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- Title
Petrography and geochemical analysis of Arctic ikaite pseudomorphs from Utqiaġvik (Barrow), Alaska.
- Authors
Schultz, Bo P.; Huggett, Jennifer M.; Kennedy, George L.; Burger, Paul; Friis, Henrik; Jensen, Anne M.; Kanstrup, Marie; Bernasconi, Stefano M.; Thibault, Nicolas; Ullmann, Clemens V.; Vickers, Madeleine L.
- Abstract
Ikaite and pseudomorphs thereafter ("glendonites") are a potentially powerful tool for palaeoclimatic studies, as a low-temperature proxy. However, much uncertainty still surrounds the drivers of ikaite formation, in particular prerequisite thermal and chemical conditions. Furthermore, the ikaite to glendonite transformation is not fully understood, and it was unclear which calcite phases in glendonites were ikaite-derived and which were later diagenetic calcites. This leads to difficulties in choosing which phase to analyse in order to reconstruct the original ikaite growth environmental conditions. Petrographic examination of air-transformed ikaite from the Isatkoak Lagoon in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, confirms that both 'Type I' and 'Type II' calcite phases seen in glendonites are directly derived from ikaite breakdown and not from secondary sources. Clumped isotope temperature reconstructions for transformed ikaites from Utqiaġvik, and comparison to Recent glendonites from the White Sea, Russia, confirm that clumped isotope thermometry may be used to reconstruct ikaite growth temperatures, whilst stable isotopes and minor elemental analysis reveal that a range of geochemical conditions characterise ikaite growth sites.
- Subjects
UTQIAGVIK (Alaska); PSEUDOMORPHS; PETROLOGY; ANALYTICAL geochemistry; ELEMENTAL analysis; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY
- Publication
Norwegian Journal of Geology, 2023, Vol 103, p1
- ISSN
2387-5852
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17850/njg103-1-3