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Detrital zircon and rutile geochronology, geochemistry and provenance of Cambrian sandstones of Iranian Azerbaijan: implications for the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian evolution of the northern Gondwana margin 伊朗阿塞拜疆寒武纪砂岩的碎屑锆石和金红石地质年代、地球化学和产地:对冈瓦纳大陆北缘新元古代-寒武纪演化的影响
IF 2.3 3区 地球科学
International Journal of Earth Sciences Pub Date : 2023-12-27 DOI: 10.1007/s00531-023-02372-9
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Geochemistry and geochronology of the Neyshabur meta-volcanic rocks, Binalood mountains, NE Iran: witnesses of Paleo-Tethys rifting and closure 伊朗东北部 Binalood 山区 Neyshabur 元火山岩的地球化学和地质年代:古泰西断裂和闭合的见证者
IF 2.3 3区 地球科学
International Journal of Earth Sciences Pub Date : 2023-12-22 DOI: 10.1007/s00531-023-02371-w
Hadi Karimi, G. Topuz, Lothar Ratschbacher, Chuanbo Shen, Jianhua Li
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Input and preservation of organic matter in the Upper Permian shale from the Lower Yangtze Platform, South China: evidence from organic and inorganic geochemistry 中国南方长江下游地台上二叠统页岩中有机质的输入和保存:来自有机和无机地球化学的证据
IF 2.3 3区 地球科学
International Journal of Earth Sciences Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.1007/s00531-023-02369-4
{"title":"Input and preservation of organic matter in the Upper Permian shale from the Lower Yangtze Platform, South China: evidence from organic and inorganic geochemistry","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s00531-023-02369-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-023-02369-4","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>During the Late Permian Wuchiapingian–Changhsingian (W–C) transition, significant biotic and environmental changes occurred. These changes had the potential to greatly influence the type, accumulation, and preservation of organic matter within sediments during this period. The Wujiaping Formation, which acts as the contemporaneous heterotopic facie of the Longtan Formation, is regionally found in the Susong–Dongzhi stratigraphic subregion in the Lower Yangtze Platform (LYP). However, the variations in organic matter input and preservation during the Late Permian W–C transition in this specific area have not been comprehensively understood. Consequently, this study involved the collection of Upper Permian Wujiaping and Dalong shale samples in the LYP. Total organic carbon (TOC) content, vitrinite reflectance (<em>R</em><sub><em>o</em></sub>), maceral compositions, carbon isotope composition of kerogen, as well as the major and trace elements in the shale samples were all measured in this study. The results of <em>R</em><sub><em>o</em></sub> analysis indicate that the maturity levels of shale derived from the Dalong and Wujiaping Formations exhibit maturity levels exceeding 2%, which indicates an over-mature stage. The maceral compositions and carbon isotope analysis of kerogen reveal that the predominant source of organic matter within the Dalong shale is attributed to algal organism. Conversely, the organic matter in the Wujiaping shale primarily comes from higher plants. The major and trace element distributions provide insights into the depositional conditions of the Upper Permian shale, and significant variations in organic matter input and preservation are evident during the Late Permian W–C transition. The findings indicate that the Wujiaping Formation was characterized by a low paleo-productivity, high terrestrial influx intensity, low paleo-salinity, and a pronounced restricted setting under oxic conditions. However, the Dalong Formation is deposited under an anoxic environment, characterized by high paleo-productivity and paleo-salinity, limited terrestrial influx intensity, and increasing upwelling. In addition, the water mass restriction weakened within the Dalong Formation, attributable to a gradual rise in sea level. The shift of organic matter input and preservation was instigated by the persistent regional rise in the sea level during the Late Permian period. In summary, the great input and favorable preservation conditions of organic matter observed in the Dalong shale indicates a promising potential for shale gas exploration.</p> <span> <h3>Graphical abstract</h3> <p> <span> <span> <img alt=\"\" src=\"https://static-content.springer.com/image/MediaObjects/531_2023_2369_Figa_HTML.png\"/> </span> </span></p> </span>","PeriodicalId":13845,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Earth Sciences","volume":"182 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138684231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Quantifying fluid pressure events using shallow crustal veins 利用浅层地壳脉络量化流体压力事件
IF 2.3 3区 地球科学
International Journal of Earth Sciences Pub Date : 2023-12-11 DOI: 10.1007/s00531-023-02362-x
