scholarly journals Most natural-forming calcites precipitate at isotopic equilibrium

Author(s):  
Yuan jie

Abstract Based on thermodynamic equilibrium isotope fractionation theory, this letter reasonably understands the clumping 13C-18O (Δ47 ), as well as carbon and oxygen isotope fractionation in calcites with extremely slow-growing rates from Devils Hole and Laghetto Basso (Corchia Cave) at atomic level with solid physical precipitation models and quantum-mechanical backgrounds. It is found that most calcites in nature precipitate in at equilibrium.

1979 ◽  
Vol 43 (327) ◽  
pp. 405-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Matthews ◽  
Robert D. Beckinsale ◽  
John J. Durham

SummaryOxygen isotope fractionation between rutile and water has been studied from 300 °C to 700 °C, PH2O = 1 kb, using aqueous oxidation of titanium metal as the equilibration reaction. The mechanism of rutile formation (which is critical to the assessment of isotopic equilibrium) is an ‘armouring’ reaction in which rutile grows around grains of titanium metal by solution-precipitation processes. Mean fractionation factors expressed as 103 In αTiO2-H2O obtained in the present study are:−6.20±0.23‰ at 304±5 °C−6.64±0.27‰ at 405±6 °C−6.11±0.16%. at 508±6 °C−4.45±0.28%. at 608±6 °C−3.38±0.15%. at 698±6 °C.These data agree with those obtained at temperatures above 500 °C by Addy and Garlick (1974) but do not accord with theoretical predictions by Bottinga and Javoy (1973). A minimum in the calibration curve 103 ln α versus 106T−2 occurs between 300 °C and 500 °C but from 500 °C to 700 °C 18O fractionation between rutile and water may be expressed by the equation:103 ln α = −(4.72±0.40)106T−2+(1.62±0.53).Oxygen isotope analyses of rutile and quartz from metamorphic eclogites and schists from the Tauern Window, Austria, yield isotopic temperatures at about 550 °C in agreement with results obtained on similar rocks from the Sesia Zone (Western Alps, Italy) and elsewhere by other workers. Petrologic studies indicate that the latest metamorphism of the Tauern eclogites reached about 450 °C Thus the measured partitions of 18O between rutile and quartz indicating temperatures around 550 °C have been inherited from an earlier metamorphic event.


2008 ◽  
Vol 72 (19) ◽  
pp. 4687-4698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin F. Owen ◽  
Alan D. Wanamaker ◽  
Scott C. Feindel ◽  
Bernd R. Schöne ◽  
Paul D. Rawson

2013 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 232-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana F.C. Riechelmann ◽  
Michael Deininger ◽  
Denis Scholz ◽  
Sylvia Riechelmann ◽  
Andrea Schröder-Ritzrau ◽  
...  

1975 ◽  
Vol 30 (12) ◽  
pp. 1667-1674
Author(s):  
D. Götz ◽  
K. Heinzinger ◽  
A. Klemm

Abstract The fractionation of the oxygen isotopes in the water collected by stepwise dehydration of CuSO4·5H2O has been measured for the crystallization temperatures 25, 40 and 50 °C. From X-ray and neutron diffraction studies it is known that three different kinds of water, differing in their binding in the crystal, exist in CuSO4 · 5 H2O. On the basis of the results reported here it is concluded that isotopic equilibrium exists between the different kinds of water in the crystal and the mother liquor during the crystallization process. In addition it is shown that on stepwise dehydration the water molecules from the different types of sites can be separated. Consequently, the measurements provide the possibility to determine crystallization temperatures from intracrystalline oxygen isotope fractionation alone. Possible applications in isotope geothermometry are discussed.


1984 ◽  
Vol 277 ◽  
pp. 581 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. D. Langer ◽  
T. E. Graedel ◽  
M. A. Frerking ◽  
P. B. Armentrout

2018 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 127-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Fohlmeister ◽  
Jennifer Arps ◽  
Christoph Spötl ◽  
Andrea Schröder-Ritzrau ◽  
Birgit Plessen ◽  
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