Shuaiyi Lu , Pan Jiang , Lianghan Cong , Tianqi Zheng , Yankai Hao , Xiaoshu Lü
{"title":"Review of geochemical processes in CCUS: Mechanisms, processes, and implications","authors":"Shuaiyi Lu , Pan Jiang , Lianghan Cong , Tianqi Zheng , Yankai Hao , Xiaoshu Lü","doi":"10.1016/j.gr.2025.05.023","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gr.2025.05.023","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The emission of greenhouse gases has resulted in the deterioration of the global climate, leading nations worldwide to adopt measures to mitigate the environmental impact of carbon emissions. Carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) is an emerging large-scale greenhouse gas emission reduction technology with the potential to become an important means of mitigating the greenhouse effect in the future. However, the geochemical reactions accompanying CCUS implementation critically impact system stability and the environment. This review systematically examines the geochemical reaction mechanisms in CCUS reservoirs, including clastic rock, claystone, carbonate rock, igneous rock, and coal, and their effects and risks on CO<sub>2</sub> sequestration systems. It has been demonstrated that geochemical reactions are prevalent in various types of CCUS, including mineral dissolution, CO<sub>2</sub> mineralization, and adsorption of CO<sub>2</sub> by rocks. These reactions may alter rock strength, caprock sealing integrity, fracture development, and groundwater ion concentrations, influencing sequestration outcomes. The study highlights challenges in CCUS geochemical research and proposes future directions. By enhancing understanding of reaction processes and risks, this work provides insights for CCUS operation, monitoring, and research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12761,"journal":{"name":"Gondwana Research","volume":"146 ","pages":"Pages 200-215"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144337699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gondwana Research: Two decades of publishing partnership","authors":"Andrea Festa, Darren Lingley","doi":"10.1016/j.gr.2025.06.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2025.06.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12761,"journal":{"name":"Gondwana Research","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144337698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luke Tylkowski , Caroline Tiddy , David Giles , Ross Cayley , Adrienne Brotodewo , Robert Thorne , Wessley Edgar
{"title":"Investigating detrital apatite from the Castlemaine Group, central Victoria, to unravel sources and multi-cycle sedimentation","authors":"Luke Tylkowski , Caroline Tiddy , David Giles , Ross Cayley , Adrienne Brotodewo , Robert Thorne , Wessley Edgar","doi":"10.1016/j.gr.2025.05.019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gr.2025.05.019","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Detrital mineral studies have been largely undertaken using zircon, a resilient mineral to weathering, that accumulates in sediments through multiple cycles of sedimentation preserving information from early cratons and provinces. The greater susceptibility of apatite to weathering offers a specific advantage to apatite geochemistry and geochronology over zircon: an insight into first-cycle sedimentation. Such insight is critical in reconstructing the provenance history of ancient sediment successions potentially sourced from a diversity of terranes, such as the Castlemaine Group in the Lachlan Fold Belt, southeastern Australia. This kilometres-thick deep marine turbidite succession was deposited along the eastern edge of Gondwana in the Ordovician. It has many potential sources throughout the supercontinent including nearby in Australia, further afield in Antarctica, and from other former Gondwana constituents including Africa. Deep diamond drill core near the Fosterville deposit in central Victoria, southeastern mainland Australia, intersects large sequences of the Ordovician turbidite succession. The combined geochemistry and U-Pb geochronology of detrital apatite grains from the Fosterville drill core by LA-ICP-MS allows for not only the classification of the source lithology through its rare earth element (REE), Sr and Y chemistry but also apatite U-Pb age. The majority of igneous and metamorphic apatite grains are aged between 580–480 Ma and are likely to be sourced from the nearby Adelaide Rift Complex, Delamerian Orogen and East Antarctica Ross Orogen. Older apatite linked to Grenvillian (1300–900 Ma), Rodinian Rifting (850–650 Ma) and Early Pan-African events (650–580 Ma) are significantly smaller populations compared to previously published U-Pb zircon data from the Castlemaine Group, indicating that these older populations were likely inherited through multiple sedimentation cycles with greater loss of apatite versus zircon. We conclude that although a direct source from East Antarctica to supply sediment of this age and older remains possible, a proximal source terrane comprised of rocks displaying inherited multi-cycle provenance mixed with first-cycle apatite derived from Delamerian/Ross Orogen igneous and metamorphic events is most likely.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12761,"journal":{"name":"Gondwana Research","volume":"146 ","pages":"Pages 146-162"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144337700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ilmo T. Kukkonen , Barry Kohn , Kalle Kirsimäe , Argo Jõeleht , Ling Chung , Malcolm McMillan , Samuel Boone , Andy Gleadow