Sreyashi Bhowmick, S. Biswas, Tridibes Mondal
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Strontium isotope compositions of Late Permian evaporites from the northernmost Thuringian Basin (Germany) indicate continental influence on the marine Zechstein Sea 德国图林根盆地最北端晚二叠世蒸发岩的锶同位素组成表明大陆对海相泽赫施坦因海的影响
IF 2.3 3区 地球科学
International Journal of Earth Sciences Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI: 10.1007/s00531-023-02365-8
A. Käßner, M. Tichomirowa, R. Tandler, J. Ziebell
{"title":"Strontium isotope compositions of Late Permian evaporites from the northernmost Thuringian Basin (Germany) indicate continental influence on the marine Zechstein Sea","authors":"A. Käßner, M. Tichomirowa, R. Tandler, J. Ziebell","doi":"10.1007/s00531-023-02365-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-023-02365-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the Late Permian Zechstein Sea of Central Europe, up to 2000 m of evaporitic rocks were deposited in at least four consecutive cycles. The age of these evaporitic rocks could not yet be precisely determined, because they are virtually fossil-free and do not contain radiometrically datable volcanic layers. A chemostratigraphic age of the succession can be determined by comparing <sup>87</sup>Sr/<sup>86</sup>Sr ratios of marine gypsum and anhydrite to the worldwide marine strontium evolution curve. Unfortunately, published <sup>87</sup>Sr/<sup>86</sup>Sr data of the Zechstein succession are characterized by frequent outliers towards higher ratios, making an age assignment challenging. The scatter in <sup>87</sup>Sr/<sup>86</sup>Sr ratios might be induced by different processes like the contribution of meteoric water to the brine, in-situ Rb decay, or post-depositional hydrothermal or diagenetic overprint. Here, we present a dataset of 26 new gypsum and anhydrite <sup>87</sup>Sr/<sup>86</sup>Sr ratios from drill cores situated at “Alter Stolberg” in the northernmost Thuringian Basin. Evaporites of the Werra-, Staßfurt-, and Leine cycles were sampled. The close proximity of the drillings allows a very accurate assignment of the stratigraphic position of each sample, so that trends and outliers in <sup>87</sup>Sr/<sup>86</sup>Sr ratios can easily be recognized. While the entire Werra Formation obviously revealed non-marine <sup>87</sup>Sr/<sup>86</sup>Sr ratios, the lowermost <sup>87</sup>Sr/<sup>86</sup>Sr ratios in the Staßfurt and Leine Formations can be assumed to represent marine ratios and allow estimating a chemostratigraphic age of 257‒254 Ma. The combination of the <sup>87</sup>Sr/<sup>86</sup>Sr data with the mineral composition of the samples suggests a contribution of meteoric water, probably river water, to the Zechstein Sea as the main reason for the observed increase in <sup>87</sup>Sr/<sup>86</sup>Sr ratios. Additional in-situ Rb decay, related to the riverine input of clay minerals, cannot be excluded. Modelling the amounts of sea water and meteoric water in the brine indicates that 83‒99% of meteoric water would be necessary to explain the highest <sup>87</sup>Sr/<sup>86</sup>Sr ratios observed in the Werra Formation.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Graphical abstract</h3>\u0000","PeriodicalId":13845,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Earth Sciences","volume":" 46","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138493130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Ice rafts, debris flows and slumps along a glaciated basin margin: the Carboniferous El Imperial Formation in the San Rafael basin, western Argentina 冰川盆地边缘的冰筏、泥石流和滑坡:阿根廷西部圣拉斐尔盆地石炭纪El帝国地层
IF 2.3 3区 地球科学
International Journal of Earth Sciences Pub Date : 2023-12-04 DOI: 10.1007/s00531-023-02364-9
Oscar R. López Gamundi
{"title":"Ice rafts, debris flows and slumps along a glaciated basin margin: the Carboniferous El Imperial Formation in the San Rafael basin, western Argentina","authors":"Oscar R. López Gamundi","doi":"10.1007/s00531-023-02364-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-023-02364-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study developed a novel, detailed sedimentological analysis for the complex interactions between rainout, iceberg rafting, tractional underflows, and settling of fines along a glacially influenced basin margin. The glaciomarine interval of the El Imperial Formation (Pennsylvanian, Serpukhovian–Bashkirian) in the San Rafael basin comprises massive to stratified diamictites, interpreted as rainout tills, thinly bedded diamictites, associated with cohesive debris flows, and mudstones containing ice-rafted debris (IRD), all capped by postglacial, transgressive, fine-grained sediments. The rhythmic intercalation of IRD-bearing (dropstone mudstones) and IRD-free (mudstones) intervals likely indicates variations in debris content within the ice