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Roger A. Burke James M. Brooks William M. Sackett 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1981,45(5):627-634
Light hydrocarbon (C1-C3) concentrations in the water from four Red Sea brine basins (Atlantis II, Suakin, Nereus and Valdivia Deeps) and in sediment pore waters from two of these areas (Atlantis II and Suakin Deeps) are reported. The hydrocarbon gases in the Suakin Deep brine (T = ~ 25°C, , ) are apparently of biogenic origin as evidenced by ) ratios of ~ 1000. Methane concentrations (6–8 μl/l) in Suakin Deep sediments are nearly equal to those in the brine, suggesting sedimentary interstitial waters may be the source of the brine and associated methane.The Atlantis II Deep has two brine layers with significantly different light hydrocarbon concentrations indicating separate sources. The upper brine (T = ~ 50°C, , CH4 = ~ 155 μl/l) gas seems to be of biogenic origin [], whereas the lower brine (T = ~ 61°C, , CH4 = ~ 120μl/l) gas is apparently of thermogenic origin []. The thermogenic gas resulting from thermal cracking of organic matter in the sedimentary column apparently migrates into the basin with the brine, whereas the biogenic gas is produced in situ or at the seawater-brine interface. Methane concentrations in Atlantis II interstitial waters underlying the lower brine are about one half brine concentrations; this difference possibly reflects the known temporal variations of hydrothermal activity in the basin. 相似文献
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Polyunsaturated fatty acids (C18:2 and C18:3ω3 were analyzed in the upper 20m layer of a 200 m long sediment core taken from Lake Biwa. Concentration maxima occur in layers at depths of 0.2, 1–5, 11–12, and 16m. The vertical changes in the ratio appear to correlate with paleoclimatic condition suggested from palynological evidence. On the basis of ratios, it was suggested that it has been colder at 200, 1000–4000, 15,000 and 20,000 yr BP than at other times. 相似文献
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Stuart G. Wakeham 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1982,46(11):2239-2257
The vertical flux and composition of wax esters, steryl esters, triacylglycerols, and alkyldiacylglycerols in particulate matter was determined in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean by deploying sediment traps at 389, 988, 3,755 and 5,068 m. Detailed compositional analyses of these lipids were carried out by high temperature glass capillary gas chromatography and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry.The distributions of these lipids are discussed in terms of potential biological sources. Zooplankton fecal matter and intact zooplankters may represent the most important input of these compounds to the shallower two traps, while the material in the deeper two traps appears to have been biogeochemically altered. The finding of these biochemically important compounds, often unsaturated, indicates that particle transit through the water column must be relatively fast.Wax esters were most abundant in the 389 m sediment trap and decreased with increasing trap depth. Compounds ranging from C28–C44 were present at all depths. The major homologs were C32, C34 and C36, most often monounsaturated. The dominant alcohol/acid combinations in the 389 m trap were and , but in the 988 m sample, was the major wax ester. A flux maximum was observed for steryl esters at 988 m. Cholesteryl esters of C14:0, C16:1 and C16:0, and fatty acids were the dominant steryl esters. For triacylglycerols, fluxes in the 389 and 988 m traps were similar, while the deeper pair of traps contained much less triacylglycerol. C46, C48, C50 and C52 compounds were the major triacylglycerols. Constituent fatty acids in the 389 m and 988 m samples were mainly C14:0, C16:1, C16:0, C18:1 and C18:0. In the 988 m material, C20:5 and C22:6 were also dominant. A homologous series of alkyldiacylglycerols was abundant in the 389 m trap material. The alkyldiacylglycerols consisted of C46–C56 compounds composed of C16:0 alkyl moieties and C14:0, C16:0, C18:1, and C18:0 fatty acids. 相似文献
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Variations in the chemical composition of sedimentary rocks and the nature of kerogen through geologic time were investigated in order to obtain information on biological and environmental evolution during the pre-Phanerozoic eon. Rock samples differing in lithology, depositional environment, and age were pulverized, pre-extracted with organic solvents, and analyzed for total nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and organic carbon (org. C or CT). Variations in the molecular structure of kerogen were measured by determining the ratio of org. C content after pyrolysis (CR) to org. C content before pyrolysis (CT), the ratio being considered an index of the degree of condensed-aromatic (as opposed to aliphatic) character. The rocks included mudstones (Early Archean (> 3 · 109 years old) to Miocene), carbonate rocks (mid-Proterozoic (1.3 · 109 years old) to Eocene), cherts (Early Archean (> 3 · 109 years old) to Late Proterozoic (0.8 · 109 years old)), and coal (Archean (> 2.7 · 109 years old) to Early Proterozoic (～1.8 · 109 years old)).The mudstones and carbonates showed progressive increase in org. C content with decreasing age, as