Dissertations / Theses: 'REE geochemistry'

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Zhong, Shaojun. "Precipitation kinetics and partitioning of rare earth elements (REE) between calcite and seawater." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=41198.

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A novel and simple "constant-addition" technique was used to study calcite precipitation kinetics and the partitioning of REE between calcite overgrowths and their parent seawater solutions under steady state conditions.
As a consequence of solute interactions in solution and at the growing mineral surface, the calcite precipitation mechanism in seawater is complex. It is dominated by the following reversible overall reaction: $ rm Ca sp{2+}+CO sbsp{3}{2-} rightleftharpoons CaCO sb3.$ A kinetic expression is proposed which describes the precipitation rate according to this reaction. A partial reaction order of 3 with respect to CO$ sb3 sp{2-}$ is obtained.
REE have a strong affinity for calcite and substitute for Ca$ sp{2+}$. REE partition coefficients in calcite overgrowths were calculated from their concentrations in the overgrowths and their parent solutions using a non-thermodynamic homogeneous model. The concentrations were determined by chelation and gradient ion chromatography (CGIC) using a revised procedure. REE partition coefficients decrease gradually with increasing REE atomic number. They are sensitive to changes in (REE): (Ca$ sp{2+}$) and the presence of O$ sb2$ in solution, but unaffected by the precipitation rate, $ rm lbrack CO sb3 sp{2-} rbrack$ or Pco$ sb2$ of the solution. The partitioning behaviour of REE is negatively correlated to the solubility of their respective carbonates and influenced by speciation, adsorption, and subsequent surface reactions (e.g., dehydration).

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Ramirez-Caro, Daniel. "Rare earth elements (REE) as geochemical clues to reconstruct hydrocarbon generation history." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/16871.

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Master of Science
Department of Geology
Matthew Totten
The REE distribution patterns and total concentrations of the organic matter of the Woodford shale reveal a potential avenue to investigate hydrocarbon maturation processes in a source rock. Ten samples of the organic matter fraction and 10 samples of the silicate-carbonate fraction of the Woodford shale from north central Oklahoma were analyzed by methods developed at KSU. Thirteen oil samples from Woodford Devonian oil and Mississippian oil samples were analyzed for REE also. REE concentration levels in an average shale range from 170 ppm to 185 ppm, and concentration levels in modern day plants occur in the ppb levels. The REE concentrations in the organic matter of the Woodford Shale samples analyzed ranged from 300 to 800 ppm. The high concentrations of the REEs in the Woodford Shale, as compared to the modern-day plants, are reflections of the transformations of buried Woodford Shale organic materials in post-depositional environmental conditions with potential contributions of exchanges of REE coming from associated sediments. The distribution patterns of REEs in the organic materials normalized to PAAS (post-Archean Australian Shale) had the following significant features: (1) all but two out of the ten samples had a La-Lu trend with HREE enrichment in general, (2) all but two samples showed Ho and Tm positive enrichments, (3) only one sample had positive Eu anomalies, (4) three samples had Ce negative anomalies, although one was with a positive Ce anomaly, (5) all but three out of ten had MREE enrichment by varied degrees. It is hypothesized that Ho and Tm positive anomalies in the organic materials of the Woodford Shale are reflections of enzymic influence related to the plant physiology. Similar arguments may be made for the Eu and the Ce anomalies in the Woodford Shale organic materials. The varied MREE enrichments are likely to have been related to some phosphate mineralization events, as the Woodford Shale is well known for having abundant presence of phosphate nodules. The trend of HREE enrichment in general for the Woodford Shale organic materials can be related to inheritance from sources with REE-complexes stabilized by interaction between the metals and carbonate ligands or carboxylate ligands or both. Therefore, a reasonable suggestion about the history of the REEs in the organic materials would be that both source and burial transformation effects of the deposited organic materials in association with the inorganic constituents had an influence on the general trend and the specific trends in the distribution patterns of the REEs. This study provides a valuable insight into the understandings of the REE landscapes in the organic fraction of the Woodford Shale in northern Oklahoma, linking these understandings to the REE analysis of an oil generated from the same source bed and comparing it to oil produced from younger Mississippian oil. The information gathered from this study may ultimately prove useful to trace the chemical history of oils generated from the Woodford Shale source beds.

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Sahlström, Fredrik. "Ore Petrography and Geochemistry of some REE-bearing Fe-oxide Assemblages from the Idkerberget Deposit, Bergslagen, Sweden." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-182875.

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The mine dumps of Kiruna-type apatite-iron oxide ore in Bergslagen, South Central Sweden, contain elevated amounts of rare earth elements (REEs). A recently started project at Uppsala University has been initiated to study these ores among others in order to document occurrences of REEs and other critical elements in the mine dumps. In this study a selection of samples from the Idkerberget deposit have been studied with respect to their geochemistry and petrography with a special focus on REE-bearing phases. In addition, their mining potential and their relationship to related ore deposits such as Blötberget, Grängesberg and Kiirunavaara have been considered. The bulk geochemistry of the ores was analyzed using ICP-ES and ICP-MS. Polished sections of the ore samples were studied using ore microscopy, SEM-EDS and WDS microprobe technique. The results indicate that the ores consist mainly of magnetite and hematite, with minor silicates, flourapatite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, monazite-(Ce), allanite-(Ce), thorium silicate, titanite and zircon. Most REEs were originally hosted in flourapatite, but metamorphic and/or hydrothermal overprinting has resulted in complex textures and neomineralisation involving exotic REE-bearing minerals such as monazite-(Ce), allanite-(Ce) and secondary flourapatite. These features have also been observed in the related ore deposits nearby. The ores are enriched in REEs by factors between 1 and 9 compared to crustal values, with LREEs being the most enriched. These enrichments are rather low compared to other REE-ores currently being mined, but the easy access to the ores could mean that mining can be profitable with the current demand of these commodities.
Varphögar av apatitjärnmalm av Kirunatyp ifrån järnmalmsbrytning i Bergslagen, Sydcentrala Sverige, innehåller förhöjda halter av sällsynta jordartsmetaller. Ett projekt vid Uppsala Universitet undersöker förekomster av sällsynta jordartsmetaller och andra kritiska element i varphögar bland annat från apatitjärnmalmer. I denna studie har prover från ett av Bergslagens apatitjärnmalmsfält, Idkerberget, undersökts geokemiskt och petrografiskt med fokus på faser som innehåller sällsynta jordartsmetaller. Deras utvinningspotential och deras relation till liknande förekomster såsom Blötberget, Grängesberg samt Kiirunavaara har också tagits i beaktning. Bulkgeokemin i proverna analyserades med ICP-EM och ICP-MS. Polerprov av malmerna undersöktes medelst optisk mikroskopi, SEM-EDS samt med WDS-mikrosondteknik. Resultaten visar att malmerna framförallt består av magnetit och hematit, med mindre mängder silikater, flourapatit, pyrit, kopparkis, monazit-(Ce), allanit-(Ce), thoriumsilikat, titanit och zirkon. Sällsynta jordartsmetaller är i huvudsak bundna i flourapatit, men metamorfa och/eller hydrotermala processer har resulterat i nybildningen av exotiska mineral såsom monazit-(Ce), allanit-(Ce), och sekundär flourapatit. Dessa egenskaper har även observerats i apatitjärnmalmer från andra platser. Proverna från Idkerberget har 1-9 gånger högre koncentration av sällsynta jordartsmetaller än jordskorpan generellt, och lätta sällsynta jordartsmetaller är de mest anrikade. Dessa halter är relativt låga jämfört med sällsynta jordartsmalmer som bryts i dagsläget, men eftersom materialet förekommer i enorma varphögar gör tillgängligheten att metallerna ändå kan utvinnas med vinst om efterfrågan på denna resurs består.

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Aiglsperger, Thomas Hans. "Mineralogy and geochemistry of the platinum group elements (PGE), rare earth elements (REE) and scandium in nickel laterites." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/396340.

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Ni laterites are considered worthy targets for critical metals (CM) exploration as rare earth elements (REE), Sc and platinum group elements (PGE) can be concentrated during weathering as a result of residual and secondary enrichment. In this investigation geochemical and mineralogical data of CM from two different nickel laterite types (i) from the Moa Bay mining area in Cuba (oxide type) and (ii) from the Falcondo mining area in the Dominican Republic (hydrous Mg silicate type) are presented. Emphasis is given on examining their potential to accumulate CM and on processes involved. Results show that CM are concentrated towards the surface in specific zones: (i) REE in clay minerals rich horizons and within zones composed of secondary Mn oxide(s) (ii) Sc within zones rich in secondary Fe and Mn bearing oxide(s) and (iii) PGE in zones with high concentrations of residual chromian spinel and secondary Fe and Mn bearing oxide(s) at upper levels of the Ni laterite profiles. Concentration factors involve (i) residual enrichment by intense weathering (ii) mobilization of CM during changing Eh and pH conditions with subsequent reprecipitation at favourable geochemical barriers (iii) interactions between biosphere and limonitic soils at highest levels of the profile (critical zone) with involved neoformation processes. Total contents of CM in both Ni laterite types are low when compared with conventional CM ore deposits but are of economic significance as CM have to be seen as cost inexpensive by-products during the Ni (+Co) production. Innovative extraction methods currently under development are believed to boost the significance of Ni laterites as future unconventional CM ore deposits. Two Ni laterite profiles from the Falcondo mining area have been compared for their platinum group element (PGE) geochemistry and mineralogy. One profile (Loma Peguera) is characterized by PGE-enriched (up to 3.5 ppm total PGE) chromitite bodies incorporated within the saprolite, whereas the second profile is chromitite-free (Loma Caribe). Total PGE contents of both profiles slightly increase from parent rocks (36 and 30 ppb, respectively) to saprolite (-50 ppb) and reach highest levels within the limonite zone (640 and 264 ppb, respectively). Chondrite-normalized PGE patterns of saprolite and limonite reveal rather flat shapes with positive peaks of Ru and Pd. Three types of platinum group minerals (PGM) were found by using an innovative hydroseparation technique: (i) primary PGM inclusions in fresh Cr-spinel (laurite and bowieite), (ii) secondary PGM (e.g., Ru-Fe-Os-Ir compounds) from weathering of preexisting PGM (e.g., serpentinization and/or laterization), and (iii) PGM precipitated after PGE mobilization within the laterite (neoformation). Results provide evidence that (i) PGM occurrence and PGE enrichment in the laterite profiles is independent of chromitite incorporation; (ii) PGE enrichment is residual on the profile scale; and (iii) PGE are mobile on a local scale leading to in situ growth of PGM within limonite, probably by bioreduction and/or electrochemical metal accretion. Free grains of PGM with delicate morphologies were discovered in limonite hosted chromitite samples (“floating chromitites”) from highest levels in the Falcondo Ni laterite deposit (Dominican Republic). Textural and chemical evidence obtained via SEM and EMP analysis points to a multistage formation: (i) primary PGM formation at magmatic stage; (ii) transformation to highly porous secondary Os-Ru PGM during serpentinization; (iii) neoformation of Ir-Fe-Ni-(Pt) mineral phases during early stages of lateritization; (iv) neoformation of Pt-(Ir) mineral phases within the critical zone of the profile resulting in nugget shaped accumulation of rounded particulates during late stages of lateritization. The observation of accumulations of most likely biogenic mediated in situ growth of Pt rich nanoparticles in supergene environments could help to explain (i) why Pt bearing nuggets are the most abundant PGM found in surface environments, (ii) why Pt nuggets from placer deposits generally surpass the grain sizes of Pt grains found in parent rocks by several orders of magnitude (few micrometers vs. several millimeters) and (iii) how anthropogenic PGE contamination may affect our biosphere. Osmium chromitite, saprolite and limonite (Falcondo mining area), suggest that serpentinization of the Loma Caribe peridotite has not significantly affected the Re-Os system in Os-rich PGM. This is noted by the fact, that primary PGM formed at magmatic stage and secondary Ru-Os-Mg- isotope characteristics from primary and secondary PGM, separated from Si PGM formed due desulphurization of primary PGM with significant incorporation of Mg silicates, have almost identical Os isotope characteristics, typical of the mantle. However, the Re-Os system can be significantly disturbed during stages of lateritization when porous secondary PGM react with Fe-rich fluids, thus forming hexaferrum and magnetite in the 187 188 interstices of secondary PGM. Here presented data indicate that more radiogenic ratios in higher levels of the weathering profile are linked to steady mobilization of PGE within secondary PGM resulting in subsequent loss of Os counterbalanced by the incorporation of Fe. Os/ Os In this investigation presented data clearly states that PGE are neither noble nor inert in surface environments, at least in those related to tropical Ni laterites from the Northern Caribbean.

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Inguaggiato, Claudio. "Geochemistry of Zr, Hf and REE in extreme water environments : hyperacid, hypersaline and lake waters in hydrothermal systems." Thesis, Paris 6, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA066007/document.

