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- Title
Peculiarities of the rare-earth element distribution in the modern bottom sediments of the White Sea and the lower reaches of the Severnaya Dvina River.
- Authors
Maslov, A.; Shevchenko, V.; Ronkin, Yu.; Lepikhina, O.; Novigatsky, A.; Filippov, A.; Shevchenko, N.
- Abstract
The study of the rare-earth element (REE) systematics in the modern bottom sediments of the White Sea and the lower reaches of the Severnaya Dvina River showed that they were derived by the simple mixing of the detrital material from two geochemically contrasting provenances: the Kola-Karelian geoblock almost completely consisting of Archean rocks and the northwestern Mezen syneclise made up of the Upper Vendian, Paleozoic, and Mesozoic rocks. This is best manifested by the changes in ɛ(0). In terms of the Gd/Yb and Eu/Eu*, most of the studied samples are comparable with the Post-Archean craton complexes, some of which resemble the average composition of the Archean mudstone. Based on the ΣREE and La/Yb, the modern bottom sediments are subdivided into two groups: (1) those close to basalts and granites and (2) those approximating common sedimentary rocks. From the lower reaches of the Pinega River to the Tersky coast, the maximal average (La/Yb), (Gd/Yb), La/Yb, and Gd/Yb ratios were determined in the samples taken at the boundary of Dvina Bay with the Basin, i.e., in the sediments with the highest content of the pelitic component. In general, the geochemical composition of the modern bottom sediments of almost the entire White Sea area was defined by input of the eroded products of the mature continental crust with the Severnaya Dvina River, the main river of the region. Such a setting, when the formation of the sediments in a peri- or intracontinental marine basin is controlled by one large river system, presumably may be propagated to the sedimentation in the Laptev Sea, the eastern Kara Sea, the Bay of Bengal, and other basins.
- Subjects
WHITE Sea (Russia); NORTHERN Dvina River (Russia); RARE earth metals; MARINE sediments; GEOCHEMISTRY; MESOZOIC paleontology
- Publication
Oceanology (00014370), 2013, Vol 53, Issue 6, p702
- ISSN
0001-4370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S0001437013050111