reported by other investigators, but the cherts unexpectedly showed a decrease in org. C content with decreasing age. In all samples, a simple inverse correlation between ratio and org. C was observed, each rock type forming its own trend separate from but parallel to those of the other rock types. Thus, the older cherts tend to be richer in org. C and have lower ratios, but the older carbonates and mudstones are poorer in org. C and have higher ratios. For a given org. C concentration, chert has the highest ratio and carbonate rock the lowest, mudstone being intermediate; this may mean that chert is relatively ineffective as a catalyst for the thermal cracking of kerogen or that it inhibits cracking. N appears to be correlated with org. C. The relationship between ratio and org. C or N suggests that the concentrations of org. C and N in sedimentary rocks are largely determined by selective elimination of labile aliphatic and nitrogenous groups of kerogen during post-depositional maturation, although the nature, abundance and depositional environment of the organic source material must be taken into consideration as well. The observed secular variations of org. C, N and ratio may be ascribed to several possible causes, including age-dependent post-depositional alteration of kerogen, secular decrease in the ratio of the atmosphere and hydrosphere during pre-Phanerozoic time, secular increase in rates of accumulation of organic matter in sediments and evolutionary changes in the composition of the biological source material. The secular variations of the carbonates and mudstones could be accounted for by age-dependent cumulative effects of post-depositional alteration alone, whereas the secular variations of the cherts probably reflect changes in the nature of the biological source material and the composition of the atmosphere and hydrosphere. The available evidence suggests that primary characteristics of kerogen are better preserved in chert than in the other types of sediment.The ratios of the carbonates and cherts correlate negatively with the absorbance ratios of “humic matter” extracted from the same rock samples with benzene—methanol. Thus, the greater the degree of condensed-aromatic character of the kerogen, the greater the degree of condensed-aromatic character of the solvent-extractable bituminous “humic matter” with which it is associated. In addition, the ratio of aliphatic to carbonyl-type groups () in the extractable “humic matter” of carbonates and cherts correlates with the non-extractable org. C content of the rocks, suggesting that the org. C data are related to the degree of aliphatic character of the kerogen. The chemical similarity between extractable “humic matter” and its associated kerogen is evidence that the “humic matter” is as old as its rock matrix and can be accepted as a valid chemical fossil. It also suggests that information obtainable from kerogen may be gotten more easily, rapidly and cheaply from solvent-extractable organic matter. The mudstones showed little or no relationship between ratio and ratio, or between ratio and org. C content. The data are consistent with the hypothesis that the kerogen in the carbonates and cherts is autochthonous, whereas the kerogen in the mudstones is partly allochthonous, implying the existence of soil humus and soil organisms in pre-Phanerozoic times. Moreover, the existence of coal in Archean sediments is consistent with the existence of very shallow-water and possibly terrestrial microfloras possessing adaptations for protection against ultraviolet solar radiation.The P content of the sediments showed a complicated zig-zag pattern of variation through geologic time. All the different suites of samples gave similar results, indicating that the variations represent phenomena whose effects were worldwide and independent of local environment. P levels are low in the early pre-Phanerozoic but rise with decreasing age until ～ 1 · 109 years B.P., then fall to a minimum at (～0.7–0.8) · 109 years B.P., and rise again to a lower Paleozoic (Ediacarian?) maximum, decline to a later Paleozoic minimum, and then rise again. The low P content of early pre-Phanerozoic sediments could be due to several factors, including high CO2 content of seawater, anaerobic conditions in the sea, absence of stable-shelf environments, and low rates of primary production. The minimum in the Late Proterozoic is tentatively attributed to the Late Proterozoic glaciations. The data are consistent with the theory that the glacial episode was of worldwide extent. 相似文献
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Distribution and isotopic composition (δ13C) of low molecular weight hydrocarbon gases were studied in Big Soda Lake (depth = 64 m), an alkaline, meromictic lake with permanently anoxic bottom waters. Methane increased with depth in the anoxic mixolimnion (depth = 20–35 m), reached uniform concentrations (55 μM/l) in the monimolimnion (35–64 m) and again increased with depth in monimolimnion bottom sediments (>400 μM/kg below 1 m sub-bottom depth). The μ13C[CH4] values in bottom sediment below 1 m sub-bottom depth (<?70 per mil) increased with vertical distance up the core (δ13C[CH4] = ?55 per mil at sediment surface). Monimolimnion δ13C[CH4] values (?55 to ?61 per mil) were greater than most δ13C[CH4] values found in the anoxic mixolimnion (92% of samples