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Cette thèse de doctorat traite du comportement géochimique de Zr, Hf et Terres Rares dans des environnements aqueux extrêmes. Les études ont été effectuées dans les eaux hyper-salines long de la faille de la Mer Morte (Israël), les eaux hyper-acides dans le système volcanique hydrothermal du Nevado del Ruiz (Colombie) et les eaux riches en CO2 du système volcanique hydrothermal de l'île de Pantelleria, en comprenant le lac alcalin “Specchio di Venere”. Haute appauvrissement en Terres Rares légères a été trouvé dans les eaux acides dominées par le sulfate où on a reconnu la formation d’alunite et jarosite. Certaines eaux long de la faille de la Mer Morte montrent des enrichissements en Terres Rares intermédiaires, causés par la dissolution des minéraux évaporitiques. Les grandes variations redox et de pH observées dans ces systèmes hydrothermaux sont la cause des anomalies de Eu et Ce. Les eaux sulfates acides (1 < pH < 3.6) se caractérisent par des relations de Zr/Hf sous-condritiques et des relations condritiques de Y/Ho. Les rapports de Zr/Hf augment à l'augmentation du rapport Cl/SO4 en suggérant un comportement différent de Zr et Hf. Contrairement aux eaux acides, les relations de Y/Ho et Zr/Hf dans les eaux proches de la neutralité avec valeurs de Eh positives augmentent vers des valeurs super-condritiques, en raison de l'élimination préférentielle par les oxyhydroxydes de fer, de l'Hf et Ho que de Zr et Y. Le distribution des Terres Rares, avec les rapports de Y/Ho et Zr/Hf du “Specchio di Venere” montrent l’interaction entre les particules atmosphériques qui viennent du désert du Sahara et le lac “Specchio di Venere”, démontrent qu’ils sont de traceurs géochimiques
This thesis concerns the geochemistry of Zr, Hf and REE (Rare Earth Elements) in extreme water environments. The investigations were carried out in hypersaline waters covering a wide range of Eh values along Dead Sea Fault (Israel), in hyperacid waters circulating in Nevado del Ruiz volcano-hydrothermal system (Colombia) and in CO2-rich waters in Pantelleria volcano-hydrothermal system (Italy), including the alkaline lake “Specchio di Venere” within a calderic depression. The acidic sulphates waters characterized by the precipitation of alunite and jarosite show a strong LREE depletion. The REE in waters along Dead Sea Fault show MREE enrichments in waters with relative high Ca and SO4 concentrations due to the water interaction with MREE-enriched salt minerals. In the natural waters, changing of pH and Eh induce variations of Ce and Eu anomalies, due to the different behaviour of these elements with respect to the neighbours REE. In sulphate acidic waters, Zr/Hf ratios are very low down to 4.7, while quite constant Y/Ho ratio (close to the local rock value) indicates the lack of decoupling. Zr/Hf ratio increases as Cl/SO4 ratio increases. On the contrary, Zr/Hf and Y/Ho ratios in near-neutral pH waters with positive Eh values change from near-chondritic to super-chondritic. The precipitation of Fe-oxyhydroxides removes preferentially Hf and Ho with respect to Zr and Y. The interaction of atmospheric fallout from the nearby Sahara Desert with the water of the lake “Specchio di Venere” was recognized by the Zr, Hf and REE distribution. Zr, Hf and REE show the capability to trace the interaction process between open water bodies and atmospheric fallout

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Baldwin, Geoffrey James. "THE STRATIGRAPHY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE RAPITAN IRON FORMATION, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES AND YUKON, CANADA." Thesis, Laurentian University of Sudbury, 2014. https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/dspace/handle/10219/2194.

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The Neoproterozoic was a time of major change in Earth’s surficial history, including a major rise in atmospheric oxygen, the first appearance of complex metazoan life, and a series of worldwide glaciations. A particular interesting element of these so called “snowball Earth” glacial deposits is the presence of iron formation, a distinctive Precambrian rock type that is largely absent from the post-Paleoproterozoic record. Despite being relatively poorly studied with respect to their geochemistry and sedimentology, Neoproterozoic iron formations are used to support many models for the record of oxygen concentrations of the Earth. The classical example of Neoproterozoic iron formation is the Rapitan iron formation of northwestern Canada. This hematite-jasper iron formation is associated with glaciogenic turbidites and diamictites. Despite being the archetype, the Rapitan iron formation has not been studied in the context of recent ideas about the Neoproterozoic. In this thesis, the stratigraphy, geochemistry, and basin architecture of the Rapitan iron formation are reassessed. Using the REE+Y and the redox-sensitive elements Mo and U, it is shown that the Rapitan iron formation was deposited in a partially restricted basin from biogenically reduced iron under variable redox conditions. Elemental Re and Mo isotopes further show that although oxic and ferruginous conditions predominated during deposition of the iron formation, a transition towards a sulfidic water column locally terminated deposition. Finally, regional stratigraphy and geochemistry show that the iron formation was preferentially deposited in deep, newly formed basins that were protected from significant siliciclastic sedimentation. These basins were delimited by inferred crustal-scale faults trending roughly perpendicular to the axis of the rift basin, and allowed significant changes in thickness and sedimentological character over short distances along strike. These factors help build an overall geotectonic regime under which Neoproterozoic iron formations were deposited: young, deep rift basins that had undergone marine incursion, and were intermittently sealed by an ice shelf, allowing for the generation of an anoxic, iron-rich water column. The absence of the Eu anomaly and the heavy Mo isotopic signature indicate that the open ocean was fully oxygenated at the time of Rapitan iron formation deposition, as opposed to ferruginous as previously suggested.

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Vanderstraeten, Aubry. "Advances in geochemical tracing of atmospheric dust in Antarctica." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/312773.

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AbstractAtmospheric dust is a major component of the Earth System. The optical properties of dust and their roles in cloud nucleation processes have a major impact on Earth’s radiative budget and hydrological cycle. Dusts also take part in many biogeochemical cycles in surface waters of the oceans and on land through their capacity to supply key micronutrients (e.g. Fe, P) sustaining primary production. The aim of this thesis is to improve the understanding of dust cycle by creating new and innovative methods allowing to trace the source regions of dust and quantify their respective contributions. We developed a chromatographic method to isolate and analyze six isotopic systems (i.e. Pb, Nd, Sr, Zn, Cu, Fe) widely used to trace dust source areas. We optimized a new method for single, low-mass dust samples and, in doing so, we observed that the usual rock reference materials (RM) used to calibrate isotopic analysis were not representative of dust. In fact, there is little to no RM for dust and therefore, we set out to characterize precisely the isotopic signatures of two new dust reference materials, ATD and BCR-723. The latter two are representative of natural-like and urban-like dust that we propose now as new standards for atmospheric dust studies. We also investigated dust deposition, along a 250-km transect from the NE Antarctic coastline to the Princess Elisabeth Station area. Using dust samples collected from Sigma-2 passive samplers or isolated from snow samples, we determined the morphology, size distribution and chemical composition of the dust samples at the particle-scale using an automated Scanning Electron Microscope coupled to Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (SEM-EDS). More than 5500 particles were analysed and the results showed that the grain-size distribution was <5 μm. We also observe difference in mineralogy at the coast compared to the inland section of our transect: dominance of quartz and aluminosilicates at the coast and of Fe-Mg silicates near the Sør Rondane. Based on this discrepancy, we interpret the ‘coastal’ dust samples to come from distal source while Fe-Mg silicate rich samples were hypothesized to originate from the nearby Sør Rondane range. To trace the source of those dust samples, we analysed their REE content and developed a whole new statistical approach to trace and quantify their source(s). The idea is to correlate systematically the REE pattern of those samples with, not only, PSA REE pattern from distal and local rocks but also with all their possible mixing combinations. To do so, we used the correlation coefficient (R), Akaike and Bayesian Information Criterion (AIC-BIC) to determine whether a dust sample traces a single or a mixture of multiple PSAs. Using this numerical method, we determined that local inputs of dust from the Sør Rondane mountains dominate the inland-most section of the 250-km transect. In contrast, coastal sampling sites (up to 50 km inland) are influenced by dust coming from Puna-Altiplano, Patagonia and Southern Africa. As such, this work presents the first unambiguous geochemical evidence that Southern African dust reach North East Antarctic coast. Finally, we also revisited the REE-dataset measured in EPICA Dome-C (EDC, Gabrielli et al. [Quaternary Science Reviews 29 (2010) 265-273]) and EPICA Dronning Maud Land (EDML, Wegner et al. [Climate of the Past 8 (2012) 135-147]) ice cores in order to reconstruct the dust provenance over the last glacial-interglacial interval. Our results showed that,during the Last Glacial Maximum (before 18 kyr BP), dust in both ice cores was predominantly coming from New-Zealand (NZ) with secondary inputs from South-Central Western Argentina (S-CWA) and Patagonia. The glacial-interglacial transition (18-11.6 kyr BP) saw the decline of NZ and S-CWA inputs and the increase of contributions from Patagonia, Southern Africa and Puna Altiplano. The Holocene (after 11.7 kyr BP) is marked by dust inputs coming from Patagonia, Southern Africa and Puna Altiplano while NZ stabilized to a secondary level and S-CWA ceased to supply dust. We demonstrated that variations and relative contributions recorded in ice cores are all related to important climatic changes in source regions having an impact on their capacity to supply dust. Our REE statistical approach provide an unprecedented way to identify and quantify the dust source regions in Antarctic ice core and in doing shed new light of those ‘iconic’ archives of Earth’s climate and atmospheric circulation.
RésuméLes particules atmosphériques (PA) sont un composant majeur du système Terre. Leurs propriétés optiques ainsi que leur rôle au sein des processus de nucléation des nuages ont des impacts majeurs sur le budget radiatif et hydrologique de la terre. Les PA interviennent aussi dans de nombreux cycles biogéochimiques à la surface des océans ou sur terre grâce à leur capacité à fournir des nutriments clés (e.g. Fe, P) soutenant la production primaire. Le but de ce doctorat est d’améliorer la compréhension du cycle des PA en créant de nouvelles méthodes innovatrices permettant de tracer leurs origines et quantifier leurs contributions. Nous avons développé une nouvelle méthode chromatographique optimisée pour les PA afin d’analyser six systèmes isotopiques (i.e. Pb, Nd, Sr, Zn, Cu, Fe) largement utilisés pour tracer l’origine des PA. Afin de combler un manque crucial en terme de matériaux de référence (MR), nous avons quantifié deux nouveaux MR de PA, ATD et BCR-723 (représentatifs des milieux naturels et urbains) et nous les proposons pour toutes les futures études géochimiques de PA. Nous avons aussi étudié les dépositions atmosphériques le long d’un ‘transect’ de 250 km depuis la côte Antarctique jusqu’à la station Belge Princesse Elisabeth. Premièrement, nous avons réalisé des analyses morphologiques et chimiques à l’échelle de la particule à l’aide d’un Microscope Electronique à Balayage à dispersion d’énergie (MEB-EDS). Les analyses ont montré une distribution granulométrique <5 μm ainsi qu’une variation de composition chimique (i.e. minéralogie) depuis la côte jusqu’aux Sør Rondane. Deuxièmement, afin de mieux identifier l’origine de ces PA, nous avons analysé les terres rares (REE) et développé dans son intégralité une nouvelle approche statistique permettant d’identifier les sources ainsi que leurs contributions relatives. Grâce à cela, nous avons déterminé que les échantillons à la côte proviennent du Puna-Altiplano, de Patagonie et du Sud de l’Afrique (SAF). C’est la première fois que des apports du SAF sont formellement identifiés en Antarctique. Finalement, nous avons revisité les data-set de REE des carottes de glace du projet EPICA (EDC et EDML) afin de reconstruire les apports de PA durant la dernière transition glacière/interglaciaire. Nos résultats ont montré que durant la dernière période glaciaire les PA proviennent principalement de Nouvelle-Zélande (NZ) avec des apports secondaires provenant de la partie Sud du centre de l’Ouest Argentin ainsi que de Patagonie. Une transition est marquée entre 18 et 11.6 ka BP jusqu’à un équilibre dès l’Holocène (après 11.7 ka BP) marqué par des apports de sources variées venant de Patagonie, SAF, Puna-Altiplano et NZ. Nous avons aussi démontré que les variations des contributions relatives de sources enregistrées dans les carottes de glaces sont toutes en relation avec des changements climatiques importants au niveau des régions sources impactant leur capacité à générer des PA. Notre approche statistique exploitant les REE apporte une méthode sans précédent pour identifier et quantifier les sources de PA des carottes de glace d’Antarctique et ouvre de nouvelles opportunités sur ces archives du climat et de la circulation atmosphérique de la Terre.
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Tourpin, Sylvie. "Perte des mémoires isotopiques (Nd, Sr, 0) et géochimiques (REE) primaires des komatiites au cours du métamorphisme : Exemple de la Finlande Orientale." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 1, 1991. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00675899.

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Les komatiites ont souvent été considérées comme reflétant directement les compositions chimiques et isotopiques de leurs sources mantelliques. Cependant, l'utilisation de ces roches pour reconstituer la composition du manteau archéen apparaît abusive du fait que les komatiites montrent toutes des recristallisations métamorphiques, ce qui laisse subsister un doute profond quant à la préservation de leurs caractéristiques primaires. La possibilité d'une modification profonde des signatures isotopiques ainsi que des autres caractéristiques chimiques (incluant des éléments réputés immobiles, tels que les Terres Rares) a été démontrée à partir des coulées komatiitiques à textures spinifex de la ceinture de roches vertes de Kuhmo-Tipasjarvi (Finlande) dont l'âge est de 2.66 Ga. Ces coulées ont subi un métamorphisme dans le faciès amphibolite de bas degré, parfois accompagné de phénomènes de carbonatation et d'albitisation. Un tel métamorphisme est responsable de nombreuses anomalies dans la distribution des éléments majeurs et en traces (en particulier des Terres Rares). Les échantillons analysés définissent une "isochrone" Sm-Nd donnant un âge beaucoup plus jeune que l'âge réel de mise en place, et qui représente plutôt l'âge des recristallisations métamorphiques. Les rapports Sm-Nd des roches, la géochimie des éléments majeurs et en traces, ainsi que les rapports isotopiques de l'oxygène sont directement corrélés avec les proportions modales de minéraux secondaires. Comme l'âge du métamorphisme (Svécokarélien) est beaucoup plus récent que celui d'emplacement des coulées (900 Ma), la recristallisation a eu des conséquences profondes sur la détermination de eNd et eSr. En conclusion c'est avec énormément de prudence et de suspicion qu'il faut utiliser les méta-komatiites comme des indicateurs "fiables" des caractéristiques isotopiques du manteau archéen.

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Paquette, Jean-Louis. "Comportement des systèmes isotopiques U-Pb et Sm-Nd dans le métamorphisme éclogitique. Chaîne Hercynienne et chaîne Alpine." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 1, 1987. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00675107.

