Rare earth elements in the pore waters of reducing nearshore sediments

Details Rare earth elements in the pore waters of reducing nearshore sediments Rare earth elements in the pore waters of reducing nearshore sediments

Apr 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987e%26psl..82..280e&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 82, Issue 3-4, p. 280-288.

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The REE are mobile during early diagenesis in reducing nearshore sediments of Buzzards Bay leading to greatly enhanced concentrations in pore waters, e.g. 815 pmol kg-1 Nd and 1910 pmol kg-1 Ce within 30 cm of the sediment-seawater interface, about 10-50 times local seawater values. Two principal diagenetic reactions have been identified. Preferential Ce enrichment (positive Ce anomalies) and preferential heavy REE enrichment (light REE removal) in the pore waters is associated with redox cycling of Fe and Mn within the upper few centimeters of the sediment. Release of REE, without fractionation, from sediments and addition to pore waters occurs deeper within the sediment column. The impact on the bulk sediment chemistry is undetectable but the porewater gradients imply that there are significant dissolved REE fluxes, both internal to the sediment system and across the sediment-seawater interface.

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