Early diagenesis in sediments from the eastern equatorial Pacific, I. Pore water nutrient and carbonate results

Details Early diagenesis in sediments from the eastern equatorial Pacific, I. Pore water nutrient and carbonate results Early diagenesis in sediments from the eastern equatorial Pacific, I. Pore water nutrient and carbonate results

Aug 1980

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Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 49, Issue 1, p. 57-80.

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Interstitial waters were extracted from cores at three locations in the eastern equatorial Pacific and analyzed for nutrients, dissolved carbonate species, Mn and Fe. From the depth variation in pore water chemistry, we infer that organic matter oxidation reactions occur with depth in the following sequence: O2 reduction, NO3- and MnO2 reduction, and then ferric iron reduction. From NO3- results we infer that O2 is largely or totally consumed within the top few centimeters of sediment. NO3- is completely reduced at a sediment depth of 20 cm at a site near the crest of the East Pacific Rise, but is preserved at levels of 20-30 μmol/kg at 40 cm depth at a Guatemala Basin site.
We have calculated the alkalinity for pore water samples assuming ions diffuse according to relative ionic diffusion coefficients, that the stoichiometry of organic matter oxidation reactions is that of ``Redfield'' organic matter, and that the pore waters are saturated throughout with respect to CaCO3. The measured alkalinity increase is only about half of the predicted value. The difference is probably a result of either enhanced mixing of the pore water in the top few centimeters of sediments by biological or physical processes, or the occurrence of an inorganic reaction which consumes alkalinity.
At depths of oxygen and nitrate reduction in the sediments, the ion concentration product of CaCO3 is the same, within the analytical error, as the solubility product of Ingle et al. [34] at 1 atm and 4°C. This result indicates CaCO3 resaturation on pressure change during coring. Where pore water Mn concentrations become measurable, the ion concentration product increases, indicating either supersaturation with respect to calcite or that another phase is controlling the carbonate solubility.

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