Experimental and natural early diagenetic mobility of Sr and Mg in biogenic carbonates

Details Experimental and natural early diagenetic mobility of Sr and Mg in biogenic carbonates Experimental and natural early diagenetic mobility of Sr and Mg in biogenic carbonates

Dec 1977

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977gecoa..41.1731w&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 41, Issue 12, pp.1731-1737

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Ammonium acetate dissolution experiments were performed on shell material of the modern bivalves, Crassostrea virginica (calcite) and Mercenaria mercenaria (aragonite). Their purpose was to determine the order of preferential dissolution of Sr, Mg and Ca; these results subsequently were compared with Sr, Mg and Ca data from other Recent as well as ancient mollusks. Results from these experiments suggest the following relative order of abundance of readily exchangeable Mg and Sr in biogenic carbonates: Mg(arag) > Mg(calc) > Sr(calc) > Sr(arag). It is apparent that incongruent dissolution of minerals with different solubilities cannot entirely explain the observed dissolution patterns for Sr, Mg and Ca in these biogenic carbonates. Secular changes in whole shell Mg and Sr concentrations for Recent and unrecrystallized fossil mollusks suggest an order of "ionic mobility" in diagenesis identical to the order of abundance for readily exchangeable ions found in the NH 4 Ac dissolution experiments. It is concluded that this "ionic mobility" is due to a post mortem , early diagenetic (pre-recrystallization) approach to equilibrium with the surrounding chemical environment.

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