾３－＋２Ｈ２＾１８Ｏ＝「Ｃ＾１８Ｏ３＾１６Ｏ」＾２－＋２Ｈ２Ｏ１６Ｏ;（２）与水平衡以后的「ＣＯ２」＾２－离子与Ｃａ＾２＋结合生成文石,即：Ｃａ＾２＋＋＿「Ｃ＾１８Ｏ２＾１     

碳酸钙-水体系氧同位素平衡及稳态分馏的低温实验研究

采用“一步”和“两步”的直接沉淀法和附晶生长法在 5 0℃和 70℃分别合成碳钡矿和文石 ,测定不同条件下合成矿物与水之间的氧同位素分馏 ,结果显示 ,文石—水体系氧同位素分馏机理分两步 :(1) [CO3 ]2 - 与H2 O的氧同位素交换和平衡 ,此过程是文石 水氧同位素平衡的决速率步骤 ;(2 )与H2 O平衡以后的 [CO3 ]2 - 与Ca2 +]结合生成文石 ,此过程体现矿物形成过程中氧同位素分馏的结构效应。在此基础上 ,采用缓慢沉淀法和“两步”的附晶生长法获得了 0～ 70℃的文石 水体系氧同位素平衡分馏方程。采用“一步”和“两步”的附晶生长法在 5 0℃和 70℃合成文石 ,文石在溶液中经同质多象转变成次生方解石 ;结合文献数据 ,获得 0～ 70℃范围内的方解石 水体系稳态氧同位素分馏方程。