had δ13C[CH4] values between ?20 and ?48 per mil). No significant concentrations of ethylene or propylene were found in the lake. However ethane, propane, isobutane and n-butane concentrations all increased with water column depth, with respective maximum concentrations of 260, 80, 23 and 22 nM/l encountered between 50–60 m depth. Concentrations of ethane, propane and butanes decreased with depth in the bottom sediments. Ratios of were high (250–620) in the anoxic mixolimnion, decreased to ~161 in the monimolimnion and increased with depth in the sediment to values as high as 1736. We concluded that methane has a biogenic origin in both the sediments and the anoxic water column and that C2-C4 alkanes have biogenic origins in the monimolimnion water and shallow sediments. The changes observed in δ13C[CH4] and with depth in the water column and sediments are probably caused by bacteria] processes. These might include anaerobic methane oxidation and different rates of methanogenesis and C2 to C4 alkane production by microorganisms. 相似文献
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A study was undertaken with the thermophilic green alga Cyanidium caldarium which grows optimally at low pH and high concentrations of CO2. Carbon-isotope fractionation was not found to be a simple linear function of temperature. Maximum enrichment of 12C in cellular material occurred under optimum growth conditions (at approximately pH 2 and at temperatures between 40–50°C in a CO2 atmosphere). A maximum measured fractionation of ?24‰ may account for low values () in Precambrian kerogen presumably derived from algal mats. 相似文献
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The fractionation factors () for the reduction of CO2 to CH4 by pure cultures of methane-producing bacteria are, for Methanosarcina barkeri at 40°C, 1.045 ± 0.002; for Methanobacterium strain M.o.H. at 40°C, 1.061 ± 0.002; and, for Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum at 65°C, 1.025 ± 0.002. These observations suggest that the acetic acid used by acetate dissimilating bacteria, if they play an important role in natural methane production, must have an intramolecular isotopic fractionation () approximating the observed fractionation. 相似文献
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The chemical composition of gas mixtures emerging in thermal areas can be used to evaluate the deep thermal temperatures. Chemical analyses of the gas compositions for 34 thermal systems were considered and an empirical relationship developed between the relative concentrations of H2S, H2, CH4 and CO2 and the reservoir temperature. The evaluated temperatures can be expressed by: where (concentrations in % by volume) and β = 7 logPco2 相似文献
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Water samples collected from a slope station and two deep stations in the western basin of the Black Sea were analyzed for stenols and stanols by glass capillary gas chromatography. These results were used in conjuction with hydrographic, particulate organic carbon, and chlorophyll a data to better understand sterol sources and their transport and transformation mechanisms in anoxic basins.The total free sterol concentrations found in the surface waters were 450–500 ng/l dropping rapidly to values well below 100 ng/l at depths below the interface. In the upper 200 m of the water column a strong association of sterols with particulate matter is suggested. Structural elucidation by a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer-computer system revealed the presence of at least sixteen different stenols and stanols in the surface waters of the Black Sea. Cholesterol, 24-methylenecholesterol and 24-methylcholesta-5,22-dien-3β-ol were the major sterols in the surface waters. Cholesterol and 24-ethylcholesterol both exhibited a subsurface maximum at the interface. In the anoxic deep waters (200–2000 m) only cholesterol and 24-ethylcholesterol were found. Two stenols were found that have not been reported in seawater: a C26 stenol with a saturated C7H15 side chain (presumably 24-norcholesterol) and 24-ketocholesterol. At least six 5α-stanols could be identified in the surface samples, each of them comprising about 10–20% of the concentration of the corresponding Δ5-stenol. From these comparatively high surface values the stanol concentrations drop rapidly to values near zero at the interface. Except for very low concentrations of 5α-cholestanol (< 4ng/l) no other stanols could be detected in the anoxic zone.From this data it appears that no detectable stenol → stanol conversion is occurring at the interface or in the deep anoxic waters of the Black Sea. 相似文献