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Les éclogites témoignent, pour la plupart d'entre elles, de l'existence de lambeaux de paléocroûtes océaniques affectées par des conditions tectonométamorphiques très intenses. Ces roches représentent généralement les premiers épisodes de la formation des chaînes de montagne, avant les phénomènes de collision continentale. L'étude géochronologique et géochimique des éclogites est fondamentale car elle apporte d'une part de nombreuses contraintes à la géologie des massifs cristallins étudiés, et permet d'autre part de caractériser le comportement des systèmes isotopiques \ lors d'un métamorphisme de haute grade. - L'ensemble des résultats géochimiques et isotopiques montre que la maiorité des * protolithes des éclogites étudiées provenant du Massif Armoricain (Champtoceaux-Léon) et des massifs externes alpins (Aiguilles Rouges-Belledonne- Argentera) sont comparables aux basaltes de rides' médio-océaniques actuels. - L'étude géochronologique U-Pb sur zircons a révélé une large gamme d'âges de magr:natisme initial de ces métabasites. Les résultats sont divisés - en d eux groupes : les âges précambriens et les âges paléozoiques. Un modèle de faible contamination, ion géochronoches qui propose qu'une très faible contribution crustale introduise une informat logique erronnée sans perturber les caractères géochimiques des roches étudiées, permet d'interpréter la diversité des âges précambriens obtenus. Dans les deux domaines étudiés, le magmatisme océanique d'âge paléozoique a été daté en deux époques distinctes :460-500 Ma et 350-380 Ma. - Le métamorphisme éclogitique est lui -même constitué de plusieurs époques : (1) précoce : 480 Ma, (2) majeur 400-440 Ma et (3) tardif à 350-370 Ma. Ceci permet de proposer la fermeture de plusieurs domaines océaniques et une évolution non-synchrone de l'ensemble de la chaîne Hercynienne. - Dans la chaîne Alpine, les âges obtenus par U-Pb * sur zircons 286 Ma (magmatisme) pour le métagranite éclogitique du Mont Mucrone et 117 Ma (métamorphi ~ me) sur une métaquartzite éclogitique du massif de Dora-Maïra permettent de corréler les âges obtenus avec les conditions P-T du métamorphisme le système U-Pb du granite n'a pas été modifié par le métamorphisme PH-BT, au contraire l'événement HP-HT a été enregistré par les zircons d'un sédiment.

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Martin, Hervé. "Nature, origine et évolution d'un segment de croûte continentale archéenne : contraintes chimiques et isotopiques. Exemple de la Finlande orientale." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 1, 1985. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00655973.

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Le but de ce mémoire est d'aborder le problème de la genèse et de l'évolution de la croate continentale. Le support de terrain ayant servi de base à cette étude est le socle de Finlande orientale dont l'histoire archéenne se déroule sur plus de 500 m.a. L'analyse a été menée en 4 étapes successives : a) une étude de terrain permet de caractériser les matériaux et d'établir leur chronologie relative. b) la radiochronologie (Rb-Sr) précise l'enchainement et la durée des événements géologiques. c) les différents aspects de la genèse de chaque unité lithologique sont envisagés à l'aide de la géochimie des éléments majeurs et en traces. d) les cootraintes géologiques, pétrographiques, géochronologiques, isotopiques et géochimiques servent à établir un modèle d'évolution géodynamique de la croOte archéenne. Parmi les principaux résultats on peut retenir : 1) que la croate continentale archaïque se différencie verticalement par recyclages successifs et acquiert progressivement des caractères modernes. 2) que si la tectonique des plaques existait bien à 1 ~ Archéen, les modalités de détail étaient différentes de celles connues de nos jours. Par exemple lors de la formation d'un rift l'évolution de celui-ci pouvait se faire soit, comme aujourd' hui par océanisation, puis subduction, soit par subsidence (sans océanisation). 3) la composition des granitoïdes formés dans les zones de convergence de plaques s'est modi fiée au cours du temps. Ceci est expliqué par le refroidissement. progressi f de la Terre; à l'Archéen les gradients géothermiques élevés permettaient la fusion de la croate océanique subductée. Aujourd'hui à l'inverse, cette croate subductée est "froide" et se déshydrate avant d'atteindre les conditions de la fusion, favorisant ainsi la fusion partielle du coin de manteau, ou de la base de la croûte continentale sus-jacents.

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Godfrey, Linda Vivien. "Temporal changes in the geochemistry of North Pacific red clays." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359812.

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Haider, A. "Géologie de la formation ferrifère précambrienne et du complexe granulitique encaissant de Buur (Sud de la Somalie) : Implications sur l'évolution crustale du socle de Buur." Phd thesis, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine - INPL, 1989. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00653755.

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Le socle Précambrien du Sud de la Somalie couvre environ 28.000 km 2 . Il forme une pénéplaine située au Nord-Ouest de Mogadisho, la région de Buur. Les affleurements y sont très limités. Ils form ent des inselbergs de gneiss granitiques et le fond de quelques oueds. Environ 98% de la région est ainsi couverte de sédiments détritiques, subactuels de type "red bed". Il faut donc souligner que les données acquises dans le cadre de ce travail sont fondées sur un nombre très limité d'affleurements. Ces affleurements sont constitués 1) d'un complexe de roches méta-ignées et méta-sédimentaires affectées par la migmatisation et 2) d'intrusions granitoides nombreuses. Les métasédiments sont représentés par des quartzites, des marbres, des gneiss calco-silicatés et par une formation ferrifère; cette dernière est un très bon niveau repère à l'échelle régionale. Les données géochimiques indiquent que les roches méta-ignées associées et intercalées dans les métasédiments ont une affinité tholéitique à alcaline quant aux métabasites et calco-alcaline quant aux roches acides et intermédiaires. L'ensemble du complexe est caractérisé par une évolution métamorphique de faciès granulite, suivi par un métamorphisme rétrograde de faciès amphibolite. Ce dernier est accompagné d'une mlgmatisation qui se déroule probablement pendant l'événement Pan-africain. Structuralement, on observe au moins deux phases de plissement. La première * (NW-SE) consiste en des plis isoclinaux serrés qui déforment le litage des couches et probablement synchrones du développement du métamorphisme de faciès granulite. La seconde phase (NE-SW) est représentée par des plis ouverts de grande amplitude. Cette phase de déformation est probablement responsable de la foliation des granitoides. Le complexe granulitique de la région de Buur reprend le matériel d'une zone distensive d'âge probablement Protérozoique inférieur à Archéen. Les phénomènes magmatiques puis métamorphiques observés suggèrent une accrétion crustale. Le chemin P. T. au cours du temps du métamorphisme de faciès granulite montre une évolution en sens inverse des aiguilles d'une montre. De plus, la région étudiée montre une évolution métamorphique et lithostrati graphique qui se rapproche plus de celle du socle de l'Est Gondwana. On notera enfin que le rifting Mésozoique isole la région de Buur du socle africain grâce à des grabens parallèles au système du grand rift de l'Afrique Orientale et au Golfe d'Aden. La région considérée ferait donc la liaison entre la chaîne Mozambicaine et les régions plus orientales de Madagascar, du Dekkan et de Sri - Lanka.

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Hardman, Tristam Samuel. "Microfabrics and geochemistry of Holcene Halimeda bank sediments, northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389393.

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Hibbard, Shannon Maria. "Trace Element Geochemistry of Compositionally Layered Impact Spherules." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/460665.

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Geology
M.S.
Impact spherules are sand-sized spherical particles that have been interpreted to have formed by the cooling, crystallization, and quenching of melt droplets condensed from vapor plumes that are created during large meteor impacts. Spherules may be deposited globally as unique marker beds, such as at the K-Pg boundary. A minimum of 11 spherule beds have been identified in the Archean and Paleoproterozoic, and provide a record of impact events that predate any known craters. This study of 3.24 Ga impact spherules from the S3 spherule layer in the Barberton Greenstone Belt (BGB) in the Kaapvaal Craton of South Africa focuses on the heterogeneity of textures and geochemistry produced during the cooling and crystallization of spherules within a vapor plume. Type 4b spherules are layered phyllosilicate spherules with discrete differences in texture and composition between the inner and outer layer, even after alteration. Compositionally layered phyllosilicate spherules were analyzed using Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) and Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) to measure major, trace, and rare earth element (REE) concentrations. Backscatter Electron (BSE) images and elemental X-ray maps indicate a range of compositional differences between the inner and outer layers of type 4b spherules. The majority of REE plots have nearly flat patterns, with little to no light to heavy REE fractionation; however, the outer layers consistently have higher concentrations, averaging about 10x chondritic, whereas the interiors are at or below chondritic levels with a mid-REE enrichment. The trace and REE patterns of the type 4b spherules are consistent with a more mafic inner layer and a more intermediate outer layer. Mechanisms to produce this layered texture may include: (1) accretion of less mafic material from the plume onto existing melt droplets as the plume continues to fractionate, (2) collision of melt droplets of different viscosities, (3) by differentiation within the melt droplet prior to crystallization, or (4) by diagenetic effects. Based on textures, such as distinct boundaries between layers, and compositional patterns, such as an enrichment of Ti and REE in the outer layer, the data best fits the particle collision formation mechanism hypothesis, which has important implications for impact plume studies, such as plume density, turbulence, temperature, and opacity.
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Evans, Carol Susan. "The Geology, Geochemistry, and Alteration of Red Butte, Oregon: A Precious Metal-Bearing Paleo Hot Spring System." PDXScholar, 1986. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3444.

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Red Butte is located 60 km south of Vale, Oregon, about 20 km west of the Oregon/Idaho border. The butte is within the Owyhee Upland physiographic province of eastern Oregon which lies at the intersection of the Western Snake River Plain, the High Lava Plains, and the Northern Basin and Range provinces. The butte is composed of Miocene to Pliocene lacustrine and fluvial volcaniclastic sediments. The topography of the butte is controlled by silicification of the sandstones and mudstones which cap it. Silicification and hydrothermal alteration are both structurally and stratigraphically controlled. North-trending normal faults dominate the area, and show progressively less offset in younger units. Strong northwest and minor northeast faults also cut the area. Anomalous concentrations of Au, As, Sb, and Hg occur in banded quartz, quartz-adularia veins and rarely in calcite-quartz veins cutting basalts. The silicified mudstones at the butte top are generally barren. An hydrothermal explosion crater exposed on the southeast side of the butte lies at the intersection of north and northwest-trending faults. Banded quartz veins, quartz-adularia veins, and quartz-cemented breccias are exposed in the walls of the explosion crater. There is evidence of multiple brecciation events. A few mudstones exposed in the crater wall have an exhalative texture, contain pyrite des seminated along bedding, and contain trace amounts of Au. The Red Butte system developed as a hot spring venting into a lake, possibly within a caldera. Periodic influxes of air fall tuffs and coarser clastic sediments diluted accumulating fine grained clastic and chemical sediments. As hot, silica saturated fluids rose into cooler lake waters they were cooled and diluted, resulting in silica flocculation near the vents and silicification of the lake sediments as they were deposited. Faults cutting the butte acted as conduits for the hydrothermal fluids. Overpressuring, caused by silica sealing of open fractures, resulted in explosions, generally followed by resealing of the system. Simultaneous faulting, sedimentation, and hot spring activity occurred at different rates throughout the life of the system. Late in the life of the system, the local water table dropped, and the lake was replaced by a high-energy fluvial system. As the water table dropped below the surface, zones of low pH alteration and bleaching were developed above the hydrothermal vents, implying boiling at depth. The large explosion crater and bedded explosion breccia on the southeast side of the butte were formed in these last stages of hydrothermal activity.

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Debnath, Sudeep. "Surface/Geochemistry of Iron and Manganese Oxide Nano-Materials in the Environment." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/30879.

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Chemistry
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Nanomaterials possess physical and chemical properties that may benefit medicine, catalysis, and environmental remediation. Apart from understanding the structure of nanomaterials, significant amount of research has focused on understanding the structural properties of nanoparticles that lead to their unique reactivity. Ferric hydroxides are important mineral components and the subject of much scientific research in environmental and soil sciences because of their ubiquity in soil, ground water and aquatic sediments Iron oxide nanoparticles found in the environment exhibit size-dependent behavior. Iron oxides also play an important role in environmental chemistry. Ferrihydrite is an important iron oxide mineral as they exist in most of the sediment environment, necessary precursors for more stable iron oxides like hematite. Iron oxides are also important in many living organisms and stored as protein-encapsulated iron(III) oxyhydroxide nanoparticles. Because of the ubiquitous nature of ferrihydrite in soil and sediments, understanding correlation between the surface reactivity and the structure, phase of ferrihydrite ie. homogeneous or heterogeneous phase dependent reaction is important from environmental point of view. Iron oxides also play an important role in atmospheric chemistry and size dependent surface catalytic properties towards atmospheric gases. Green house gases are frequently generated during the burning of fossil fuels in factories and power plants, or derived from natural processes such as volcanic eruptions. Both natural and engineered metal oxides have been utilized as catalysts or sorbents for removal or minimization of green house emissions. In an attempt to understand the structure and reactivity relationship, we have presented ferrihydrite dissolution under reducing conditions and in situ kinetic studies were performed on isolated individual single particles of ferrihydrite using AFM. Bulk batch studies are also presented, where particles exist as agglomerates. Interface dissolution reaction has been characterized with FTIR and results were confirmed with theoretical calculations. Normalized dissolution rate of individual ferrihydrite particle sheds light on the phase behavior of this material. This study indicates that the ferrihydrite is uniform in composition and supports the Michel et al model. The size-dependent reactivity of ferrihydrite toward the environmentally important gas sulfur dioxide SO2 was also studied as atmospheric emission of SO2(g) affects the environment because it promotes the production of acid rain. In this investigation, nano-ferrihydrite particles were synthesized with a narrow size distribution. The surface chemistry and reactivity (SO2(g) sorption) was studied with attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy in combination with molecular orbital/density functional theory (MO/DFT) frequency calculations. Results showed that SO2(g) sorption may be a sensitive function of the structural properties and size of the nanoparticles. Like Iron oxides, Manganese oxides also play a distinctive role in superficial soil or near surface environments. Birnessite is one of the most commonly occurring manganese oxides in the soils and sediments. Birnessite are known to provide a suitable surface for heterogeneous oxidation of As(III) to As(V), and thus contribute to the environmental fate of arsenic species in soil and sediments. In the present study we have made an effort to understand this fundamental geochemistry occurring at birnessite surface at the molecular scale using advanced surface sensitive tools like AFM and spectroscopic techniques like FTIR and XPS. Nano size manganese oxide was also prepared via biological routes. Nano-size manganese oxide was prepared using ferritin protein as the biological precursor. Solution phase arsenic oxidation studies were performed with Ferritin Manganese oxide. Ion chromatography is performed to investigate oxidation of As(III) and reduction of manganese, along with XPS analysis to monitor the oxidation states of arsenic and manganese species. Results were also verified with FTIR spectroscopy for interface speciation.
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Ménot, René-Pierre. "Magmatismes paléozoiques et structuration carbonifère du Massif de Belledonne (Alpes Françaises). Contraintes nouvelles pour les schémas d'évolution de la chaîne varisque ouest-européenne." Phd thesis, Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I, 1987. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00656012.

