Cadmium diagenesis in Laurentian Trough sediments

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Mar 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987gecoa..51..589g&link_type=abstract

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 51, Issue 3, pp.589-596

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The depth distributions of Cd, Mn and Fe in pore water and sediment were determined on three replicate box cores collected at a 325 m deep station in the Laurentian Trough. The results reveal a surface layer in which the content of solid-phase Cd first decreases but then increases sharply with depth. In contrast, Mn decreases regularly over the same depth interval. In the oxygenated zone of this layer, Cd, probably associated with organic matter, is released to the pore water, resulting in concentrations that are more than an order of magnitude higher than in the overlying water column. Some of the dissolved Cd is returned to the water column and some migrates downward and is precipitated at depth. This part of the Cd cycle is virtually complete within the surface layer, the base of which corresponds to the base of the zone of Mn enrichment. In the subsurface layer, solid-phase Cd and Mn show little or no concentration change. However, dissolved Cd, which reaches often non-detectable concentrations (<0.05 nM) in this layer, increases once again deep within the anaerobic zone and attains concentrations even higher than in the surface layer. The presence of dissolved Cd complexes (revealed by 1.5 to 8 fold increases in electrochemically active Cd in pore water following UV-treatment) as well as inconsistent distributions of dissolved and solid-phase Cd, indicate complexities in diagenesis that merit further investigation.

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