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GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 317, Issue -, Pages 53-64Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2021.10.015
Keywords
Abstract; Mg distribution; Aragonite; Growth rate; Temperature effect; Defect sites
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- French National program INSU/LEFE
- FWF [P 31832-N29]
- DFG-FWF collaborative research initiative CHARON II [DFG Forschergruppe 1644, FWF-I3028-N29]
- NAWI Graz (Central Lab for Water, Minerals and Rocks)
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The study found that the growth rate of aragonite is a major factor affecting the Mg partitioning coefficient, with temperature having a smaller but measurable effect. At similar growth rates, decreasing temperature leads to lower DMg values, while increasing fluid supersaturation with respect to aragonite is associated with increased Mg incorporation.
The incorporation of Mg in aragonite was experimentally investigated as a function of mineral growth rate at 5, 15 and 25 degrees C using the constant addition technique. Aragonite growth rate was found to be the major parameter affecting the Mg partitioning coefficient i.e. DMg 1/4 oMgCa thorn solid oMg between aragonite and fluid, whereas the effect of temperature is smaller but measurable. At similar surface normalized growth rates, DMg values decrease as temperature increases from 5 to 25 degrees C. The magnitude of decrease as a function of temperature is similar for all the experiments of this study where growth rate varied in the range 10-8.6 < rp < 10-7.1 (mol/m2/s). The combined effect of aragonite growth rate and temperature on DMg can be described by the linear equation: Log DMg = 0.583(+/- 0.020) Log rp - 0.026(+/- 0.001) T + 0.863(+/- 0.153); R2 = 0.97. where T is the temperature in degrees Celsius. The increase of DMg values at decreasing temperatures in experiments conducted at similar growth rates is consistent with the increase of fluid supersaturation with respect to aragonite. Thus, it can be inferred that increased Mg incorporation at higher supersaturation is associated with the greater presence of defect sites on the growing mineral surface, similar to the incorporation of other incompatible ions in carbonate minerals. Overall, the relationship between Mg content of aragonite with the degree of saturation of the fluid with respect to this mineral phase suggests that DMg values or Mg/Ca ratio in natural aragonites can be used as a proxy for saturation degree of the formation fluid with respect to CaCO3 minerals. (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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