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Carbon isotopic compositions of pore and matrix carbonates in carbonate nodules, and origin of carbonate formation

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Liu, L. [Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences] Yin, Qiuzhen [UCL] Wu, H.B. [Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences] Guo, Z.T. [Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences]

Carbon isotopes of pedogenic carbonate are often used to study paleoenvironments, but the existence of detrital carbonate changes the carbon isotopic composition. To develop an experimental method to determine existence of detrital carbonate in carbonate nodules, and to avoid it during isotope analysis, 23 pedogenic carbonate nodules in Miocene loess from the Loess Plateau of China were studied through micromorphology and carbon isotope analysis. The difference in carbon isotopic composition between matrix carbonate (B) and pore carbonate (A) (delta C-13((B-A))) ranges from 0.27aEuro degrees to 0.44aEuro degrees in nodules containing detrital carbonate and -0.16aEuro degrees to 0.13aEuro degrees in nodules where detrital carbonate is absent. The latter is within measurement error, but the former is beyond it. Here we propose an isotopic approach to determine if nodules contain detrital carbonate: if delta C-13((B-A)) is within the measurement error, the nodules do not contain detrital carbonate, and vice versa. We suggest that it is better to analyze pore carbonate instead of matrix carbonate when using carbon isotope of carbonate nodules to reconstruct paleoenvironments.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2010
Language Anglais
Journal information "Chinese Science Bulletin" - Vol. 55, no. 26, p. 2926-2929 (2010)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Science China Press (Beijing)
issn 1001-6538
e-issn 1861-9541
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate
Keywords carbonate nodule ; pedogenic carbonate ; detrital carbonate ; carbon isotope
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Bibliographic reference Liu, L. ; Yin, Qiuzhen ; Wu, H.B. ; Guo, Z.T.. Carbon isotopic compositions of pore and matrix carbonates in carbonate nodules, and origin of carbonate formation. In: Chinese Science Bulletin, Vol. 55, no. 26, p. 2926-2929 (2010)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/34380