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Equations are developed for calculating the density of aluminosilicate liquids as a function of composition and temperature. The mean molar volume at reference temperature Tr, is given by , where the summation is taken over all oxide components except A12O3, X stands for mole fraction, terms are constants derived independently from an analysis of volume-composition relations in alumina-free silicate liquids, and is the composition-dependent apparent partial molar volume of Al2O3. The thermal expansion coefficient of aluminosilicate liquids is given by , where terms are constants independent of temperature and composition, and is a composition-dependent term representing the effect of Al2O3 on the thermal expansion. Parameters necessary to calculate the volume of silicate liquids at any temperature T according to V(T) = Vrexp[α(T-Tr)], where Tr = 1400°C have been evaluated by least-square analysis of selected density measurements in aluminosilicate melts. Mean molar volumes of aluminosilicate liquids calculated according to the model equation conform to experimentally measured volumes with a root mean square difference of 0.28 and an average absolute difference of 0.90% for 248 experimental observations. The compositional dependence of is discussed in terms of several possible interpretations of the structural role of Al3+ in aluminosilicate melts. 相似文献
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Art F White 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1977,41(5):613-625
The coprecipitation of Na and K was experimentally investigated in aragonite. The distribution functions were determined at pH 6.8 and 8.8 over aqueous Na and K concentrations of between 5 × 10?4and 2.0 M and temperatures of between 25 and 75°C.The mole fractions of Na and K in aragonite are related to the aqueous ratios of Na and Ca by a function of the form where C0 and C1 are constants at a given temperature. This equation was derived by a statistical model assuming a heterogeneous energy distribution for the sites of incorporation. The independence of the coprecipitation process from aqueous anion activities suggests that carbonate is the only anionic species in the solid solution. 相似文献
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J.R Holloway 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1973,37(3):651-666
The stability of the amphibole pargasite [NaCa2Mg4Al(Al2Si6))O22(OH)2] in the melting range has been determined at total pressures (P) of 1.2 to 8 kbar. The activity of H2O was controlled independently of P by using mixtures of H2O + CO2 in the fluid phase. The mole fraction of H2O in the fluid () ranged from 1.0 to 0.2.At P < 4 kbar the stability temperature (T) of pargasite decreases with decreasing at constant P. Above P ? 4 kbar stability T increases as is decreased below one, passes through a T maximum and then decreases with a further decrease in . This behavior is due to a decrease in the H2O content of the silicate liquid as decreases. The magnitude of the T maximum increases from about 10°C (relative to the stability T for ) at P = 5 kbar to about 30°C at P = 8 kbar, and the position of the maximum shifts from at P = 5 kbar to at P = 8 kbar.The H2O content of liquid coexisting with pargasite has been estimated as a function of at 5 and 8 kbar P, and can be used to estimate the H2O content of magmas. Because pargasite is stable at low values of at high P and T, hornblende can be an important phase in igneous processes even at relatively low H2O fugacities. 相似文献
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The following equation has been previously developed for the drag coefficient of a sphere. In this work the authors propose a power series expansion for C0 in terms of the Reynolds number: A fifth-order polynomial permits obtaining the drag coefficient and the settling velocity of a sphere, up to a Reynolds number of 3 × 105, with an average relative error of about 2%. 相似文献
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The ionization quotients of aqueous carbon dioxide (carbonic acid) have been precisely determined in NaCl media to 5 m and from 50° to 300°C using potentiometric apparatus previously developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The pressure coefficient was also determined to 250°C in the same media. These results have been combined with selected information in the literature and modeled in two ways to arrive at the best fits and to derive the thermodynamic parameters for the ionization reaction, including the equilibrium constant, activity coefficient quotients, and pressure coefficients. The variation with temperature of the two fundamental quantities and were examined along the saturation vapor pressure curve and at constant density. The results demonstrated again that for reactions with minimal electrostriction changes the magnitudes and variations of and with temperature are small and, in addition, and are approximately independent of salt concentration.The results have also been applied to an examination of the solubility of calcite as a function of pH (in a given NaCl medium) for the neutral to acidic region both for systems with fixed CO2 pressure and systems where the calcium ion concentration equals the concentration of carbon. The pH of saturated solutions of calcite with PCO2 of 12 bars increases from 5.1 to 5.5 between 100° and 300°C. 相似文献
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N Guilhaumou P Dhamelincourt J-C Touray J Touret 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1981,45(5):657-673
