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Sep 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993gecoa..57.4301r&link_type=abstract
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 57, Issue 17, pp.4301-4310
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The osmium concentration and isotopic composition of metalliferous sediments from the East Pacific Rise (EPR) and Bauer Basin have been determined. 187 Os / 186 Os ratios range from 7.9 to 8.6, with EPR samples between 8.4 and 8.6, and Bauer Basin samples between 7.9 and 8.2. The osmium isotopic composition of EPR samples is indistinguishable from the inferred osmium isotopic composition of seawater, requiring that nearly all the osmium in these sediments is hydrogenous in origin. This result is used to place broad constraints on the behavior of osmium in ridge crest hydrothermal systems. While Bauer Basin samples also contain predominantly hydrogenous osmium, an additional source of osmium with low 187 Os / 186 Os is required to account for the lower measured ratios. Calculation of total osmium burial fluxes in the Bauer Basin show that the background flux of cosmic osmium is adequate to produce the observed depression in Bauer Basin 187 Os / 186 Os ratios. Burial flux calculations also suggest that metalliferous sediment deposition is a significant sink in the marine osmium cycle.
McMurtry Gary M.
Ravizza Greg
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