{"title":"Phanerozoic evolution of Fennoscandia: Evidence from apatite fission track, fluid flow and geodynamic data in Finland and Estonia","authors":"Ilmo T. Kukkonen , Barry Kohn , Kalle Kirsimäe , Argo Jõeleht , Ling Chung , Malcolm McMillan , Samuel Boone , Andy Gleadow","doi":"10.1016/j.gr.2025.05.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gr.2025.05.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>New apatite fission track (AFT) data from Estonia together with previously published data from Finland, all from crystalline basement drill core, constrain the Phanerozoic thermal history. Models show a consistent pattern of heating from Cambrian to end-Carboniferous, with peak paleotemperatures of 60 ± 10 °C when sediment cover was ∼ 0.5 km thicker in the Baltic Paleobasin and ∼ 1.5 km over Precambrian basement in Finland. Prior to the Phanerozoic, the Fennoscandia basement was exhumed to a peneplain by late Neoproterozoic. The evolution of Phanerozoic sedimentary cover can be linked to (1) the Scandinavian Silurian–Devonian Caledonian orogeny, (2) foreland basin and foreland uplift bulge development, (3) pre-drift extension and lithospheric uplift from Permo-Triassic to Cretaceous, and (4) Cenozoic rift-phase uplift following North Atlantic opening at ∼ 54 Ma. In the Devonian, Caledonian mountains attained elevations of ∼ 7–8 km, causing significant lithospheric elastic flexure resulting in a 6–7 km deep foreland basin and ∼ 500 m of foreland bulge uplift affecting Fennoscandia and the Baltic Paleobasin. The flexure relaxed and the foredeep basin was partly inverted as the mountain range exhumed and eroded during late orogenic collapse (∼400 Ma). The present shield area in Finland may have outcropped for a short time in the Devonian during the Caledonian forebulge phase but was covered shortly thereafter with sediments. The cover persisted until the final exhumation of Finland in the Mesozoic – Cenozoic. Some AFT data indicate hydrothermal disturbance by expulsion of hot fluids from the Caledonian thrust belt into the unconsolidated basal Cambrian sediments and crystalline basement. This craton-wide flow resulted in the precipitation of Devonian calcite-fluorite-Pb-Zn veins, Mississippi Valley type Pb-Zn deposits in the Swedish Caledonian front and dolomitic alteration of Ordovician-Silurian limestones in Estonia. Moreover, our model contributes to the interpretation of the evolution of topography in Norway and distribution of deep biosphere in Fennoscandia.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12761,"journal":{"name":"Gondwana Research","volume":"146 ","pages":"Pages 74-92"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144307611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yu-Jin Zhang , Bing-Cai Liu , De-Jun Zhang , Kai Wang , Hong-He Xu
{"title":"Paleogeography of microcontinents in northeastern China in view of macroplant Leclercqia (Lycopsida) records during Middle to Late Devonian","authors":"Yu-Jin Zhang , Bing-Cai Liu , De-Jun Zhang , Kai Wang , Hong-He Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.gr.2025.06.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gr.2025.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Paleogeography of the microcontinents in northeastern China is essential to understanding tectonic and dynamic evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). Studies using a variety of scientific and technical means have been carried out on materials ranging from the Late Neoproterozoic to the early Mesozoic of the CAOB. However, evidence from macroplant fossils is rare, and its Devonian-related paleogeography issues await details. In this study, we infer the paleogeography of several microcontinents in NE China based on macroplant fossil records from Middle to Late Devonian. A widely-distributed herbaceous lycopsid macroplant, <em>Leclercqia complexa</em>, is newly identified through re-examinations to specimens collected in the 1980 s from the Middle Devonian of Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, NE China, which paleogeographically belongs to the Songliao-Xilinhot microcontinent. <em>Leclercqia</em>, <em>Archaeopteris</em> and <em>Barsassia</em> macroplants are evidently terrestrial and of inter-land dispersal, and their occurrence data provide distinct evidence for reconstructing relative position between paleo-terranes. Our integrated paleobotanical analysis suggests that the Songliao-Xilinhot and Jiamusi microcontinents were in close proximity to Xing’an, West Junggar, and Kazakhstan blocks other than the North China Craton (NCC) during Middle to Late Devonian. The NCC is the only terrane without the macroplant <em>Leclercqia</em> occurrence and it might be a huge highland where almost all deposits and fossil records were eroded, or an isolated island of plant dispersal in the open Panthalassic ocean during the Devonian Period.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12761,"journal":{"name":"Gondwana Research","volume":"146 ","pages":"Pages 66-73"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144280692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandre Assemat , Sylvain Adnet , Jeremy E. Martin
