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CHEMICAL GEOLOGY
卷 449, 期 -, 页码 158-164出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.11.005
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Authigenic gypsum; Authigenic pyrite; Methane seeps; SW African margin; Oxygen isotopes; Sulphur isotopes
The southwest African Margin is a well-known area of active methane seeps that are related to high deposition rates of organic-rich sediments where intense methanogenesis occur in the subseafloor environment. The sediments are totally anoxic up to the surface and contain huge H2S concentrations, gas hydrates and authigenic carbonates derived from the anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled with the reduction of sulphate. Three cores collected at water depths from 3102 to 3435 m from Worm Hole, Deep Hole and Regab Pockmark located offshore Gabon and Angola were selected to determine the origin of pyrite concretions and authigenic gypsum crystals that may be very abundant in the sediments down to about 2.8 m below the seafloor. Pyrite concretions correspond often to tubular structures that are interpreted as possible molds of giant sulphur oxidizing bacteria. The sulphur isotopic composition of pyrite varies within a narrow range (-50.4 to 44.9 parts per thousand. V-CDT) that indicates extreme isotopic fractionation due to bacterial reduction of the sea-water sulphate and disproportionation of sulphur during sulphide oxidation. The authigenic gypsum occurs as hyaline prisms more or less elongated and as dull prismatic or lenticular crystals. The oxygen and sulphur isotopic compositions of gypsum vary widely ( +1.6 < delta O-18 parts per thousand V-SMOW < +7.9; 38.8 < delta S-34 parts per thousand V-CDT < + 10.9) and are much lower than the values characteristic of marine gypsum. These values indicate that the dissolved sulphate of pore water from which gypsum precipitated was issued from two pools: 1) the O-18-S-34 rich residual sea-water sulphate resulting from bacterial sulphate reduction, and 2) the sulphate produced by oxidation of sulphide by dissolved oxygen and oxygen of water more or less modified by gas hydrate formation, and where the disproportionation of sulphur caused large and variable S-34 and O-18 enrichments in the produced sulphate. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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