Accumulation history of the metalliferous and ore-bearing sediments of the Krasnov hydrothermal field (MAR 16°38′N) for last 80 Ka: Part II

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 246-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Yu. Rusakov ◽  
T. G. Kuzmina ◽  
I. A. Roshchina ◽  
V. V. Shilov
2021 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 100748
Author(s):  
Li Liu ◽  
Shengli Yang ◽  
Ting Cheng ◽  
Xiaojing Liu ◽  
Yuanlong Luo ◽  
...  

1997 ◽  
Vol 506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kari Rasilainen ◽  
Juhani Suksi ◽  
Antero Lindberg

Extended AbstractGeological formations are being considered as host media for nuclear waste disposal. The occurrence of natural U in rocks provides a possibility to test the radionuclide migration models used in safety studies of the disposal over comparable time periods. Here we study U accumulation into boulders as a process analogue for matrix diffusion; the boulders were found in glacial till in Hämeenlinna, southern Finland. Based on the glacial history of the site, matrix diffusion simulations, and independent U-series disequilibria (USD) dating, the U accumulation was interpreted to originate from the end stage of the latest glaciation, i.e. the system age is about 10 000 years1,2. The known time scale offers a rare opportunity for quantitative model testing; normally the time scale is difficult to determine for a single process in a natural analogue.The U accumulation was earlier1,2 interpreted to be due to matrix diffusion and sorption. The postulated accumulation history consists of short in-diffusion and out-diffusion stages, as well as a longer chain decay stage. The in-diffusion was caused by U-rich waters discharging on the boulders at the end stage of the glaciation. The subsequent partial out-diffusion represents the period the boulders were temporarily submerged in the Yoldia sea during the early stage of the Baltic Sea. The final isolated radioactive chain decay stage began when the boulders, and their surroundings, rose above the sea level due to land uplift.In this paper we report the first radiochemical results of a new larger boulder from the same area as the one studied earlier1; qualitatively, also the U distribution appears to be the same. Due to the larger dimensions, we can sample the inner zone of the boulder which matrix diffusion can not have reached within the postulated time, i.e. the state of the boulder before the U accumulation. The large amount of sample material containing almost only the recently accumulated U provides an opportunity to experimentally approach the kinetics of U fixation in situ. Understanding the long-term U fixation is essential in natural analogue studies, because the matrix diffusion model only has fast reversible adsorption (based on Kd) as the fixation process. Attempts to separate and quantify sorbed U in natural analogues have been reported elsewhere3.


2017 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 35-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander J. Wright ◽  
Robin J. Edwards ◽  
Orson van de Plassche ◽  
Maarten Blaauw ◽  
Andrew C. Parnell ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 3821-3845 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Martín ◽  
R. Mulvaney ◽  
G. H. Gudmundsson ◽  
H. Corr

Abstract. Ice cores contain a record of snow precipitation that includes information about past atmospheric circulation and mass imbalance in the polar regions. We present a novel adjoint method to reconstruct a climatic record by both optimally dating an ice-core and deriving from it a detailed accumulation history. The motivation of our work is the recent application of phase sensitive radar which measures the vertical velocity of an ice column. The velocity is dependent on the history of subsequent snow accumulation, compaction and compression; and in our inverse formulation of this problem, measured vertical velocity profiles can be utilized directly thereby reducing the uncertainty introduced by ice flow modelling. We first apply our method to synthetic data in order to study its capability and the effect of noise and gaps in the data on retrieved accumulation history. The method is then applied to the ice core retrieved from James Ross Island, Antarctica. We show that the method is robust and that the results depend on quality of the age-depth observations and the derived flow regime around the core site. The method facilitates the incorporation of increasing detail provided by ice-core analysis together with observed full-depth velocity in order to construct a complete climatic record of the polar regions.


1994 ◽  
Vol 125 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 105-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.M. McMurtry ◽  
D.L. VonderHaar ◽  
A. Eisenhauer ◽  
J.J. Mahoney ◽  
H.-W. Yeh

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