{"title":"Reconstructing the trophic structure of Maastrichtian elasmobranch communities in Morocco using calcium isotopes","authors":"Alexandre Assemat , Sylvain Adnet , Jeremy E. Martin","doi":"10.1016/j.gr.2025.05.021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gr.2025.05.021","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The diversification of elasmobranchs through time is accompanied by an incredible diversity of feeding ecologies reflecting every trophic position and placing elasmobranchs as cornerstone organisms of the marine food webs. Quantifying their trophic ecology in the fossil record brings precious insights about their successes and the evolution of trophic structure through deep time. Here we quantitatively describe the trophic organization of a rich Maastrichtian elasmobranch assemblage from Morocco presenting taxa from all the trophic levels using the calcium isotopes of their teeth. We highlight overall similarities with modern trophic food webs presenting batomorphs at the lower trophic levels including the first estimate of diet in the extinct suborder of sclerorhynchid and large selachimorphs as apex predators. Moreover, <em>δ</em><sup>44/42</sup>Ca values in <em>Squalicorax pristodontus</em> reveal peculiar feeding behavior underlining that apex elasmobranchs were already divided into two categories including large piscivorous predators and tetrapod feeders.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12761,"journal":{"name":"Gondwana Research","volume":"146 ","pages":"Pages 228-234"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144304886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paleoproterozoic to Cambro-Ordovician crustal evolution in the northern Indian margin: Evidence from whole-rock geochemical, zircon U–Pb, Hf and O isotope signatures in the granitoids of Arunachal Himalaya, Northeast India","authors":"Bidyananda Maibam , Waikhom Nongdon , Pankaj Kumar , Yoann Gréau , Jasper Berndt , Stephen Foley , Atul Kumar Singh , Deeksha Khandelwal","doi":"10.1016/j.gr.2025.05.022","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gr.2025.05.022","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The northern margin of the Indian continental plate had undergone multiple tectonic events associated with the supercontinent assemblies and breakups before the Cenozoic collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates. Whole-rock geochemical, zircon U–Pb geochronology, Lu–Hf and O isotopic study of the granites and granite gneisses exposed in the west Kameng and Subansiri regions of Arunachal Himalaya has been carried out to understand the crustal evolution of the northern Indian margin during the Paleoproterozoic to Cambro-Ordovician. Bomdila granite gneisses of the west Kameng yielded zircon U–Pb ages of 1827 ± 24 Ma and 1753 ± 8 Ma, with εHf values ranging from –7.3 to +1.0 and δ<sup>18</sup>O values of 6.38–10.44 ‰, indicating a heterogeneous source derived from recycled crust and juvenile components with a significant incorporation of sediments. Geochemical signatures indicate a continental arc setting during the Columbia assembly. Tonian magmatism in the Dirang area (879–799 Ma) and the Ziro Valley (886 ± 13 Ma) of Subansiri area represent the eastern Himalayan vestiges of the Tonian crust associated with the Rodinia assembly. Bomdila granite yielded a younger emplacement age of 517 ± 4 Ma with εHf values between –9.3 to +0.4, indicating mixed sources with dominant recycled crustal and minor juvenile components. Ziro granite (509 ± 26 Ma) and Potin granite gneiss (520 ± 3 Ma) of Subansiri area yielded subchondritic εHf values of –9.6 to –6.6 and –16.8 to –3.6 respectively, indicating a recycled crustal-derived heterogeneous source. The zircons of the Bomdila granite, Ziro granite, and Potin granite gneiss show similar ranges of δ<sup>18</sup>O values: 6.34–8.78 ‰, 6.60–9.14 ‰ and 6.63–9.80 ‰ respectively, suggesting a moderate to high incorporation of sediments in the generation of these rocks during the widespread Cambro-Ordovician magmatism in the northern margin of India.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12761,"journal":{"name":"Gondwana Research","volume":"146 ","pages":"Pages 107-129"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144304885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yingchun Wang , Xiaocheng Zhou , Jiao Tian , Pengfei Chen , Miao He , Yucong Yan , Bingyu Yao , Zhongping Li , Chunhui Cao , Hikaru Iwamori
