Geochemical characteristics and geological implication of ferromanganese crust from CM6 Seamount of the Caroline Ridge in the Western Pacific

Qing WANG; Zhenyan WANG; Kai LIU; Quanchao CUI; Xingyu SHI

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Geochemical characteristics and geological implication of ferromanganese crust from CM6 Seamount of the Caroline Ridge in the Western Pacific

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- Geochemical characteristics and geological implication of ferromanganese crust from CM6 Seamount of the Caroline Ridge in the Western Pacific
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 39, Issue 5, Pages: 1605-1621(2021)
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  1.CAS Key Laboratory of Marine Geology and Environment, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
  2.Laboratory for Marine Mineral Resources, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao 266237, China
  3.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  4.Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
- Author bio：
  
  Zhenyan WANG, E-mail: zywang@qdio.ac.cn
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-021-1032-y
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- Received：18 March 2021，
  
  Accepted：28 April 2021，
  
  Online First：20 July 2021，
  
  Published：2021-09
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Qing WANG, Zhenyan WANG, Kai LIU, et al. Geochemical characteristics and geological implication of ferromanganese crust from CM6 Seamount of the Caroline Ridge in the Western Pacific[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2021, 39(5): 1605-1621.
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Qing WANG, Zhenyan WANG, Kai LIU, et al. Geochemical characteristics and geological implication of ferromanganese crust from CM6 Seamount of the Caroline Ridge in the Western Pacific[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2021, 39(5): 1605-1621. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-021-1032-y.

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Ferromanganese crusts (Fe-Mn crusts) grow very slow and can be treated as condensed stratigraphic sections recording paleo-oceanographic environmental information and local key geological events during the mineralization process. Geochronology

textures

mineralogy

and geochemistry of a Fe-Mn crust sample from the CM6 Seamount of the Caroline Ridge in the Western Pacific Ocean were analyzed by means of electron probe microanalysis and X-ray diffraction. The Fe-Mn crust shows three layers in textural characteristics from bottom to top. The lower

middle

and upper layers presence mottled

botryoidal

and columnar textures

respectively. Ferruginous vernadite

Fe hydroxide

amorphous silicate minerals

calcite

quartz

and feldspar are the main minerals of the Fe-Mn crust. Using cobalt chronometry method

the cumulative growth time of the Fe-Mn crust was determined to be 11 Ma or 25 Ma

of which 25 Ma is inconsistent with other lines of age constraint brought by dating of the substrate. The co-existence of abundant silicate minerals and bioclasts in the middle and lower layers of the Fe-Mn crust diluted the ferromanganese oxide deposits

thus affected the texture

minerals

and geochemical characteristics of the Fe-Mn crust. Variations in Mn

and other elements content and the burial of opal-A recorded the expansion of oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) in the upper layer of the Fe-Mn crust. In addition

the highreflectivity Fe-rich laminae might indicate the surrounding volcanic activity. The Fe-Mn crust sample was determined to be hydrogenic by electron probe micro-analyzer (EPMA). The findings help us understand the geochemical characteristics of the Fe-Mn crust in the Caroline Ridge Seamount in the Western Pacific and the variations of paleo-oceanographic environment clues borne by the Fe-Mn crusts.

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