Changes to cadmium associations in canal sediments on drying and oxidation

The mainly 19th Century canal system in the UK, largely managed by British Waterways, has been increasingly brought back into operation over the last few decades, and is now widely used for both leisure, and, increasingly, transport. Both initial and routine dredging of the canal sediment is carried out and these sediments are generally disposed of to land. Because many of the canals were connected with primary industries, their sediments can locally be significantly contaminated with heavy metals, and the behaviour of these metals under differing redox conditions, when introduced into a new environment （i.e., on land） is of importance for environmental risk-assessment purposes. Canal sediments are often rich in sulfidic mineral phases, and we have attempted to quantify the influence of these sulfidic phases on the release and retention of metals in dredged canal sediments, using a combination of traditional chemical techniques （e.g. sequential extraction） and X-ray absorption spectroscopy （XAS）. Sediment samples have been collected from urban fresh-water canals, one in the British Midlands and one in Northern France. It appears from XAS that Cd is largely associated with oxygen in air-dried sediment, and with sulphur in vacuum-dried sediment.     

Oxidation of the Kaapvaal lithospheric mantle driven by metasomatism

The oxidation state, reflected in the oxygen fugacity (fO₂), of the subcratonic lithospheric mantle is laterally and vertically heterogeneous. In the garnet stability field, the Kaapvaal lithospheric mantle becomes progressively more reducing with increasing depth from Δlog fO₂ FMQ-2 at 110 km to FMQ-4 at 210 km. Oxidation accompanying metasomatism has obscured this crystal-chemical controlled depth-fO₂ trend in the mantle beneath Kimberley, South Africa. Chondrite normalized REE patterns for garnets, preserve evidence of a range in metasomatic enrichment from mild metasomatism in harzburgites to extensive metasomatism by LREE-enriched fluids and melts with fairly unfractionated LREE/HREE ratios in phlogopite-bearing lherzolites. The metasomatized xenoliths record redox conditions extending up to Δlog fO₂ = FMQ, sufficiently oxidized that magnesite would be the stable host of carbon in the most metasomatized samples. The most oxidized lherzolites, those in or near the carbonate stability field, have the greatest modal abundance of phlogopite and clinopyroxene. Clinopyroxene is modally less abundant or absent in the most reduced peridotite samples. The infiltration of metasomatic fluids/melts into diamondiferous lithospheric mantle beneath the Kaapvaal craton converted reduced, anhydrous harzburgite into variably oxidized phlogopite-bearing lherzolite. Locally, portions of the lithospheric mantle were metasomatized and oxidized to an extent that conversion of diamond into carbonate should have occurred. Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.     

吐哈盆地西南缘地浸砂岩型铀矿地质特征及找矿前景

通过对近几年来十红滩地区铀矿勘查资料及找矿成果的综合研究，系统阐述了吐哈盆地西南缘十红滩矿床的地质构造、含矿岩系沉积环境、砂体分布、层问氧化带发育特征等铀成矿条件，对矿区南、北矿带控矿层间氧化带分带性、矿体形态、规模、空间展布、铀存在形式、成矿年龄及铀成矿规律进行了详细研究。进一步总结了区域砂岩型铀成矿条件和找矿前景，指出吐哈盆地西南缘随着找矿工作进展可望成为大型地浸砂岩型铀资源基地，并对指导天山造山带及类似地区地浸砂岩型铀矿找矿具有重要意义。     

Elucidation of the Alum Shale kerogen structure using a multi-disciplinary approach

The significance and validity of integrating data obtained from a variety of analytical techniques to understand, elucidate and model kerogen's complex chemical structure is reported here using degradative (open and closed system pyrolysis, chemical oxidation), non-degradative (¹³C CP/MAS NMR) and optical (incident white light and blue light) methods. Seven Cambrian Alum Shale samples, ranging in maturity from immature to post-mature with respect to petroleum generation, were studied and were chosen for their simple geological history, uniform organic matter type and high organic carbon content. The Alum Shale kerogens, which primarily consist of algal organic matter, liberate low molecular weight gaseous and aromatic compounds on pyrolysis and give mostly branched dicarboxylic acids on chemical oxidation. ¹³C NMR spectroscopy shows that the Alum Shale kerogens are anomalously rich in oxygen-bearing functional groups (such as C = O, ArCO, CHO, CH_xO), most of which apparently remain intact within the kerogen macro-molecule (KMM) through the diagenetic and catagenetic stages. Fragments released by different degradative techniques are quantified and the aromaticity (f_a), O/C and relative proportions of various carbon types estimated by ¹³C NMR. A synthesis of these data has allowed us to better understand the chemistry of the Alum Shale kerogen.     