Optical and analytical studies were performed on 400 N2 + CO2 gas bearing inclusions in dolomites and quartz from Triassic outcrops in northern Tunisia. Other fluids present include brines (NaCl and KCl bearing inclusions) and rare liquid hydrocarbons. At the time of trapping, such fluids were heterogeneous gas + brine mixtures. In hydrocarbon free inclusions the mole ratio was determined using two different non-destructive and punctual techniques: Raman microprobe analysis, and optical estimation of the volume ratios of the different phases selected at low temperatures. In the observed range of compositions, the two methods agree reasonably well.The N2 + CO2 inclusions are divided into three classes of composition: (a) : Liquid nitrogen is always visible at very low temperature and homogenisation occurs in the range ?151°C to ? 147°C (nitrogen critical temperature) dry ice (solid CO2) sublimates between ?75°C and ?60°C; (b) : liquid nitrogen is visible at very low temperature but dry ice melts on heating; liquid and gas CO2 homogenise to liquid phase between ?51°C to ?22°C; (c) : liquid nitrogen is not visible even at very low temperature (?195°C) and liquid and gas CO2 homogenise to liquid phase between ?22°C and ?15°C. The observed phases changes are used to propose a preliminary phase diagram for the system CO2-N2 at low temperatures.Assuming additivity of partial pressures, isochores for the CO2-N2 inclusions have been computed. The intersection of these isochores with those for brine inclusions in the same samples may give the P and T of trapping of the fluids. 相似文献
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Experimental quartz solubilities in H2O (Anderson and Burnham, 1965, 1967) were used together with equations of state for quartz and aqueous species (Helgesonet al., 1978; Walther and Helgeson, 1977) to calculate the dielectric constant of H2O () at pressures and temperatures greater than those for which experimental measurements (Heger, 1969; Lukashovet al., 1975) are available ( and ). Estimates of computed in this way for 2 kb (which are the most reliable) range from 9.6 at 600°C to 5.6 at 800°C. These values are 0.5 and 0.8 units greater, respectively, than corresponding values estimated by Quist and Marshall (1965), but they differ by <0.3 units from extrapolated values computed from Pitzer's (1983) adaptation of the Kirkwood (1939) equation. The estimates of generated from quartz solubilities at 2 kb were fit with a power function of temperature, which was then used together with equations and data given by Helgeson and Kirkham (1974a,b, 1976) Helgesonet al. (1981), and Helgeson (1982b, 1984) to calculate Born functions, Debye Hückel parameters, and the thermodynamic properties of Na+, K+, Mg++, Ca++, and other aqueous species of geologic interest at temperatures to 900°C. 相似文献
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Stable carbon isotope fractionation by seventeen species of marine phytoplankton, representing the classes of Bacillariophyceae, Chlorophyceae, Prasinophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Haptophyceae and Dinophyceae have been determined in laboratory culture experiments using bicarbonate enriched artificial sea water. The values (ΔHCO3? = δ13C of algae vs HCO3?) range from ?22.1 to ?35.5%. Nitzschia closterium shows the smallest fractionation of ? 22.1% and Isochrysis galbana, the greatest of ?35.5%,. Since these algae were cultured under identical laboratory conditions, the wide range of ΔHCO3? values is seemingly due to the presence of different metabolic pathways within these organisms.A temperature dependent fractionation of 0.36% per °C with decreasing temperatures was measured for Skeletonema costatum whereas, smaller temperature dependencies of ?0.13, +0.15 and ?0.07%. per °C were observed for Dunaliella sp., Monochrysis lutheri and Glenodinium foliaceum, respectively.The consistency of values of Skeletonema costatum, Dunaliella sp. and Monochrysis lutheri grown at salinities of 22, 26, 32 and 36% indicates that natural salinity variations have negligible effects on the isotopic composition of marine phytoplankton. 相似文献
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Denis A Wiesenburg James M Brooks Bernie B Bernard 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1985,49(10):2069-2080
The composition of light hydrocarbon gases in the Orca Basin, an anoxic, hypersaline intraslope depression on the continental slope of the northern Gulf of Mexico, indicates that both methane and ethane are biogenic in nature with a ratio of 730 and a δ13C of methane of ?73%. relative to the PDB standard. The concentrations of methane (750 mM) and ethane (1300 mM) in the Orca Basin brine are higher than any other marine anoxic basin. These high levels result not from high rates of productivity, but from the long residence time of the brine in the basin, due to its high stability toward mixing with overlying seawater (). Both methane and ethane show well mixed distributions in the brine. These distributions probably result from convective mixing of the isohaline brine pool due to normal heat flow from the basin sediments. Methane and ethane maxima above the pycnocline at the brine/seawater interface reflect in situ production and/or consumption in the aerobic water column. Concurrent maxima in suspended particulate material distributions in this region suggest methane may be produced there in anaerobic microenvironments associated with the suspended matter. Reduced rates of anaerobic decomposition (including sulfate reduction) in the brine sediments are inferred from preserved Sargassum fronds in the sediments, vertical sulfate profiles in most cores, and the sediment organic carbon content which is two to three times higher in sediments below the high salinity brine than in the normal Gulf sediments nearby. 相似文献