margins, the on-and-off switching of ice streams, or dynamic oscillations of the ice terminus. The glaciomarine deposits exhibit soft sediment deformation on both large (metric to decametric) and small (centimetric) scales. This contribution refines previous interpretations of the soft sediment deformation, discerning between loading and slope triggered deformation. Large-scale deformation is characterized by coherent slump folds with low dispersion in the orientations of fold axial plane vergence and fold <i>b</i>-axes. Downslope-verging folds indicate a northward paleoslope, consistent with paleoflow indicators from flute casts found in sandstone turbidite beds. The diamictites affected by the large-scale soft sediment deformation are interpreted as rainout tills with a variable degree of gravity remobilization. Their association with thinly bedded diamictites and laminated mudstones with dropstones suggests that ice rafting played a significant role in the deposition of this succession.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Graphical abstract</h3>\u0000","PeriodicalId":13845,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Earth Sciences","volume":" 47","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138493129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Jurassic to early Cretaceous geodynamic evolution of the eastern Hellenides 东Hellenides侏罗纪至早白垩世地球动力学演化
IF 2.3 3区 地球科学
International Journal of Earth Sciences Pub Date : 2023-12-02 DOI: 10.1007/s00531-023-02368-5
Evripidis Mposkos, Alexander Krohe, Craig Walton, Ioannis Baziotis
{"title":"Jurassic to early Cretaceous geodynamic evolution of the eastern Hellenides","authors":"Evripidis Mposkos, Alexander Krohe, Craig Walton, Ioannis Baziotis","doi":"10.1007/s00531-023-02368-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-023-02368-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Remarkably well-preserved crustal sections from the Eastern Hellenides offer the chance to evaluate the regional geodynamic evolution of continental crust. Here, we identify and geodynamically interpret eclogite facies metamorphism in the Triassic–Jurassic volcano-sedimentary series of the West Circum Rhodope zone in the eastern Hellenides. Equilibrium phase diagrams and measured mineral compositions were used to inform reconstructions of geodynamic evolution during the early Alpine period. We newly define the existence of the Eohellenic HP belt, consisting of pre-Alpine basement, continental volcano-sedimentary formations, and a Jurassic magmatic arc. We suggest that the Eohellenic HP-Belt was subducted in the late Jurassic to early Cretaceous beneath the European plate margin. Detailed geodynamic reconstructions such as ours provide a robust anchor for future computational models of long-term crustal evolution in the Eastern Hellenides.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Graphical abstract</h3>\u0000","PeriodicalId":13845,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Earth Sciences","volume":"201 S602","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138497047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Deformation, age, and provenance of the Nogolí Metamorphic Complex protoliths, Sierra de San Luis, Argentina: evidence of a non-collisional history for the Cambrian in the western Gondwana margin 阿根廷圣路易山Nogolí变质复合原岩的变形、年龄和来源:冈瓦纳西部寒武纪非碰撞历史的证据
IF 2.3 3区 地球科学
International Journal of Earth Sciences Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1007/s00531-023-02366-7
Augusto F. Morosini, Eliel Enriquez, Alina M. Tibaldi, Juan M. Perón Orrillo, Eber A. Cristofolini, Damián A. Manchento, Diego S. Pagano, Andrés O. Carugno Duran, Joshua J. Schwartz, Juan E. Otamendi, Ariel E. Ortiz Suárez
{"title":"Deformation, age, and provenance of the Nogolí Metamorphic Complex protoliths, Sierra de San Luis, Argentina: evidence of a non-collisional history for the Cambrian in the western Gondwana margin","authors":"Augusto F. Morosini, Eliel Enriquez, Alina M. Tibaldi, Juan M. Perón Orrillo, Eber A. Cristofolini, Damián A. Manchento, Diego S. Pagano, Andrés O. Carugno Duran, Joshua J. Schwartz, Juan E. Otamendi, Ariel E. Ortiz Suárez","doi":"10.1007/s00531-023-02366-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-023-02366-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Situated in the western Sierras Pampeanas of San Luis, the Nogolí Metamorphic Complex has become a key geological locality for unraveling the construction of the western Gondwana margin on the South American tectonic plate. This study presents a comprehensive analysis, encompassing new petrological and geochronological data, along with a meticulous structural examination of two distinct regions within the Nogolí Metamorphic Complex. Our primary aim is to assess the age and provenance of the