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Estimation of carbonate, total organic carbon, and biogenic silica content by FTIR and XRF techniques in lacustrine sediments |
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| Authors: | Xiuju Liu Steven M Colman Erik T Brown Elizabeth C Minor Hongyu Li |
| Institution: | 1. Large Lakes Observatory, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, 55812, USA 2. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA 3. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, 55812, USA 4. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, 55812, USA 5. Water Resources Science Program, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, 55812, USA |
| Abstract: | Major components of lacustrine sediments, such as carbonates, organic matter, and biogenic silica, provide significant paleoenvironmental information about lake systems. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and scanning X-ray fluorescence (XRF) techniques are fast, cost effective, efficient methods to determine the relative abundances of these components. We investigate the potential of these techniques using sediments from two large lakes, Lake Malawi in Africa and Lake Qinghai in China. Our results show statistically significant correlations of conventionally measured concentrations of carbonate (%CaCO3), total organic carbon (%TOC), and biogenic silica (%BSi), with absorbance in the corresponding FTIR spectral regions and with XRF elemental ratios including calcium:titanium (Ca/Ti), incoherent:coherent X-ray scatter intensities (Inc/Coh), and silicon:titanium (Si/Ti), respectively. The correlation coefficients (R) range from 0.66 to 0.96 for comparisons of FTIR results and conventional measurements, and from 0.70 to 0.90 for XRF results and conventional measurements. Both FTIR and XRF techniques exhibit great potential for rapid assessment of inorganic and organic contents of lacustrine sediments. However, the relationship between XRF-ratios or FTIR-absorbances and abundances of corresponding sedimentary components can vary with sediment source and lithology. |
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