Oxydation expérimentale de Fe-tourmalines et corrélation avec une déprotonation des groupes hydroxyleAnnealing in oxidising conditions of Fe-tourmalines and correlated deprotonation of OH groups

Annealing at 400?T?600 °C (40?P?60 MPa and HM buffer-controlled f(O₂)) of tourmalines synthesised at the same T and P with NNO buffer induces an oxidation of Fe²⁺ into Fe³⁺ in some Y sites only (Mössbauer Spectroscopy data). Annealing in the same conditions of natural tourmalines is consistent with these results. FTIR spectroscopy shows that oxidation of Fe²⁺ into Fe³⁺ is charge-balanced by deprotonation of the external OH₍₃₎ groups. To cite this article: Y. Fuchs et al., C. R. Geoscience 334 (2002) 245–249.     

煤矿酸性矿井水主动式生物修复中铁的行为与归宿

酸性条件下Fe(II)的生物氧化过程可以被有效应用于煤矿酸性矿井水修复中,但是Fe行为与归宿的不确定性增加了应用难度。本研究通过对某煤矿酸性矿井水场地发生的生物地球化学过程进行监测,富集培养场地沉积物嗜酸微生物群落,进行室内恒化生物反应器连续流实验,探究微生物作用下Fe及其他金属离子的行为与归宿。研究表明,Fe的形态转化是场地和反应器中最主要的生物地球化学过程。当pH<2.7时,反应更倾向于产生溶解性Fe(III);当2.7相似文献   

Identification of functionally active aerobic methanotrophs and their methane oxidation potential in sediments from the Shenhu Area,South China Sea

Large amounts of gas hydrate are distributed in the northern slope of the South China Sea, which is a potential threat of methane leakage. Aerobic methane oxidation by methanotrophs, significant methane biotransformation that occurs in sediment surface and water column, can effectively reduce atmospheric emission of hydrate-decomposed methane. To identify active aerobic methanotrophs and their methane oxidation potential in sediments from the Shenhu Area in the South China Sea, multi-day enrichm...     

吐哈盆地水文地质条件研究

铀成矿层间氧化带的形成，发育与地下水的形成演化密切相关，本文采用古水文地质的分析方法，对吐哈盆地地下水的演化史进行了研究，定量确定了地静压力系统和水静压力系统对沉积水的改造作用，计算了压挤水和渗入水的水交替强度，指出了铀成矿层间氧化带发育的有利地区。     

Mössbauer effect study of anapaite, Ca2Fe2+(PO4)2 · 4H2O, and of its oxidation products

Mössbauer spectra (MS) of anapaite (Ca₂ Fe²⁺(PO₄)₂?·?4H₂O) and of a sample after being immersed in a 4% H₂O₂ solution at room temperature (RT) over 12 days (hereafter an4ox) were collected at temperatures in the range 4.2 to 420?K and 11 to 300?K respectively. All MS consist of symmetrical doublets, hence magnetic ordering was not observed. The temperature dependencies of the Fe²⁺ centre shifts of anapaite and an4ox were analysed with the Debye model for the lattice vibrations. The characteristic Mössbauer temperatures were found as 370?K?±?25?K and 340?K?±?25?K, and the intrinsic isomer shifts as 1.427?±?0.005?mm/s and 1.418?±?0.005?mm/s respectively. From the external-field (60?kOe) MS recorded at 4.2 and 189?K for the non-treated sample, the principal component V _zz of the electric field gradient (EFG) is determined to be positive and the asymmetry parameter η?≈?0.2 and 0.4 respectively. The temperature variations of the quadrupole splittings, ΔE _Q(T), cannot be interpreted on the basis of the thermal population of the ⁵ D electronic levels resulting from the tetragonal compression of the O₆ co-ordination. The low-temperature linear behaviour of ΔE _Q(T) is attributed to a strong orbit-lattice coupling. A field of 60 kOe applied to anapaite at 4.2?K produces magnetic hyperfine splitting with effective hyperfine fields of ?136, ?254 and ?171?kOe along the principal axes Ox, Oy and Oz of the EFG tensor respectively. Additional oxidation treatments in solutions with various H₂O₂ concentrations up to 20% and subsequent Mössbauer experiments at room temperature, have revealed that the anapaite structure is not sensitive to oxidation since eventually only a small amount of Fe²⁺ (～6.5%) is converted into Fe³⁺.     

碳酸锰氧化实验和热力学分析

通过对碳酸锰氧化实验的结果分析和讨论，建立了一种适合于锰氧化过程的非平衡热力学模型，并利用此模型对硫酸锰氧化过程作了热力学可行性分析，研究结果表明，碳酸锰氧化过程是矿物组合的变化过程，也是锰自身价态的转为过程，整个过程既存在平衡状态，又存在非平衡状态，是一个不可逆的，多相的复杂反应。