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Les Massifs cristallins externes (M.C.E) des Alpes occidentales sont des témoins de l' orogène hercynien s.1., repris dans la chaine alpine. Leur place et \ leur signification dans le cadre varisque sont mal cernées. Cette méconnaissance résulte essentiellement de la rareté des données pétrologiques, géochimiques et géochronologiques disponibles. L'étude concerne la chaîne de Belledonne et plus spécialement son extré mité méridionale. Ce secteur Sud-Ouest présente en effet une lithologie et une structuration atypiques par rapport à celles du secteur Nord-Est dont les caractères sont proches . de ceux de l'ensemble des M.C.E . L'analyse peut être schématisée par les étapes suivantes: - Le domaine méridional (basse vallée de la Romanche) est constitué par un empilement de formations différant par leur âge et par leur histoire tectonométamorphique. Des datations soulignent (i) la juxtaposition de terrains cambro-ordoviciens et dévono-carbonifères et(ii) l'âge carbonifère inférieur de la tectogenèse . Deux formations d'origine ignée permettent de caractériser le paléomagnétisme paléozoïque et d'en préciser le site originel: * A la limite Cambro-Ordovicien, une distension crustale conduit à l'ouverture d'un bassin marginal (complexe ophiolitique de Séchilienne-Chamrousse). L'extension crustale est balisée par l'évolution géochimique des métabasites. Ce site originel particulier induit divers processus pétrogénétiques qui se traduisent par la dive rsité des produits basiques et acides. Les déformations et les recristallisations a ppartiennent à deux stades, intra-océanique et orogénique. Une évolution polycyclique est de ce fait écartée. * Au Dévonien, une seconde période d'amincissement crustal conduit à la genèse des formations de Rioupéroux et de Livet. Elle se matérialise par un magmatisme de nature bimodale puis - trondhjémitique. La pétrogenèse est complexe et implique des sources mantelliques et crustales ainsi que des phénomènes de contamination et de mélanges. 2 - Dans l'ensemble de la chaîne de Belledone, une comparaison des domaines Nord-Est et Sud-Ouest montre que le domaine septentrional représente un fragment lithosphérique à structuration plus ancienne siluro-dévonienne, et à caractères de zone profonde (métamorphisme de haute pression siluro-dévonien, anatexie dévonienne et granitisations carbonifères). Le dernier épisode métamorphique, carbonifère, y est rétromorphique et associé au fonctionnement d'une zone de décrochements majeurs, alors que le métamorphisme de même âge est prograde et contemporain de chevauchements dans le domaine méridional. La structure de la chaîne de Belledone est interprétée dans le cadre des serrages tardifs lors de la collision intracontinentale. On souligne la progression centrifuge des phénomènes tectoniques et métamorphiques et l'extension de la ceinture orogénique. 3 - Des corrélations sont proposées avec d'autres segments de la chaîne hercynienne ouest-européenne afin (i) de replacer les diverses pieces du "puzzle" de Belledonne' dans la zonation orogénique pré-carboni fère et (ii) de retrouver les secteurs présentant une évolution similaire au Dinantien.

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Emmermann, Peter. "Mineralogy, geochemistry and microfacies of late Quaternary periplatform sediments carbonate export cycles and secondary processes - Sanganeb Atoll and Abington Reef, Sudan, Central Red Sea = Mineralogie, Geochemie und Mikrofazies spätquartärer Periplattformsedimente /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2000. http://e-diss.uni-kiel.de/diss%/d364.pdf.

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Narwich, Charles Bryan. "Event Stratigraphy Based on Geochemical Anomalies within a Mixed-Sediment Backbarrier Sequence, Southern New Jersey." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/194335.

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Geology
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Detection of large-magnitude coastal events, especially in wave-dominated retrograding barrier settings, has traditionally relied upon lithological evidence, such as distinct overwash sand layers within the muddy backbarrier sequences. In tide-dominated environments, unconformities in marsh stratigraphy have been interpreted as rapid drowning or erosion events caused by large storms. In transitional mixed-energy backbarrier environments, however, clearly identifiable event horizons are rare, due to unfavorable conditions for peat formation or to a lack of overwash. To address these challenges, the present study utilized X-ray fluorescence (XRF), magnetic susceptibility (MS), and X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques to identify anomalies within 4-to-7-m-thick sequences recovered from Sewell Point, Cape May, New Jersey. In these cores, at least five peaks were identified that exhibit up to three-to-four-fold increase in Fe (up to 6.2%) and Ti (up to 0.5%) concentrations and a substantial increase in MS values (> 200 μSI). The sand fraction at these intervals exceeds 40% and is represented by moderately well-sorted, negatively-skewed, fine-grained sand (2.7 φ). Fe, Ti, and MS are positively cross correlated due to the relatively high content of sand-sized heavy minerals such as magnetite, rutile, ilmenite and biotite, as well as phlogopite and muscovite mica. These minerals were also identified using a Rigaku Dmax/B X-ray diffraction device. Seven radiocarbon-dated in situ samples of intertidal gastropods and the few available rhizomes indicate that the Sewell Point sequence accumulated over the past 900-1,000 years, at an average sedimentation rate greater than 4.5 mm/yr, which is consistent with its proximity to a historically active tidal inlet. Lithological anomalies at Sewell Point are interpreted as the signatures of episodic large-magnitude sediment fluxes into the paleo-lagoon. The calibrated ages of organic remains (mollusks and rhizomes) constrain chronology and allow interpretation of these stratigraphic layers as event horizons with historical storms of 1594, 1743 and 1821, along with pre-historic storms in the 11th-13th centuries. This research indicates that geochemically diagnostic intervals offer an effective tool for detection of event horizons and their regional correlation in mixed-sediment backbarrier settings.
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Anné, Jennifer. "HISTOLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF PATHOLOGICAL VERSUS NORMAL BONE IN ALLOSAURUS FRAGILIS AND MODERN AVIANS." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/103924.

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Geology
M.S.
In modern organisms the structure and arrangement of bone apatite crystals is dependent on the arrangement of the organic collagen fibers. This is reflected in the formation of different types of bone tissue, such as woven (immature) or lamellar (mature), in pathological versus normal bone, or fast-growing (woven) versus slow-growing (lamellar) tissue. Because the basic physiological processes of fracture healing are similar in extant vertebrates, similar patterns may exist in fossil taxa. The three questions of interest for this study were the following: 1) Do differences exist in modern bone apatite crystallinity between normal and pathologic bone? 2) Are differences between normal and pathologic tissue consistent in both modern and fossil bone? 3) Does the type of bone tissue affect fossilization? In this study, we use histological and x-ray diffraction (XRD) analyses to examine fracture pathologies in pedal phalanges from the theropod dinosaur Allosaurus fragilis, and two modern bird species, Branta canadensis (Canada goose) and Cathartes aura (turkey vulture). Raman spectroscopy analysis was performed on modern birds, but not fossil material. Stable isotope and rare earth elements (REE) analyses were performed on fossil material to determine if there are differences in how pathologic bone fossilizes compared to normal bone. Results from Raman spectroscopy and XRD confirm that pathologic bone is more crystalline than normal bone in both fossil and modern taxa. Stable isotope and REE analyses do not show any difference in fossilization between pathologic and normal bone, suggesting that these techniques are more suitable for examining taphonomic rather than physiological differences.
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Finlay, Alyssa Jean. "Dissolution Kinetics of Bioapatite from pH 2 to 8 at 4° to 38°C." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/182799.

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Geology
M.S.
Dissolution experiments were conducted on bioapatite at 4°C, 21°C and 38°C and solution pH values between 2 and 8 in a stirred tank reactor. The bioapatite was obtained from modern white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) scapulae, crushed, and cleaned in 30% hydrogen peroxide to remove organic matter. The average BET specific surface area of the 75-106 and 106-246 μm particles was 255 m2 g-1. During experiments the ratio of Ca:P released became stoichiometric at ca. 1.44. The following dissolution rate law was derived from the experimental results: R = K1(H+)ⁿ+K2 in which R is the dissolution rate (mol bioapatite m-2 s-1) based on the bioapatite stoichiometry, n = 1.01 ± 0.15, k1 = 1.84 x 10-6 ± 1.71 x 10-6 mol m-2 s-1, and k2 = 4.29 x 10-10 ± 1.15 x 10-10 mol m-2 s-1 and H+ is the hydrogen ion activity. From 2 < pH < 4, dissolution rate is dependent on pH and becomes independent of pH from 4 < pH < 8. These results for modern bone may be compared with previous investigations of igneous (FAP) and phosphorite-derived sedimentary carbonate fluorapatites (CFA)(e.g., Guidry and Mackenzie, 2003). At pH = 6, in the pHindependent region, dissolution of the modern bioapatite was ca. 7 times faster than FAP and 100 times faster than CFA. The acid transition pH of the bioapatite (pH = 4) is lower than that for FAP (pH = 6). Bioapatite dissolution rates influence fossil preservation potential, the release rate of nutrients from bone meal fertilizers, the effectiveness of bone as reactive barriers to control pollutants and nuclear waste isolation, and as a feedstock material in CO2 sequestration processes.
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Klein, Trevor Isaac. "Investigating nitrate attenuation in an urban stream using stable isotope geochemistry and continuous monitoring." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/319212.

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Geology
M.S.
Urbanization affects in-stream biogeochemical processes that control nutrient export. Attempts to restore urban streams will not be successful unless the biological and physical controls on water quality are thoroughly understood. The objective of this study was to identify the relative influences of tributary dilution, groundwater discharge, and biological processing on nitrate concentrations in an urban stream during high and low flow periods. A wastewater treatment plant (WTP) on Pennypack Creek, an urban stream near Philadelphia, PA, increases nitrate concentrations to a mean of 8.5 mg-l-1 (as N). Concentrations decrease to 5.5 mg-l-1 about 7.5 km downstream. Reaches along this distance were sampled for nitrate concentration and delta-15N at fine spatial intervals to determine the reasons for this decrease. To quantify the effects of dilution, samples were collected from tributaries, groundwater springs, and upstream and downstream of tributaries or groundwater discharge zones identified through terrain analysis and continuous temperature modeling. These methods were also used to identify and sample reaches along which hyporheic flow occurred, where nitrate biological processing is often concentrated. In addition, loggers were installed at closely spaced sites to monitor daily fluctuations in nitrate, dissolved oxygen, and related parameters, which provided further indications of biological processing. Longitudinal sampling revealed decreases in nitrate concentration of 2 and 6.5 mg-l-1 during high and low flow, respectively. During high flow, delta-15N varied from 9.5 to 10.5 per mille downstream of the WTP, while delta-15N varied from 10.14 to 11.06 per mille throughout this reach during low flow. Mixing analysis indicated that groundwater discharge and biological processing both control nitrate concentration during both flow periods. Larger declines in nitrate concentration were observed during low flow than during high flow, and delta-15N fell between biological and groundwater signatures, indicating that both processes were enhanced. Continuous nitrate concentrations displayed distinct diurnal cycles often out-of-phase with dissolved oxygen cycles, indicating autotrophic processing. However, shifts occurred in nitrate cycle timing at a weekly scale wherein daily maximum concentrations were observed as many as 6 hours closer to noon than previously. These shifts were comparable to shifts observed across seasons in other studies, and by the end of the summer, nitrate and dissolved oxygen cycles were in-phase. Furthermore, shifts in nitrate cycles could not be linked to shifts in daily fluctuations of WTP discharge. Longitudinal sampling and continuous monitoring suggest that biological processing is an important control on nitrate concentrations in urban systems, though documenting its signature may be complicated by groundwater discharge and anthropogenic inputs.
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Gangloff, Sophie. "Evaluation of the mechanisms of trace elements transport (Pb, Rare Earth Elements,... ) and the elemental and isotopic fractionation (Ca and Sr) at the interface water-soil-plant." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016STRAH002/document.

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Ce travail est axé sur l’étude d’un profil de sol et des solutions de sol prélevés sur une parcelle expérimentale couvertes d’épicéas. Tous ces échantillons proviennent du Bassin Versant du Strengbach (Observatoire HydroGéochimique de l’Environnement – OHGE), ont été échantillonnés à différentes profondeurs (5, 10, 30 et 60 cm) et durant la période comprise entre 2009 et 2013.Les caractérisations des extraits des sols par spectroscopie Infra-Rouge ont permis de mettre en évidence les modifications des groupements fonctionnels organiques avec la profondeur et que ces modifications ont une forte incidence sur le comportement des cations (majeurs et traces) dans le sol. Des expérimentations d’ultra-filtration ont permis d’identifier les flux colloïdaux et dissous du carbone organique ainsi que ceux des éléments majeurs et traces présents dans les solutions de sol. L’utilisation conjointe des traceurs isotopiques (87Sr/86Sr et δ44/40Ca) et chimiques (Terres Rares) ont mis en évidence des processus ayant lieu aux interfaces eau-sol-plante, comme le prélèvement racinaire ou l’altération des sols
This work is focused on the study of a profile of soil and soil solutions collected on an experimental plot covered with spruce. All these samples come from the watershed of the Strengbach (environment - OHGE Hydrogeochimique Observatory), were sampled at different depths (5, 10, 30 and 60 cm) and during the period between 2009 and 2013. Characterizations of soil extracts by infrared spectroscopy allowed to highlight changes in the organic functional groups with depth and that these changes have a significant impact on the behaviour of the cations (major and trace) in the soil. Ultrafiltration experiments helped to identify flows of colloidal and dissolved organic carbon as well as those of the major and trace-element present in soil solutions. The joint use of isotope tracers (87Sr / 86Sr and δ44 / 40 Ca) and chemical (Rare Earth Elements) have highlighted processes taking place at the water-soil-plant interface, as the uptake by root or soil alteration

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Peterson, Stephen Patrick. "THE GEOLOGIC, GEOMORPHIC, AND GEOGRAPHIC INFLUENCE ON LEAD AND OTHER HEAVY METAL CONCENTRATIONS IN THE SOILS OF FAIRMOUNT PARK, PHILADELPHIA." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/270852.

