Smectite and fluid budget at Nankai ODP sites derived from cation exchange capacity

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Feb 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004e%26psl.219..129h&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 219, Issue 1-2, p. 129-145.

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Pore fluid chlorinity lower than seawater is often observed in accretionary wedges and one of the possible causes of pore water freshening is the smectite to illite reaction. This reaction occurs during diagenesis in the 80-150°C temperature range. Low chlorinity anomalies observed at the toe of accretionary wedges have thus been interpreted as evidence for lateral fluid migration from inner parts of the wedge and the seismogenic zone. However, temperature conditions in Nankai Trough are locally high enough for the smectite to illite transition to occur in situ. Cation exchange capacity is here used as a proxy for smectite content in the sediment and the amount of interlayer water released during the smectite to illite reaction represents in average 12 water molecules per cation charge. Water and chloride budget calculations show that there is enough smectite to explain the chlorinity anomalies by in situ reactions. The shape of the pore fluid chlorinity profiles can be explained if compaction is also taken into account in the model. Lateral flow is not needed. This argument, based solely on chloride concentration, does not imply that lateral flow is absent. However, previous estimations of lateral fluid fluxes, and of the duration of transient flow events along the décollement, should be reconsidered.

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