Computer Science
Scientific paper
Nov 1978
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978e%26psl..41..265s&link_type=abstract
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 41, Issue 3, p. 265-276.
Computer Science
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A blue-green smectite (iron-rich saponite) and green mica (celadonite) are the dominant sheet silicates in veins within the 10.5 m of basalt cored during DSDP Leg 34, Site 321, in the Nazca plate. Oxygen isotopic analyses of these clays, and associated calcite, indicate a formation temperature of <=25°C. Celadonite contains appreciable Fe2O3, K2O and SiO2, intermediate MgO, and very little Al2O3. Celadonite is commonly associated with goethite and hematite, which suggests that this phase formed by precipitation within a dominantly oxygenated environment of components leached from basalt and provided by seawater. A mass balance estimate indicates that celadonite formation can remove no more than 15% of the K annually transported to the oceans by rivers. In contrast, iron-rich saponite containing significant Al2O3 appears to have precipitated from a non-oxidizing, distinctly alkaline fluid containing a high Na/K ratio relative to unmodified seawater. Seawater-basalt interaction at low temperatures, resulting in the formation of celadonite and smectite may explain chemical gradients observed in interstitial waters of sediments overlying basalts.
Dibble W. E.
Seyfried William E.
Shanks Wayne C.
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