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The city of Philadelphia is an amalgamation of extremely diverse land uses, both currently and historically, including: transportation, industrial, commercial, parks and residential areas. This urban tapestry of historical and current land use creates the potential for human exposure to heavy metals in contaminated soils. In order to evaluate this potential public health hazard, soil samples from open spaces in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park (the largest inner-city park system in the U.S.) were analyzed using a handheld x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), focusing on Lead (Pb). Three distinct types of land use were identified for detailed analysis: undisturbed parkland, recently disturbed parkland and urbanized park/recreational land. At each location bulk and core samples were taken at specific geomorphic positions along a toposequence or, if little to no topographic change was present, samples were collected at specific intervals from structures or roads. These sites were compared to the geologic background Pb concentration (33 ppm). Less than 1% of samples analyzed were at or below the background Pb concentration for the region, suggesting anthropogenic input of Pb into the system. In total, 24 sites were sampled with three sites chosen for additional core and sequential extraction analysis. Selected samples were sequentially digested to determine Pb fractionation via ICP-MS. In most samples the Pb distribution was: Fe/Mn oxides > residuals > organic > carbonate > exchangeable fraction. Thus, most Pb was in less biologically available fractions. From the total Pb concentration data comparisons were made to a previously published model explaining Pb distributions in the urban environment, incorporating buildings to act as a baffle for aerosolized Pb particles, thus leading to increased Pb concentrations at the base of structures. By modifying this model and using a hill slope as the baffle, these data indicate that geomorphology can concentrate Pb at the bottom of hill slopes in a similar manner. Using the data collected in this study, we can develop an improved sampling model to characterize the potential public health risk associated with these three types of land use in Fairmount Park. This same approach can be used on public lands throughout the Philadelphia region in order to better assess the potential public health hazard posed by Pb and other toxic metals.
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Mahizhnan, Annamalai. "Red-brown hardpan: distribution, origin and exploration implications for gold in the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia." Thesis, Curtin University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1732.

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Red-brown hardpan occurs extensively in Western Australia in the arid and semi-arid regions of the Murchison, Pilbara and Eastern Goldfields divisions, between longitudes 115ºE and 124ºE and latitudes 23ºs and 30ºs. It occupies an area of about 360,000 sq. km, two thirds of which occurs in the Yilgarn Craton. The purpose of this research is to map the distribution of red-brown hardpan in the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia; study the relationship between landscape, soil texture and vegetation; investigate the physical characteristics, petrology, mineralogy, geochemistry and cementing agents; and thereby determine the processes invaded in forming red-brown hardpan. The relation of red-brown hardpan to gold is investigated and determined its implications in mineral exploration. The main case study areas were the Goldfields Gas Pipe Line, the Federal Open Pit Gold mines and the Menzies district in the Kalgoorlie-Menzies region of the Eastern Goldfields; areas in and around the Woolgorong Station in the Murchison Province and at the Wiluna Gold Mines in the Northeastern Goldfields. The findings and conclusions of this research are summarised below. Red-brown hardpan occurs at or near the land surface and may vary from less than one metre to more than 10 m thick. It is exclusively developed in colluvium and alluvium, showing varying stages of cementation ranging from weakly cemented through moderate to strongly cemented. In addition, calcrete and red-brown hardpan occurs together in many places, south of the Menzies line, and this distribution suggests that red-brown hardpan was once more extensive and has been subsequently replaced by carbonate to form calcareous red-brown hardpan and calcrete. Red- brown hardpan predominantly occurs in regions with Q50 mm annual rainfall.In present-day higher rainfall (400 to 500 mm) regions, red-brown hardpan is being weathered. There is no relationship between the distribution of mulga (Acacia aneura) and red-brown hardpan. Red-brown hardpan is exclusively developed in colluvium containing a minimum of 20% quartz, 15% clays and 2% iron oxides. It is bright reddish brown to reddish brown, earthy, with a sandy loam texture, blocky structure and porous. Red-brown hardpan is hard (up to 12 MPa), being characterised by sub-horizontal laminations predominantly of uncemented kaolinite. Ped surfaces may be coated by Mn oxide and carbonate which may be precipitated along the laminations. The mineralogy of the cement is complex. Data from XRD, SEM, TEM, EFTEM, FTIR and NIR investigations show poorly-ordered kaolinite and opal-A as the main components. Illuvial multilayered argillaceous cutans containing silica and alumina in a ratio of 2:l form the cement. Secondary silica (SiO2-95%) coatings are common, mainly as opal-A, on ped surfaces and on the inner walls of voids and vughs. Etch pits are developed in these coatings and some of them are filled by kaolinitic clays. Selective dissolution experiments using acid ammonium oxalate show that oxalate- soluble amorphous and poorly ordered silica and alumina in red-brown hardpan have molar ratios of about 1.6 to 2 A1203:SiO2.These results suggest that red-brown hardpans were formed where there was sufficient water during the wet season to dissolve alumina and silica, but insufficient to leach them. During the subsequent dry season, the dissolved alumina and silica was precipitated as poorly-ordered kaolinite and opal-A. Successive dissolution and precipitation led to fusion of poorly-ordered kaolinite and opal-A at a nanometre scale to progressively cement the colluvium. The age of the red-brown hardpans, estimated by paleomagnetic dating of hematite, is from Pleistocene to present. Based on the findings of this research, the red-brown hardpan is redefined and primarily classified on its degree of cementation as: (1) weakly cemented, (2) moderately cemented and (3) strongly cemented. It is further classified chemically into: (1) siliceous, (2) calcareous and (3) ferruginous. In the Yilgarn Craton, red-brown hardpan is believed to occur mainly north of the 'Menzies Line'. However, this study reveals the presence of red-brown hardpan 75- 150 km south of the Menzies Line and the new southern boundary is closer to latitude 29ºs. Geochemical investigation at the Federal Open Pit Gold mines, Broad Arrow, north of Kalgoorlie indicate that there are Au anomalies in red-brown hardpan. Gold concentration is up to 50 ppb against the background anomaly of 10 ppb. Sequential and partial extraction analyses show significant correlation of Au with Ag, Ca, Ce, Co, Mg, Mn and Ni. This suggests that the Au concentration in red-brown hardpan is due to: (a) mechanical dispersion due to reworking of Au-bearing clasts in the sediment and (b) hydromorphic dispersion from the underlying mineralisation. It can therefore be used as a useful sampling medium for gold exploration.

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Murphy, Riley Tomas. "Reactivity of Iron-Bearing Minerals Under Carbon Sequestration Conditions." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/140596.

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Chemistry
Ph.D.
The rise in anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has caused the pursuit of adequate methods to alleviate the resulting strain on the world's ecosystem. A promising strategy is the geological sequestration of carbon dioxide, in which carbon dioxide emitted from large point sources is injected underground for storage. Under storage, carbon dioxide trapped as a carbonate mineral may be stable for geological time periods. Experiments were conducted to test the potential of ferric-bearing minerals to sequester carbon as a ferrous carbonate mineral (siderite). The formation of siderite requires the reduction of ferric ions which may be achieved by the co-injection of H2S or SO2 contaminants with CO2. Both ferrihydrite and hematite nanoparticles were exposed to an aqueous Na2S solution in the presence of supercritical CO2 (scCO2) and were analyzed in situ by attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR). In situ ATR-FTIR indicated that the formation of siderite occurred on the order of minutes for ferrihydrite and hematite nanoparticles. Particles were analyzed post-reaction with X-ray diffraction (XRD) and electron microscopy. XRD results indicated that ferrihydrite reacted completely to form siderite and elemental sulfur after 24 h at 100 °C, while hematite only partially reacted to form siderite and pyrite after 24 h at 70 °C. Additionally, hematite nanoparticles were exposed to H2S and scCO2 in a series of batch reactions, and the reaction products were determined by XRD as a function of CO2 and H2S partial pressures, alkalinity, salinity, time, and temperature.
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Banuchi, Victoria B. Beatriz. "Ultraviolet Photooxidation and O2 Chemical Oxidation of Fe2+ -Smectites and Implications for Mars." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/520832.

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Geology
M.S.
Clay minerals detected in ancient Martian terrains help constrain Mars’ climate and aqueous alteration history. Since Mars’ primordial origin, atmospheric redox conditions have evolved from reducing to oxidizing and clay minerals may record the effects of that transition. Ferrous trioctahedral smectites of varying iron content were synthesized and subjected to oxidation by O2 and by UV irradiation to address these as potential oxidizing agents. UV irradiation (112.77 hours with 450 W Hg lamp) of smectites equivalent to approximately four years of flux on the Martian surface caused incomplete oxidation (Fe3+/ΣFe = 16-18%). O2 experiments (two hour, twelve hour, two day, and five day) produced more oxidation in smectites with higher Fe content at the same exposure times. Photooxidation caused octahedral sheet contraction; however, chemical oxidation allowed more contraction to occur in the high Fe smectites. The mid and high Fe smectites had observable changes in their visible-near infrared (VNIR) reflectance spectra with the formation of a nontronite (Fe3+, Mg)2-OH feature at 2.3 µm, even with partial oxidation. With both oxidation experiments, the reflectance spectra lost its initial MMM-OH features (AlAl(Fe2+,Mg) and Fe2+MgMg-OH) and produced a single nontronite-like MM-OH feature. UV irradiation produced a secondary nontronite phase, possibly on the surface of the higher Fe content smectites; however there was no evidence for iron ejection. Ferrous smectites are capable of undergoing UV photooxidation under aqueous conditions and this process could have occurred during early Martian history. Distinguishing between UV and O2 oxidation in smectites cannot be completed exclusively with Martian spectra; however, the lack of secondary oxides may hint at alteration history based on the nature of mineral assemblages detected on Mars.
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Moore, Nicole E. DeBari Susan M. "Origin and geochemical evolution of mafic magmas from Mount Baker in the northern Cascade arc, Washington : probes into mantle and crustal processes /." Online version, 2010. http://content.wwu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/theses&CISOPTR=345&CISOBOX=1&REC=14.

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Myer, Caroline Amelia. "Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Organic Geochemistry of the Red Pine Shale, Uinta Mountains, Utah: A Prograding Deltaic System in a Mid-Neoproterozoic Interior Seaway." DigitalCommons@USU, 2008. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/167.

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The Red Pine Shale (RPS; ~1120m), uppermost formation of the Neoproterozoic Uinta Mountain Group, Utah, is an organic-rich sedimentary succession that represents marine deltaic systems delivering mature sediment from the east and immature sediment from the north. Multiple data sets suggest regional climate and sea-level changes associated with changing organic carbon burial rates. Six facies identified represent wave-, tidal-, and river-influenced parts of the distal prodelta to delta front. The shale facies is interpreted as distal prodeltaic deposition in a marine environment. The concretion facies is interpreted as prodeltaic deposition to distal prodelta. The shale-sandstone facies represents suspension settling with dilute density currents in a proximal prodelta to delta front environment. The slump fold facies was deposited on the proximal prodelta or delta front. The sandstone facies represents deposition on the delta front and shows marine- and river- influences. The pebbly sandstone facies is representative of a delta front environment. C-isotope values from this shale range from -29.46 / to -16.91 / PDB and TOC from 0.04% to 5.91%. Combined H/C, TOC, and local-regional isotopic correlations suggest that these values are representative of C-isotope composition of Neoproterozoic seawater. The composite C-isotope curve for the RPS is less negative values near the base, followed by a long decline to a thick interval of homogeneous lower values. Petrographic analyses reveal immature arkosic sandstone and mature quartz arenite populations. Detrital zircon data show an Archean population from the Wyoming Craton to the north and a mixed Proterozoic/Archean population from the east-southeast. Measured sections show north to south delta progradation with a proximal source to the north and a mature sediment source to the east. The composite section shows one low-order regressive cycle and ~11 high-order cycles. There is a relationship between C-isotope values, shale geochemistry, and lithostratigraphy. Less negative C-isotope values correspond with increased kaolinite and facies indicating higher sea-level. These relationships are seen in the correlative Chuar Group, Arizona, and a similar model is suggested for their origin: humid climate, high organic carbon burial rates, and high sea-level. This paper meets the requirements to revise the RPS as a formalized unit in accordance with the Stratigraphic Code guidelines.

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Westfield, Isaac T. Dworkin Steve I. "Geochemical fingerprinting of sediments on the Pear Tree Bottom Reef, near Runaway Bay, Jamaica." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5289.

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Mahizhnan, Annamalai. "Red-brown hardpan: distribution, origin and exploration implications for gold in the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia." Curtin University of Technology, Department of Applied Geology, 2004. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=15888.

