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| Baronas, J. Jotautas; Torres, Mark A.; West, A. Joshua; Rouxel, Olivier; Georg, Bastian; Bouchez, Julien; Gaillardet, Jerome; Hammond, Douglas E.. |
| Solutes derived from the dissolution of silicate minerals play a key role in Earth’s climate via the carbon and other biogeochemical cycles. Silicon (Si) is a unique constituent of silicate minerals and a biologically important nutrient, so tracing its behavior in near-surface environments may provide important insights into weathering processes. However, Si released by weathering is variably incorporated into secondary mineral phases and biota, obscuring signals derived from primary weathering processes. Due to chemical similarities, Germanium (Ge) may help better understand the Si cycle and its relationship to chemical weathering. With this aim, we report new measurements of the concentration and isotopic composition of Ge for both the dissolved and... |
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Palavras-chave: Germanium; Silicon; Isotopes; Rivers; Weathering; Fractionation. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00460/57196/59370.pdf |
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| Baronas, J. Jotautas; Hammond, Douglas E.; Bennett, Mia M.; Rouxel, Olivier; Pitcher, Lincoln H.; Smith, Laurence C.. |
| Glacial environments offer the opportunity to study the incipient stages of chemical weathering due to the high availability of finely ground sediments, low water temperatures, and typically short rock-water interaction times. In this study we focused on the geochemical behavior of germanium (Ge) in west Greenland, both during subglacial weathering by investigating glacier-fed streams, as well as during a batch reactor experiment by allowing water-sediment interaction for up to 2 years in the laboratory. Sampled in late August 2014, glacial stream Ge and Si concentrations were low, ranging between 12–55 pmol/L and 7–33 µmol/L, respectively (Ge/Si = 0.9–2.2 µmol/mol, similar to parent rock). As reported previously, the dissolved stable Ge isotope ratio... |
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Palavras-chave: Glacial weathering; Germanium; Isotope fractionation; Amorphous silica; Experimental dissolution. |
| Ano: 2021 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00684/79577/82249.pdf |
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| Baronas, J. Jotautas; West, A. Joshua; Burton, Kevin W.; Hammond, Douglas E.; Opfergelt, Sophie; Pogge Von Strandmann, Philip A. E.; James, Rachael H.; Rouxel, Olivier. |
| Chemical weathering of volcanic rocks in warm and humid climates contributes disproportionately to global solute fluxes. Geochemical signatures of solutes and solids formed during this process can help quantify and reconstruct weathering intensity in the past. Here, we measured silicon (Si) and germanium (Ge) isotope ratios of the soils, clays, and fluids from a tropical lowland rainforest in Costa Rica. The bulk topsoil is intensely weathered and isotopically light (mean ± 1σ: δ30Si = −2.1 ± 0.3‰, δ74Ge = −0.13 ± 0.12‰) compared to the parent rock (δ30Si = −0.11 ± 0.05‰, δ74Ge = 0.59 ± 0.07‰). Neoforming clays have even lower values (δ30Si = −2.5 ± 0.2‰, δ74Ge = −0.16 ± 0.09‰), demonstrating a whole‐system isotopic shift in extremely weathered systems.... |
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| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00643/75484/76330.pdf |
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