protoliths, thereby shedding light on their geodynamic evolution. Detrital zircon U–Pb ages, obtained from a quartz–feldspathic-schist paleosome within a metatexite exposure in the La Barranquita area, disclosed a polymodal distribution. The predominant age population, centered around 616 ± 11 Ma, suggests a late Neoproterozoic source (Brasiliano–Pan African orogen). A secondary, yet significant, age peak at 542 ± 12 Ma points to a late Ediacaran to Early Cambrian origin (Pampean orogen). Additionally, a peak ranging from 930 to 1144 Ma indicates contributions from an early Neoproterozoic source (Grenvillian–Sunsas orogen). The maximum depositional age was determined to be 533 ± 14 Ma, based on the calculation of the youngest grain cluster at 2σ uncertainty. This polymodal zircon-age spectrum indicates that the sedimentary protolith of the Nogolí Metamorphic Complex derived from a Cambrian-age crystalline basement situated along the western margin of Gondwana. Contrary to models invoking continent–continent collision in western Gondwana during the early Cambrian, our findings better support a ridge–trench collision as the most plausible hypothesis for the origin of the Pampean orogeny.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Graphical abstract</h3>\u0000","PeriodicalId":13845,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Earth Sciences","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138517262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The potential of polycyclic aromatic compounds as indicators for soil contamination by open-pit mining and utilization of lignite: a case study at Ptolemaida basin, Greece 多环芳香族化合物作为露天开采和褐煤利用土壤污染指标的潜力:以希腊托勒梅达盆地为例研究
IF 2.3 3区 地球科学
International Journal of Earth Sciences Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1007/s00531-023-02363-w
Jan Schwarzbauer, Johannes Vossen
{"title":"The potential of polycyclic aromatic compounds as indicators for soil contamination by open-pit mining and utilization of lignite: a case study at Ptolemaida basin, Greece","authors":"Jan Schwarzbauer, Johannes Vossen","doi":"10.1007/s00531-023-02363-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-023-02363-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The majority of Greek lignite fields and coal-fired power plants is accumulated in the centre of Western Macedonia in the Ptolemais-Amynteo region of Northern Greece (Ptolemaida basin). The corresponding environmental impact dominantly caused by the mining process itself but also due to the burning process of lignites needs to be considered. Therefore, this study aimed at assessing the potential of PAHs to trace the environmental impact of power plant and coal mining emissions on soil pollution in the Ptolemaida basin. Noteworthy, the study area exhibits some special features (e.g. geomorphological and meteorological conditions, well-defined emission sources) that allow to prove the suitability of PAHs as indicators for specific petrogenic contaminations. The different sets of PAH emission sources followed in this study (fly ashes, lignite dust, charred woody material) reflected the pollution as derived from the coal mining activities as well as agricultural measures. Different approaches from simple (total amount) to more complex fingerprinting (ring member classification; profiles of sulphur-/nitrogen- and oxygen-containing PACs) as well as the application of established specific PAH ratios revealed no significant correlation with the detected soil contamination or rather soil PAH profiles. However, the microscopic analyses contradicted this assumption, since relevant particle concentrations were evident for fly ash as well as lignite particles. Hence, a huge superimposition by a further PAH emission source is assumed, probably the exhaust fumes of car traffic. In general, the study demonstrated that the application of PAHs as source indicators in soil systems is very complex and needs a very thorough interpretation. Hence, the need of using additionally complementary parameters for an unambiguous emission source apportionment seems obvious.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Graphical abstract</h3>\u0000","PeriodicalId":13845,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Earth Sciences","volume":"201 S604","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138497045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Geochemical vectors to ore and environmental significance at the Chatree epithermal low-sulfidation deposit, Thailand 泰国Chatree浅成低温低硫化矿床矿石地球化学矢量及环境意义
IF 2.3 3区 地球科学
International Journal of Earth Sciences Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.1007/s00531-023-02367-6
Sirawit Kaewpaluk, Thitiphan Assawincharoenkij, Christoph Hauzenberger, Abhisit Salam
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