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Red-brown hardpan occurs extensively in Western Australia in the arid and semi-arid regions of the Murchison, Pilbara and Eastern Goldfields divisions, between longitudes 115ºE and 124ºE and latitudes 23ºs and 30ºs. It occupies an area of about 360,000 sq. km, two thirds of which occurs in the Yilgarn Craton. The purpose of this research is to map the distribution of red-brown hardpan in the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia; study the relationship between landscape, soil texture and vegetation; investigate the physical characteristics, petrology, mineralogy, geochemistry and cementing agents; and thereby determine the processes invaded in forming red-brown hardpan. The relation of red-brown hardpan to gold is investigated and determined its implications in mineral exploration. The main case study areas were the Goldfields Gas Pipe Line, the Federal Open Pit Gold mines and the Menzies district in the Kalgoorlie-Menzies region of the Eastern Goldfields; areas in and around the Woolgorong Station in the Murchison Province and at the Wiluna Gold Mines in the Northeastern Goldfields. The findings and conclusions of this research are summarised below. Red-brown hardpan occurs at or near the land surface and may vary from less than one metre to more than 10 m thick. It is exclusively developed in colluvium and alluvium, showing varying stages of cementation ranging from weakly cemented through moderate to strongly cemented. In addition, calcrete and red-brown hardpan occurs together in many places, south of the Menzies line, and this distribution suggests that red-brown hardpan was once more extensive and has been subsequently replaced by carbonate to form calcareous red-brown hardpan and calcrete. Red- brown hardpan predominantly occurs in regions with Q50 mm annual rainfall.
In present-day higher rainfall (400 to 500 mm) regions, red-brown hardpan is being weathered. There is no relationship between the distribution of mulga (Acacia aneura) and red-brown hardpan. Red-brown hardpan is exclusively developed in colluvium containing a minimum of 20% quartz, 15% clays and 2% iron oxides. It is bright reddish brown to reddish brown, earthy, with a sandy loam texture, blocky structure and porous. Red-brown hardpan is hard (up to 12 MPa), being characterised by sub-horizontal laminations predominantly of uncemented kaolinite. Ped surfaces may be coated by Mn oxide and carbonate which may be precipitated along the laminations. The mineralogy of the cement is complex. Data from XRD, SEM, TEM, EFTEM, FTIR and NIR investigations show poorly-ordered kaolinite and opal-A as the main components. Illuvial multilayered argillaceous cutans containing silica and alumina in a ratio of 2:l form the cement. Secondary silica (SiO2-95%) coatings are common, mainly as opal-A, on ped surfaces and on the inner walls of voids and vughs. Etch pits are developed in these coatings and some of them are filled by kaolinitic clays. Selective dissolution experiments using acid ammonium oxalate show that oxalate- soluble amorphous and poorly ordered silica and alumina in red-brown hardpan have molar ratios of about 1.6 to 2 A1203:SiO2.
These results suggest that red-brown hardpans were formed where there was sufficient water during the wet season to dissolve alumina and silica, but insufficient to leach them. During the subsequent dry season, the dissolved alumina and silica was precipitated as poorly-ordered kaolinite and opal-A. Successive dissolution and precipitation led to fusion of poorly-ordered kaolinite and opal-A at a nanometre scale to progressively cement the colluvium. The age of the red-brown hardpans, estimated by paleomagnetic dating of hematite, is from Pleistocene to present. Based on the findings of this research, the red-brown hardpan is redefined and primarily classified on its degree of cementation as: (1) weakly cemented, (2) moderately cemented and (3) strongly cemented. It is further classified chemically into: (1) siliceous, (2) calcareous and (3) ferruginous. In the Yilgarn Craton, red-brown hardpan is believed to occur mainly north of the 'Menzies Line'. However, this study reveals the presence of red-brown hardpan 75- 150 km south of the Menzies Line and the new southern boundary is closer to latitude 29ºs. Geochemical investigation at the Federal Open Pit Gold mines, Broad Arrow, north of Kalgoorlie indicate that there are Au anomalies in red-brown hardpan. Gold concentration is up to 50 ppb against the background anomaly of 10 ppb. Sequential and partial extraction analyses show significant correlation of Au with Ag, Ca, Ce, Co, Mg, Mn and Ni. This suggests that the Au concentration in red-brown hardpan is due to: (a) mechanical dispersion due to reworking of Au-bearing clasts in the sediment and (b) hydromorphic dispersion from the underlying mineralisation. It can therefore be used as a useful sampling medium for gold exploration.

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Cerkez, Elizabeth B. "Investigations of Surface Redox Chemistry on Environmentally Relevant Iron Oxides and Sulfides." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/383744.

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Chemistry
Ph.D.
Important reactions in the environment often occur at the interface between a mineral surface and aqueous phase. Reactions occurring at this interface often control the uptake or release of harmful components resulting in the geochemical cycling of elements in the environment. Additionally, minerals are commonly used in the remediation of contaminated areas, where similar chemistry occurs at their interfaces. Thus, studies of the chemistry of these interfaces are essential to our understanding of complex environments. Many of these processes are controlled by electron transfer reactions between adsorbates and the mineral interface, and it is here where this research presented will concentrate. The studies in this thesis key in on redox chemistry on various environmentally relevant iron minerals, including ferrihydrite, pyrite, and amorphous iron sulfide. A large portion of this body of work is dedicated to the understanding of the surface mediated reaction between chromate (Cr(VI)) and arsenite (As(III)). Both of these species are present in the environment and are detrimental to human health. Using in- and ex-situ experiments we have monitored the coupled redox transformation of Cr(VI) and As(III) to chromite (Cr(III)) and arsenate (As(V)). Quantum mechanical modeling was used to support the experimental studies of this novel redox chemistry. The reaction was monitored in situ, using attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), on the surface of the iron oxyhydroxide, ferrihydrite, at various solution pH values by following vibrational modes unique to Cr(VI), As(III), and As(V). At pH < 9 we observed an initial growth of Cr(VI) vibrational modes due to adsorption, followed by the simultaneous decrease in Cr(VI) vibrational modes and increase in As(V) vibrational modes. Ex situ analysis of the reaction products via X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) indicated that there was an increase in the percentage of reaction products as the pH decreased. Quantum mechanical calculations were completed to model the reaction of Cr(VI) and As(III) on the ferrihydrite surface by analyzing differences in geometric and electronic structural changes and thermodynamic preferences. The results indicate that Cr(VI) and As(III) adsorbed physically separated from each other is not only thermodynamically favorable but results in changes in As(III)-Fe and Cr(VI)-Fe atomic distances, towards those characteristic of As(V)-Fe and Cr(III)-Fe. Thus a mechanism where electron transport occurs through bulk states is plausible. Additionally, natural bond order analysis reveals a redistribution of electron density away from the Cr(VI) atomic center upon adsorption, indicating probable changes in Cr(VI) reduction potential. The electrochemical reduction of Cr(VI) on three surfaces, ferrihydrite, titanium dioxide, and aluminum oxides, indicate that Cr(VI) reduction potential is surface dependent, an observation that has significance for redox chemistry in the environment. The interaction of ferric, Fe(III), with iron sulfide surfaces (during and after coal mining activities) contributes to the detrimental environmental problem known as acid mine drainage (AMD). We investigated whether Fe(III) chelating siderophores could be used to suppress the oxidation of iron sulfide surfaces and the resulting AMD chemistry. The exposure of the iron sulfide, pyrite, to the siderophore, desferrioxamine B (DFOB) at initial pH values of 3, 6, and 8 under oxic conditions showed a significant decrease in the rate of dissolution of pyrite: decreases of 43.7%, 37.5% and 78.4%, respectively. An even greater decrease in pyrite oxidation was observed when DFOB was present in anoxic conditions, specifically 56.1%, 74.4% and 91.5%, at pH 3, 6 and 8, respectively. We further compared the rate of dissolution between DFOB and another siderophore, enterobactin, which is a stronger chelator of Fe(III). The presence of enterobactin suppressed pyrite oxidation more than DFOB, consistent with the contention that inhibiting the interaction of Fe(III) with pyrite will decrease the oxidation of the mineral. We also analyzed the exposure of the pyrite surface to DFOB using ATR-FTIR, to determine if any surface chelation occurs. We found that when Fe(III) is present on the pyrite surface, DFOB adsorbs to the surface via hydroxamate groups, similar to the aqueous phase spectra of DFOB-Fe(III) complex. In contrast the spectra do not exhibit hydroxamate vibrational modes when Fe(III) was not initially present on the pyrite surface and in this circumstance the spectra resembled that of aqueous phase unchelated DFOB. Taken together the results showed that siderophore inhibited pyrite oxidation by chelating Fe(III) present on the pyrite surface and in solution. Finally, the reduction of NO(g) to NH3/NH4+ with amorphous iron sulfide (FeS) was studied. The exposure of NO gas to a suspension of FeS solid resulted in the conversion of 2.3% NO(g) to the reaction product ammonia (NH3), which was found to grow over time, while the exposure of NO(g) to water (in the absence of mineral) resulted in no NH3 formation. Additionally, we completed in situ analysis of NO exposure to FeS as a function of water concentration using ATR-FTIR. The exposure of NO to an aqueous paste of FeS or a FeS film (with adsorbed H2O), resulted in the adsorption of NO to the FeS surface and the subsequent production of NH3, as indicated by N-H vibrational modes. In contrast, the removal of all water, via thermal desorption from the film, resulted in the adsorption of NO but did not show vibrational modes consistent with the formation of NH3. We conclude that the presence of H2O, as a source of protons, and a FeS surface, as a source of electrons, results in the transformation of NO to NH3 via a heterogeneous reaction. This result has important implications towards remediation of NOx gases and mechanisms of prebiotic synthesis of NH3. In summary, the research presented expands our understanding of redox reactions at mineral interfaces in the environment. The work herein aims to inform and aid in the development of remediation methods for arsenic and chromium, the formulation of methods to inhibit the production of acid mine drainage, and develop our understanding of toxic NOx gas reduction on surfaces.
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Hausner, Douglas B. "Surface Science Investigations: Calcite Surface Reconstruction and Ferrihydrite Reactivity." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/44342.

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Chemistry
Ph.D.
On surfaces and within interfaces occur some of the most important reactions in chemistry, from world changing industrial reactions to critical environmental processes. It is even hypothesized that the chiral nature of life arose from reactions occurring on chiral mineral surfaces. In any case adsorption typically plays a key role. Adsorption can occur on rapid time scales, particularly in catalytic systems, and it can be the precursor to highly stable surface interaction mechanisms such as surface precipitation. Surface adsorption can have a dramatic affect on the resulting surface increasing or decreasing the propensity for further reactivity or adsorption. In order to understand the processes occurring on a surface both the surface and the adsorbate must be understood. This includes a surface with any prior adsorbates. This is why many catalytic studies are done in UHV environments where clean surfaces are prepared for each experiment. The same is true with environmental surfaces, but obtaining pristine surfaces can be problematic, and systems are often extremely complicated involving organic, inorganic, and biological components. Often research is focused on just one component. A significant portion of this dissertation is focused on the adsorption of organic and inorganic species on pristine mineral surfaces. While there is significant research done on environmental surfaces, often times the surface used in studies is not well characterized. In essence lesser attention is paid to the substrate then the adsorbate. This is particularly true of infrared studies similar to the type presented in chapter 5 where carbonate is shown to exist in significant quantity on all ferrihydrite surfaces. Furthermore, chapter 4 highlights the potential for ion mobility on calcite surfaces under ambient conditions and the effect the adsorbates in chapter 3 have on the mobility process. The principal of this dissertation is to characterize fundamental surface processes which occur on calcite and ferrihydrite surfaces under ambient conditions. The hope is that this can lay the ground work for future studies where native adsorption and restructuring is taken into account on mineral surfaces during experimental studies.
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Paulson, Benjamin D. DeBari Susan M. "Magmatic processes in the Jurassic Bonanza arc : insights from the Alberni region of Vancouver Island, Canada /." Online version, 2010. http://content.wwu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/theses&CISOPTR=331&CISOBOX=1&REC=3.

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Lammers, Kristin D. "Carbon dioxide sequestration by mineral carbonation of iron-bearing minerals." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/339925.

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Carbon dioxide (CO2) is formed when fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal are burned in power producing plants. CO2 is naturally found in the atmosphere as part of the carbon cycle, however it becomes a primary greenhouse gas when human activities disturb this natural balanced cycle by increasing levels in the atmosphere. In light of this fact, greenhouse gas mitigation strategies have garnered a lot of attention. Carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (CCUS) has emerged as a possible strategy to limit CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. The technology involves capturing CO2 at the point sources, using it for other markets or transporting to geological formations for safe storage. This thesis aims to understand and probe the chemistry of the reactions between CO2 and iron-bearing sediments to ensure secure storage for millennia. The dissertation work presented here focused on trapping CO2 as a carbonate mineral as a permanent and secure method of CO2 storage. The research also explored the use of iron-bearing minerals found in the geological subsurface as candidates for trapping CO2 and sulfide gas mixtures as siderite (FeCO3) and iron sulfides. Carbon dioxide sequestration via the use of sulfide reductants of the iron oxyhydroxide polymorphs lepidocrocite, goethite and akaganeite with supercritical CO2 (scCO2) was investigated using in situ attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The exposure of the different iron oxyhydroxides to aqueous sulfide in contact with scCO2 at ~70-100 ˚C resulted in the partial transformation of the minerals to siderite (FeCO3). The order of mineral reactivity with regard to siderite formation in the scCO2/sulfide environment was goethite < lepidocrocite ≤ akaganéite. Overall, the results suggested that the carbonation of lepidocrocite and akaganéite with a CO2 waste stream containing ~1-5% H2S would sequester both the carbon and sulfide efficiently. Hence, it might be possible to develop a process that could be associated with large CO2 point sources in locations without suitable sedimentary strata for subsurface sequestration. This thesis also investigates the effect of salinity on the reactions between a ferric-bearing oxide phase, aqueous sulfide, and scCO2. ATR-FTIR was again used as an in situ probe to follow product formation in the reaction environment. X-ray diffraction along with Rietveld refinement was used to determine the relative proportion of solid product phases. ATR-FTIR results showed the evolution of siderite (FeCO3) in solutions containing NaCl(aq) concentrations that varied from 0.10 to 4.0 M. The yield of siderite was greatest under solution ionic strength conditions associated with NaCl(aq) concentrations of 0.1-1 M (siderite yield 40% of solid product) and lowest at the highest ionic strength achieved with 4 M NaCl(aq) (20% of solid product). Based partly on thermochemical calculations, it is suggested that a decrease in the concentration of aqueous HCO3- and a corresponding increase in co-ion formation, (i.e., NaHCO3) with increasing NaCl(aq) concentration resulted in the decreasing yield of siderite product. At all the ionic strength conditions used in this study, the most abundant solid phase product present after reaction was hematite (Fe2O3) and pyrite (FeS2). The former product likely formed via dissolution/reprecipitation reactions, whereas the reductive dissolution of ferric iron by the aqueous sulfide likely preceded the formation of pyrite. These in situ experiments allowed the ability to follow the reaction chemistry between the iron oxyhr(oxide), aqueous sulfide and CO2 under conditions relevant to subsurface conditions. Furthermore, very important results from these small-scale experiments show this process can be a potentially superior and operable method for mitigating CO2 emissions.
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CHAKRABORTY, SUVANKAR. "THE GEOCHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF ALKALINE MAGMAS FROM THE CRARY MOUNTAINS, MARIE BYRD LAND, ANTARCTICA." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1174187928.

