Kr and Xe isotopic compositions of Fe-Mn crusts from the western and central Pacific Ocean and implications for their genesis

BU Wenrui; SHI Xuefa; LI Li; ZHANG Mingjie; G. P. Glasby; LIU Jihua

doi:10.1007/s13131-014-0461-2

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BU Wenrui, SHI Xuefa, LI Li, ZHANG Mingjie, G. P. Glasby, LIU Jihua. Kr and Xe isotopic compositions of Fe-Mn crusts from the western and central Pacific Ocean and implications for their genesis[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2014, 33(8): 26-33. doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0461-2

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BU Wenrui, SHI Xuefa, LI Li, ZHANG Mingjie, G. P. Glasby, LIU Jihua. Kr and Xe isotopic compositions of Fe-Mn crusts from the western and central Pacific Ocean and implications for their genesis[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2014, 33(8): 26-33. doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0461-2

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BU Wenrui, SHI Xuefa, LI Li, ZHANG Mingjie, G. P. Glasby, LIU Jihua. Kr and Xe isotopic compositions of Fe-Mn crusts from the western and central Pacific Ocean and implications for their genesis[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2014, 33(8): 26-33. doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0461-2

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Kr and Xe isotopic compositions of Fe-Mn crusts from the western and central Pacific Ocean and implications for their genesis

doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0461-2

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Key Laboratory of Marine Sedimentology & Environmental Geology, First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao 266061, China
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School of Resources and Environment, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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Department of Geochemistry, Geowissenschafliches Zentrum der Universitat Göttingen (GZG), Göttingen 37077, Germany

Received Date: 2012-06-18
Rev Recd Date: 2013-08-07

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Kr and Xe nuclide abundance and isotopic ratios of the uppermost layer of Fe-Mn Crusts from the western and central Pacific Ocean have been determined. The results indicate that the Kr and Xe isotopic compositions, like that of He, Ne and Ar, can be classified into two types: low ³He/⁴He type and high ³He/⁴He type. The low ³He/⁴He type crusts have low 84Kr and 132Xe abundance, while the high ³He/⁴He type crusts have high 84Kr and 132Xe abundance. The 82Kr/84Kr ratios of the low ³He/⁴He type crusts are lower than that of the air, while the 83Kr/84Kr and 86Kr/84Kr ratios are higher than those of the air. The Kr isotopic ratios of the higher ³He/⁴He type crusts are quite similar to those of the air. The ¹²⁸Xe/¹³²Xe, ¹³⁰Xe/¹³²Xe and ¹³¹Xe/¹³²Xe ratios of the low ³He/⁴He type sample are distinctly lower than those of the air, whereas the ¹²⁹Xe/¹³²Xe, ¹³⁴Xe/¹³²Xe and ¹³⁶Xe/¹³²Xe ratios are higher than those of the air. The low ³He/⁴He type samples have the diagnostic characteristics of the MORB, with excess ^{129,131,132,134,136}Xe relative to ¹³⁰Xe compared with the solar wind. The ¹²⁸Xe/¹³²Xe, ¹³⁰Xe/¹³²Xe and ¹³¹Xe/¹³²Xe ratios of the high ³He/⁴He type samples are slightly higher than those of the air, and the ¹²⁹Xe/¹³²Xe, ¹³⁴Xe/¹³²Xe and ¹³⁶Xe/¹³²Xe ratios are qiute similar to those of the air. The noble gases in the Fe-Mn crusts are derived from the lower mantle, and they are a mixture of lower mantle primitive component, radiogenic component and subduction recycled component. The helium isotopic ratios of the low mantle reservoir are predominantly controlled by primitive He (³He) and U and Th radiogenic decayed He (⁴He), but the isotopic ratios of the heavier noble gases, such as Ar, Kr and Xe, are controlled to different extent by recycling of subduction components. The difference of the noble isotopic compositions of the two type crusts is the result of the difference of the noble isotopic composition of the mantle source reservoir underneath the seamounts the crusts occurred, the noble gases of the high ³He/⁴He type crusts are derived mainly from EM-type lower mantle reservoir, and the noble gases in the low ³He/⁴He type crusts are derived mainly from HIMU-type lower mantle reservoir.
- Fe-Mn crusts,
- Kr and Xe isotopes,
- mantle reservoir,
- Pacific Ocean,
- subduction recycling

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