{"title":"Divergent subduction of a tearing slab controls deep carbon recycling efficiency: Helium and carbon isotopic evidence from the southeast Tibetan Plateau","authors":"Yingchun Wang , Xiaocheng Zhou , Jiao Tian , Pengfei Chen , Miao He , Yucong Yan , Bingyu Yao , Zhongping Li , Chunhui Cao , Hikaru Iwamori","doi":"10.1016/j.gr.2025.06.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gr.2025.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Variations of helium isotopic compositions across tectonic belts and at regional scales provide critical insights into crust–mantle interactions and the transport of heat and volatiles from the Earth’s interior. In this study, we report geochemical data from 26 thermal springs, including 51 newly analyzed samples, and integrate a broader dataset comprising 854 samples from 350 sites distributed along the Xianshuihe and Red River fault zones of southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Distinct helium isotopic anomalies and heterogeneous contributions of recycled carbon sourced from altered oceanic crust (AOC) were identified using combined analyses of <sup>3</sup>He/<sup>4</sup>He ratios and δ<sup>13</sup>C–CO<sub>2</sub> signatures, supported by an updated helium–carbon coupling model. Clear spatial contrasts were observed across the helium boundary zone (HBZ), with δ<sup>13</sup>C–CO<sub>2</sub> and CO<sub>2</sub>/<sup>3</sup>He ratios revealing marked differences between the northwestern and southeastern sectors. The mantle-derived helium-3 flux reaches approximately 1.7 × 10<sup>4</sup> atoms m<sup>−2</sup> s<sup>−1</sup> in the northwest, compared with 1.04 × 10<sup>4</sup> atoms m<sup>−2</sup> s<sup>−1</sup> in the southeast. These disparities align closely with geophysical evidence indicating the presence of a slab tear in the Indian lithosphere beneath the Lijiang–Xiaojinhe fault (LXF). In addition, a decarbonation boundary linked to slab subduction was delineated near 26°N with higher recycled carbon fluxes in the northwest (∼35 %) than those in the southeast (∼22 %). This asymmetry is attributed to variations of subduction depth and angle associated with tearing of the Indian slab. The results of this study highlight the pivotal role of slab tearing and divergent subduction processes in modulating the efficiency and spatial heterogeneity of deep carbon recycling along convergent plate margins.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12761,"journal":{"name":"Gondwana Research","volume":"146 ","pages":"Pages 93-106"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144304887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Molybdenum isotope records of the Chilpi Group, Bastar Craton, India: Implications on atmospheric and shallow-seawater oxygen content in the Orosirian period","authors":"Prasanta Kumar Mishra , Sarada Prasad Mohanty , Kosuke T. Goto , Susanta Kumar Mishra","doi":"10.1016/j.gr.2025.05.020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gr.2025.05.020","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Chilpi Group (2050 – 1850 Ma), central India, preserves iron formations of the Paleoproterozoic Era. The <em>P</em>O<sub>2</sub> value of 10<sup>-3</sup> – 10<sup>-5</sup> times the present atmospheric level (PAL) during deposition of the Chilpi Group was reported from the analyses of the geothermometry and oxygen fugacity variations using the mineral chemistry of the rare association of magnetite-greenalite-cronstedtite-siderite in the iron-rich rocks. To validate the results obtained from the mineral chemistry, and to understand the evolution of ocean redox conditions and low <em>P</em>O<sub>2</sub> value, we measured the Mo concentration and Mo isotope data of iron-formation samples. The analytical results of <em>δ</em><sup>98/95</sup>Mo<sub>NIST</sub> values have a range from –0.2 to 1.2 ‰, similar to the sediments deposited below anoxic (ferruginous – non-euxinic) water columns. The <em>δ</em><sup>98/95</sup>Mo<sub>NIST</sub> data calculated for adsorption removal of Mo from the modern seawater value of 2.09 ‰ show a negative offset (Δ <sup>98/95</sup>Mo) of –0.7 ‰ for ferrihydrite adsorption model and –0.97 ‰ for magnetite adsorption model. The range of Δ <sup>98/95</sup>Mo value of the Chilpi iron-formations is between –0.6 ‰ of 2.5 Ga iron-formations and –1.2 ‰ of 1.85 Ga iron-formations. A comparable range of <em>δ</em><sup>98/95</sup>Mo<sub>NIST</sub> (–0.3 to 1.8 ‰) and Δ <sup>98/95</sup>Mo of –0.8 ‰ for ferrihydrite adsorption model for the iron-formations of the Animikie Basin, Lake Superior region, corroborate the observations. The results indicate a low value of the paleo-seawater (<em>δ</em><sup>98/95</sup>Mo<sub>NIST</sub> = 1.12 ‰) during the Orosirian Period, interpreted to be the result of a low oxygen content of the atmosphere and shallow sea and inefficient Mo-removal from the seawater. The lowered paleoproductivity due to the low level of atmospheric oxygen (between 10<sup>–3</sup> and 10<sup>–5</sup> PAL) and a reduced content of Mo, a bio-essential element, in seawater during the late Paleoproterozoic Era might have an impeding effect on the development of eukaryotes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12761,"journal":{"name":"Gondwana Research","volume":"146 ","pages":"Pages 39-53"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144280689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}