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Palin, Richard Mark. "Using metamorphic modelling techniques to investigate the thermal and structural evolution of the Himalayan-Karakoram-Tibetan orogen." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f86580ad-c183-4ecd-bcbd-17f3a1b74548.

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Metamorphic rocks constitute a vast volumetric proportion of the Earth’s continental lithosphere and are invaluable recorders of the mechanisms and rates of deformation and metamorphism that occur at the micro-, meso- and macro-scale. As such, they have the potential to provide detailed insight into important tectonic processes such as the subductive transport of material into, and back from, mantle depths and also folding, faulting and thickening of crust that occurs during collisional orogeny. The Himalayan-Karakoram-Tibetan orogen is the youngest and most prominent example of a continent-continent collisional mountain belt on Earth today and is a product of the on-going convergence of the Indian and Asian plates that initiated in the Early Eocene. Thus, it provides an exceptional natural laboratory for the investigation of such processes. Recent advances in the computational ability to replicate natural mineral assemblages through a variety of metamorphic modelling techniques have led to improvements in the amount (and quality) of petrographic data that may be obtained from a typical metamorphic rock. In this study, phase equilibria modelling (pseudosection construction) using THERMOCALC, amongst other techniques, has been integrated with in-situ U–Pb and Th–Pb geochronology of accessory monazite in order to constrain the tectonothermal evolution of four regions intimately associated with the Himalayan-Karakoram-Tibetan orogen. These regions comprise the Karakoram metamorphic complex (north Pakistan), the Tso Morari massif (north-west India), the eastern Himalayan syntaxis (south-east Tibet) and the Day Nui Con Voi metamorphic core complex of the Red River shear zone (North Vietnam). Each case study documents previously unreported metamorphic, magmatic or deformational events that are associated with the India-Asia collision. These data have allowed original interpretations to be made regarding the tectonic evolution of each individual region as well as the large-scale evolution of the Himalayan-Karakoram-Tibetan orogenic system as a whole.

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Berglund, James Lundstrom. "Karst Aquifer Recharge and Conduit Flow Dynamics From High-Resolution Monitoring and Transport Modeling in Central Pennsylvania Springs." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/589966.

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Geoscience
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Karst aquifers are dynamic hydrologic systems which are sensitive to short-term recharge events (storms) and heterogeneous recharge characteristics (point recharge at sinks, irregular soil thicknesses). These aquifers are highly productive yet also vulnerable to contamination, in large part because the conduit network is a significant unknown for predicting karst flow paths. To address these uncertainties, two adjacent karst springs, Tippery Spring and Near Tippery Spring, were monitored to better understand flow and source mixing characteristics. The two springs in central Pennsylvania’s Nittany Valley have similar discharges and are only 65 meters apart, yet they show unique behaviors in terms of water chemistry and discharge response to storms. First examined for flow characterization in 1971 by Shuster and White, the springs were analyzed in this study using high-resolution logging and new tracers such as rare earth element (REEs) and Ca/Zr ratios. This research contributes to the field of karst hydrology through innovative water sampling and monitoring techniques to investigate karst recharge and flow behavior along with conduit flow models incorporating multiple calibration target datasets such as water temperature and dye tracing. Stable isotope signatures (δD & δ18O) of storm water samples at the two springs varied based on storm intensity, but also due to their unique recharge behaviors. Increased spring discharge preceded the arrival of storm water as conduits were purged of pre-storm water, indicated by no change in isotopic composition on the rising limb. The isotopic signature then became progressively more enriched at both springs, indicating storm water recharge. At Tippery, this enrichment began around peak flow, sooner than at Near Tippery where enrichment began during the descending limb. Thus, isotopes indicated a stronger surface connection at Tippery Spring. Storm intensity also affected the relative contribution of recharging water reaching both springs, with a larger storm producing a larger recharge signature compared to a smaller storm. At Tippery Spring, for a short time the majority of emerging water was storm water, which may indicate a reversal in water exchange between the conduits and the surrounding matrix, an important consideration in karst contaminant transport. Two natural tracers were applied in new ways for this study: Ca/Zr ratios and REE patterns. Both tracers provided additional information about flow paths and recharge sources as they varied during the storm hydrograph. Ca/Zr ratios changed in timing and intensity with storm intensity, and both springs exhibited a decline in Ca/Zr ratios as calcium-rich carbonate matrix water was displaced by zirconium-rich storm recharge water from sinking streams off the clastic upland ridges. Being a storm water arrival indicator in clastic-ridge-fed Valley and Ridge springs, this relationship made Ca/Zr ratios a useful substitute for stable water isotopes while also providing information on source area. In response to storm water recharge, REE concentrations increased with the arrival of storm water. The timing and magnitude of concentration increases were influenced both by the degree of surface connectivity intrinsic to each spring and the intensity of the recharge event. Elevated REE concentrations persisted after other parameters recovered to pre-storm levels, suggesting water which has interacted with either the local carbonate matrix or the upland siliciclastics. These slower flow paths recharging the two springs were not apparent from other geochemical parameters. This study illustrated the relationships among multiple tracers to understand source waters in different periods of storm hydrographs. A flow and transport model using the Finite Element Subsurface Flow Model (FEFLOW) was calibrated using quantitative dye trace and high resolution temperature data to simulate the connection between a sinking stream and Tippery Spring. Dye was injected at the sink and monitored at the spring while temperature data was collected using loggers at both the sink and the spring. FEFLOW was used to simulate the connection between sink and spring through varying conduit geometries, sink and spring discharges, conduit conductivity, conduit cross-sectional area, matrix transmissivity, matrix porosity, and dispersivity. Single conduit models reproduced larger peak and recession concentrations than observed. A forked conduit model diverted flow from the main conduit, reducing the concentration of dye reaching the spring, provided a better match. Latin Hypercube sensitivity analysis indicated that dye concentration breakthrough curves were most sensitive to conduit conductivity and less sensitive to other model parameters. Temperature data from high-resolution loggers at the sink and spring were then incorporated into the model scenarios to reproduce seasonal spring temperature using the conduit configuration fit to the dye trace. Simulated temperature signals at the spring were sensitive to parameters in addition to conduit conductivity, most notably matrix transmissivity and inflow rates at the sink. The dual approach to karst model calibration using a temperature model set up from an initial dye trace results in greater model confidence due to a limited possible range in conduit conductivity. This study improved conceptual and numerical models for karst by examining how data from storm events and tracers can be used to better understand recharge and flow paths.
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Silva, Renata Maria Goulart da. "Acúmulo de metais-traço no sedimento e em organismos da megafauna bentônica na Baía do Almirantado, Ilha Rei George, Antártica." Niterói, 2017. https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/4783.

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Universidade Federal Fluminense. Instituto de Química. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geoquímica, Niterói, RJ
Nos últimos anos observa-se um aumento crescente das atividades humanas, tanto científicas quanto turísticas, no ambiente antártico, sendo motivo de preocupação considerando-se que a Antártica é um ambiente de lenta recuperação. Ainda são escassos os estudos sobre o estabelecimento de relações entre a presença de contaminantes e seus efeitos na biota antártica. A contaminação pode ocorrer por processos antrópicos ou naturais e os efeitos destes impactos podem ser detectados e monitorados através da análise das alterações nas comunidades bentônicas. Estas comunidades podem ser consideradas boas indicadoras de impactos ambientais, já que possuem uma relação direta com a origem dos contaminantes acumulados nos sedimentos. Este trabalho avaliou os níveis de metais-traço encontrados no sedimento e em duas espécies circumpolares da megafauna bentônica antártica, a estrela-domar Odontaster validus e o molusco bivalve Laternula elliptica, com a finalidade de determinar se as mesmas podem ser utilizadas como indicadoras de impacto ambiental. Durante o verão austral de 2005/2006 foram realizadas coletas através de diferentes procedimentos, entre 15 e 40m de profundidade, em cinco estações dentro da Área Antártica Especialmente Gerenciada da Baía do Almirantado, Ilha Rei George: 1) Estação Antártica Comandante Ferraz; 2) Botany Point; 3) Punta Ullman; 4) Punta Plaza e 5) Refúgio II. Os seguintes metais foram quantificados tanto para o sedimento quanto para os organismos: Al, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Cd, Ba, Pb e Zn. A concentração de metais variou entre os diferentes compartimentos corpóreos analisados. Para a espécie O. validus, as maiores concentrações de metais-traço (Mn, Ni, Cd, Ba, Pb) e do macronutriente Al, foram encontradas na parede do corpo. Cu, Cr, V e Zn apresentaram maior concentração no estômago, enquanto o macronutriente Fe concentrou-se preferencialmente nos cecos pilóricos. Para a espécie L. elliptica, as maiores concentrações de metais-traço (Mn, V, Ba, Cu) e dos macronutrientes Fe e Al, foram encontradas no sifão. Cd, Ni, Pb e Zn apresentaram maior concentração no rim enquanto o Cr foi mais concentrado no compartimento restos. A concentração de elementostraço nos compartimentos corpóreos de O. validus e L. elliptica não foi influenciada pelo tamanho do organismo (peso total do indivíduo).
Once the Antarctic environment has low recovery rates, the recent growth in the touristic and scientific activities is a serious issue for the scientific community. Few studies have tried to establish the links between the presence of contaminants and the antarctic biota. The contamination may be related to human or natural processes, and be monitored trough the benthic communities. These communities have a direct relation with the contaminants sources in the sediment. The present work analyzed the trace-metals levels found in the sediment and two circumpolar benthic megafauna species in Antarctica, the starfish Odontaster validus and the Antarctic clam Laternula elliptica. The objective was to establish if these species can be used as environmental indicators. Five stations was occupied during the austral summer of 2005/2006, between 15 and 40m deep, in the Antarctic Special Management Area of Admiralty Bay, George King Island: 1) Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Base; 2) Botany Point; 3) Punta Ullman; 4) Punta Plaza and 5) Refúgio II. Analyzes were conducted to quantify the presence of Al, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Cd, Ba, Pb and Zn, both in the sediment and organisms. The metals concentrations vary in the different body compartments. Larger concentrations of (Mn, Ni, Cd, Ba, Pb) trace metals and Al macronutrient were found in the body walls of O. validus. Cu, Cr, V and Zn showed larger concentrations in the stomach and the Fe macronutrient in the caeca pyloric. For L. elliptica, larger trace metals (Mn, V, Ba, Cu) and macronutrients (Fe and Al) concentrations were found in the sifon, while Cd, Ni, Pb and Zn showed larger concentrations in the kidney. Cr presented larger concentrations in the remains compartment. The concentrations of trace elements in both O. validus and L. elliptica were not influenced by the body size (total individual weight).

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Laubscher, Sydney. "MANGANESE UPTAKE IN RED MAPLE TREES IN RESPONSE TO MINERAL DISSOLUTION RATES IN SOIL." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1574431912056187.

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Bostock, Helen C., and Helen Bostock@anu edu au. "Geochemically tracing the intermediate and surface waters in the Tasman Sea, southwest Pacific." The Australian National University. Faculty of Science, 2005. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20061106.123254.

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The relatively understudied intermediate waters of the world have been implicated as an important part of the global ocean circulation. This thesis discusses the intermediate waters of the Pacific over space and time. Initially, by using geochemical tracers to look at the present distribution, sources and mixing of the water masses. Secondly, by using oxygen and carbon isotopes from sediment cores to study changes in Antarctic Intermediate Waters (AAIW) over the late Quaternary in the north Tasman Sea. The sediment cores also provide sedimentological data on the hemipelagic sedimentation in the Capricorn Channel in the southern Great Barrier Reef as well information on changes in the East Australian surface current (EAC) over the last glacial-interglacial transition. [A more extended Abstract can be found in the files]

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Zheng, Xinyuan. "Oceanic cycling of rare earth elements and the application of Nd isotopes to assess changes in Mesozoic ocean circulation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0b06129a-8f51-4421-a043-5eeb86cec972.

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Rare earth elements (REEs) and their isotopes (such as Nd isotopes) can be potentially used to trace a wide range of oceanic processes in both modern and ancient oceans, but their successful application as tracers requires a comprehensive understanding of REE cycling in the modern ocean. Previous studies of REEs in seawater were largely constrained by analytical difficulties in generating accurate and precise REE data from seawater, which typically contain REE concentrations at a sub-ppt to ppt level. A new, and relatively simple, analytical method for precise and accurate determination of all dissolved REE concentrations in reasonably small (∼100 ml) seawater samples is presented in this thesis. With the application of the new method, this thesis reports the first full-depth, zonal ocean section of all dissolved REE concentrations, collected during the CoFeMUG cruise along ∼12°S in the South Atlantic. The section approach of this study places the distribution of dissolved REE concentrations in a well-constrained hydrographic context, allowing the first quantitative assessment (by an inverse model) of the relative importance of hydrographic controls resulting from advection/mixing of ocean circulation, together with non-conservative controls resulting from local particle scavenging and remineralization, in controlling the distribution of dissolved REEs in this region. A noteworthy decoupling of Ce and Mn with respect to their cycling in the water column was also observed in this study. The application of Nd isotopes as a tracer to reconstruct changes in ocean circulation in the NW European chalk shelf sea during rapid climatic events, including the mid-Cenomanian Event and oceanic anoxic event 2 (OAE 2), suggests a tight coupling between ocean circulation and transient climatic cooling during the general warm Late Cretaceous. An advected volcanic signal during OAE 2 was registered in the seawater Nd-isotope record from the English Chalk, probably suggesting a period of enhanced ocean ventilation/mixing at this time.

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Bellefleur, Alexandre. "Cinétique de réaction et solubilité des produits de corrosion dans les conditions physico-chimiques du circuit primaire des réacteurs à eau sous pression (REP)." Phd thesis, Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00767055.

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L'objectif du travail présenté est d'acquérir expérimentalement de nouvelles données thermodynamiques sur les espèces qui constituent les produits de corrosion présents dans le circuit primaire des REP. Le volet expérimental de cette étude se focalise sur deux phases solides du nickel : l'oxyde de nickel NiO (ou bunsenite) et le ferrite de nickel NiFe2O4. La vitesse de dissolution de l'oxyde de nickel a été mesurée jusqu'à 130°C en milieu acide (pH 3 à 5). Un modèle cinétique a été utilisé afin de décrire les vitesses de dissolution mesurées expérimentalement. Ce modèle a permis de déterminer l'énergie d'activation réelle de la réaction de dissolution de l'oxyde de nickel. La solubilité d'un ferrite de nickel stœchiométrique synthétisé expérimentalement a été mesurée entre 100 et 200°C dans une cellule potentiométrique à électrodes à hydrogène. La spéciation du fer et du nickel dans la solution expérimentale a été discutée au regard des données thermodynamiques disponibles à haute température et des constantes d'équilibre calculées par le code MULTEQ. L'un des aspects de cette étude a consisté en la conception et la mise en route d'une cellule de mesure de solubilité à haute température : la boucle SOLO. Les spécifications techniques et le fonctionnement de cette installation seront présentés en détail.

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Stepanov, Aleksandr S. "Monazite control on Th, U and REE redistribution during partial melting: experiment and application to the deeply subducted crust." Phd thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9432.

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Rare earth elements (REE), Th and U are elements with similar geochemical properties. In crustal rocks these elements are hosted by the light REE (LREE) phosphate mineral monazite. Piston-cylinder experiments were conducted to constrain monazite solubility and monazite/melt partitioning in hydrous granitic melts at conditions relevant to crustal anatexis and subduction zone melting. Monazite has strong preference for LREE and Th; REE heavier than Nd have decreasing compatibility in monazite, and U is less compatible than LREE and Th. New experimental data and reconciliation with previous studies led to a new formulation of LREE solubility in granitic melts as a function of temperature, pressure, monazite composition and water content in melt. The behaviour of monazite during high-pressure and ultra-high pressure (UHP) metamorphism was studied using a suite of rocks from the Kokchetav massif, Kazakhstan. Detailed petrographic and geochronologic study of the samples from the Kokchetav UHP complex was combined with investigation of trace element geochemistry and mineral inclusions of garnet, monazite and zircon. These data demonstrated that (a) on prograde evolution rocks did not experience a linear increase of pressure and temperature (P and T), but had stages of almost isothermal increase of pressure and heating stage with a small increase of pressure, (b) exhumation produced a close association of UHP gneisses with rocks that experienced metamorphism at lower PT conditions and/or along different paths from typical UHP rocks. The geochemistry of the UHP gneisses of the Kokchetav complex is a perfect target for the application of the new experimental data, because these rocks experienced metamorphism and melting at the highest PT conditions recorded in crustal rocks. Bulk rock geochemistry of the UHP gneisses shows pronounced depletion in LREE, Th and U, and a smaller degree of depletion or enrichment in other elements that are often considered as incompatible. The variation in composition of UHP gneisses is explained by a new petrological model, which takes into account the fact that restites are composed of residual assemblage together with a residual melt. It is demonstrated that together with the residual mineral association, the degree of melting and melt extraction efficiency play an important role in controlling of trace element behaviour. Polyphase inclusions trapped in garnet were found in samples of some UHP gneisses. The original composition of inclusions was obtained by high pressure rehomogenisation experiments. The experiments demonstrated that polyphase inclusions represent former melts of variable compositions, varying from high temperature high-LREE melts formed at peak conditions to low-LREE melts formed during exhumation. These inclusions are the first natural examples of melts formed by melting of sediments at subarc depth. This partial melting led to the complete dissolution of monazite and a strong depletion of LREE, Th and U in the UHP gneisses. Melt inclusions and bulk rock geochemistry provide evidence for the release of high LREE melts from melting of crustal metasediments. Partial melting is thus an important process changing the physical and chemical properties of deeply subducted crustal rocks.

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Geer, Phillip. "Magnetite Mineralization of the Hammondville Pluton: Poly-Phase Kiruna Type IOCG Magnetite-Apatite Deposits in the Lyon Mountain Granite." 2020. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/965.

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Recent mapping of the Eagle Lake Quadrangle, NY, coupled with whole-rock geochemistry and microscopy has offered insight into the petrogenesis of the magnetite-apatite deposits of the Hammondville mining district in the eastern Adirondack Mountains. This study provides insight into the magmatic history of the ca. 1060-1050 Ma Lyon Mountain Granite (Hammondville Pluton) which is intimately related to, and hosts the deposits in this area. Magnetite seams are commonly surrounded by well layered magnetite gneiss, which typically parallel the seams, although in some outcrops appear to be slightly truncated by them. Mineralization is generally concordant with the weak layering found throughout the rest of the pluton, and similarly lacks a pervasive metamorphic fabric. Sub-solidus deformation is recorded in some localized shear zones that occur in both the seams and host-granite indicating post-crystallization and post-mineralization deformation events. These episodes could have provided conduits for fluids responsible for growing younger zircon that past workers dated and interpreted as a separate time of mineralization. We conclude that magnetite mineralization likely occurred as separate magma, or magnetite rich fluid, injected into the Lyon Mountain Granite either as a syn-magmatic process, or while it was still a crystalline mush.

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Trestrail, J. L. "U-Pb detrital zircon, geochemical and Nd isotope constraints on sedimentary provenance of the Chewings Range Quartzite, Warumpi Province, Arunta Region, NT." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/106279.

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The Chewings Range Quartzite is a meta-sedimentary cover sequence located in the Warumpi Province of the Arunta Region. U-Pb detrital Zircon analysis of the Chewings Range Quartzite indicates a minimum depositional age of ~ 1640Ma, with the main population of zircons residing within a range of 1700 – 1800Ma. Evidence from Sm-Nd isotopic data suggests that a series of Staurolite Garnet Schists, often grouped with the Chewings Range Quartzite, has a significantly more juvenile character. This suggests that it may represent a new unit with a significantly differing provenance to that of the Chewings Range Quartzite. Combined REE, geochemistry and detrital zircon dating suggests that the Chewings Range Quartzite was derived primarily off the Arunta Region and North Australian Craton, while the Stauralite Garnet Schists holds more affinity with juvenile Musgrave Province to the south.
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Chapelle, Béatrice. "La lithosphére océanique de la Téthys ligure. Etude des magmatismes basiques et acides ( Massifs ophiolitiques du Montgenèvre et de Haute Ubaye)." Phd thesis, 1990. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00536874.

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Les termes acides et basiques des massifs ophiolitiques du Montgenèvre et de Haute- Ubaye sont étudiés en parallèle dans ce travail. L'étude pétrographique (notamment l'étude typologique des zircons pour les albitites) et la géochimie des éléments majeurs confirment la nature tholéilique des magmasétudiés. L'étude du comportement des éléments traces (Zr, Y, Nb,Th, Cr, REE) permet de mettre en évidence, pour le Montgenèvre,une évolution continue des roches basiques conduisant de basaltes enrichis en LREE, situés à la base de la série, à des basaltes appauvris en LREE (N -MORB typiques) tardifs et représenlés par les coulées aphyriques supérieures et certains filons doléritobasaltiques. Une telle évolution paraît refléter une fusion partielle dynamique, seule capable d'expliquer les variations importantes du rapport La/Sm. Les roches basiques de Haute- Ubaye montrent une plus grande homogénéité géochimique que celles du Montgenèvre avec une majorité de spectres de terres rares bombés. Les variations du taux de fusion partielle (Montgenèvre) et les caractères de la cristallisation fractionnée (Montgenèvre el Haute Ubaye) sont précisés. L'étude des éléments-lraces des albitites des deux ensembles révèle également la diversité géochimique de ces roches et vraissemblablement l'existence de plusieurs souches parentales. Au Montgenèvre, seules les albitites massives de la Replatte du Gondran (Chenaillet) peuvent être considérées comme cogénétiques des basaltes en coussins. Les albitites de la Punta Rascia (Italie) seraient plus anciennes, postérieures au premier épisode magmatique à l'origine de la grande masse gabbroïque du Montgenèvre. En Haute- Ubaye, il n'existe aucune filiation géochimique nette entre les roches basiques et les roches acides. Les observations de terrain et les données géochimiques permettent d'envisager une évolution temporelle complexe où les termes effusifs paraissent s'être mis en place tardivement et latéralement par rapport au rift océanique. L'étude typologique des zircons des éléments acides d'une brèche polygénique située à l'interface ophiolite-sédiments dans la partie orientale du massif a montré la nature calco-alcaline de certains de ces éléments. Par comparaison avec des brèches semblables étudiées dans le Queyras, ces éléments pourraient provenir du démantèlement de la croûte continentale voisine. Ainsi, les ophiolites du Montgenèvre sont, par leur position structurale et leurs caractéristiques géochimiques, à rapporter vraissemblablement aux premiers termes du magmatisme océanique téthysien.

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Rasmussen, Stephen Eric. "Neutron activation analysis of samples from the Kimberley Reef Conglomerate." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/18147.

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The technique of instrumental neutron activation analysis as applied to the analysis cf geological material has beer siudiel with particular emphasis on methods of reducing or eliminating analytical errors. The neutron flux gradients in the reactor irradiation facilities used were found to introduce errors of up to 20%. The use of iron foils to monitor both the thermal and fast neutron flux received by individual samples has been shown to reduce iiradiation errors to approximately 1%. The contribution of epithermal neutron resonances to (n, >’ ) reaction cross sections has been recognised. Estimated epithermal neutron flux factors have been shown to reduce the associated errors by as much as 7%.

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Gallagher, Shaun. "Geology, Geochemistry and Geochronology of the East Bay Gold Trend, Red Lake, Ontario, Canada." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/18726.

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The Red Lake greenstone belt is considered to be one of Canada’s premier gold producing regions with the Red Lake Gold Mines having produced >24 million ounces of gold to date. The East Bay Trend is a large structural corridor that parallels the East Bay of Red Lake, Ontario and is interpreted to be a manifestation of the regional D1 structure that crosscuts this complexly folded greenstone belt. The southernmost 8 km of this corridor is host to a variety of small gold deposits that demonstrate an assortment of mineralization styles. This study aims to: (1) better define veining styles and characterize the mineralizing fluids using petrography, fluid inclusions, geochronology and stable isotopes, (2) compare barren and auriferous veins from deposits along the East Bay Trend, and (3) compare the fluid history of the East Bay Trend to the Campbell-Red Lake gold deposit to determine the gold potential along this trend.

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Brown, Raylan Talbot. "The petrology and geochemistry of the Merensky reef in the Rustenburg area." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/4948.

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Four Merensky reef underground exposures of different reef thickness, representative of the lithological variations exposed in mining, have been drilled and mapped. The relationship of the Merensky reef to the underlying rocks is paraconformable, and a broad-based definition of the highly variable Merensky reef, on the basis of detailed mine-wide mapping, is presented. Fifty two whole-rock samples from one drill intersection were analysed for major and trace elements by X-Ray Fluorescence spectrometry, and for platinum-group elements (PGE) by Neutron Activation analysis. The remaining three drill intersections were analysed for trace elements, and for PGE in one instance. Orthopyroxene and plagioclase mineral separates from one intersection were analysed for major elements by XRF, and the mineral compositions determined. The results of the whole-rock and silicate mineral chemistry are presented and discussed. Whole-rock geochemistry is controlled by modal composition, as are most trace elements. Incompatible elements such as Nb, Zr, Ba, Y and Rb occur in elevated abundances in the feldspathic pyroxenites and show systematic low-correlation relationships with Cu, Ni, Sand the PGE. These patterns are ascribed to the pore space competition between incompatible element enriched silicate melt and sulphide melt. The PGE are systematically associated with the base metal sulphide elements, with some localised decoupling, with Pd and Au showing the greatest chalcophile nature. The other PGE are highly correlated. Deviations in the geochemistry relative to the mode are analysed and discussed. Orthopyroxene and plagioclase mineral compositions consistently define three-way lithological associations, demonstrating limited geochemical relationship between the lithologies. These lithologies represent the footwall and hangingwall norites/anorthosites and the Merensky reef/Merensky pyroxenite sequence. The Merensky reef pegmatoid and the overlying Merensky pyroxenite have more evolved Mg# and Ca# than the norite or anorthosite. Ni in orthopyroxene correlates with whole-rock Ni, providing evidence of re-equilibration. A systematic relationship exists between plagioclase and orthopyroxene mineral compositions, with Ti in both phases defining primary and re-equilibrated trends. Apart from the elevated PGE abundances in the Merensky reef, the Merensky reef and overlying Merensky pyroxenite are geochemically indistinguishable. Certain evolved element distribution patterns coincide with the zone of elevated PGE, Cu and Ni abundances. Abundant geochemical evidence is consistent with late-stage in situ hydromagmatic alteration and modification to the Merensky reef, and in part, the Merensky pyroxenite. In contrast, the texturally similar footwall and hangingwall norites show very little evidence of hydromagmatic effects, where magmatic and submagmatic processes are well preserved. The whole-rock and mineral geochemistry defines and characterises the Merensky succession and provides certain constraints for petrogenetic modelling. A multi-stage process is envisaged for the petrogenesis and evolution of the Merensky succession, involving, 1) a magmatic stage, 2) a submagmatic stage, and 3) a hydromagmatic stage.
Thesis (M.Sc.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1994.

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