Provenance changes of the holocene deposits of Oga and Tsivolki bays (Novaya Zemlya archipelago) according to SR, ND, PB isotope data
- Authors: Vishnevskaya I.A.1, Kostitsyn Y.A.1, Okuneva T.G.2, Soloshenko N.G.2
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Affiliations:
- Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry (GEOKHI) RAS
- Zavaritsky Institute of Geology and Geochemistry UB RAS
- Issue: Vol 69, No 1 (2024)
- Pages: 63-76
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0016-7525/article/view/259994
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0016752524010053
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/MSVQTE
- ID: 259994
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Abstract
The paper is devoted to the Sr-, Nd-, Pb-isotope data obtained for two cores of bottom sediments taken in the Oga and Tsivolki bays of the Severny Island of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. The studied sequence of sediments from Oga Bay has been accumulated over the last thousand years. The 87Sr/86Sr ratio decreases from top to bottom down the section from 0.72225 to 0.71995, the value of εNd varies from –6.1 to –5.5. The Pb isotopic composition varies within narrow limits: the 206Pb/204Pb ratio from 19.107 to 19.139, the 207Pb/204Pb ratio from 15.632 to 15.635, and the 208Pb/204Pb ratio from 38.568 to 38.635. A rapid decrease in the 87Sr/86Sr ratio at a relatively stable neodymium and lead isotope composition indicates a change in the source of the clastogenic material. This can be explained by the fact that the material of the destruction of Permian clay shales, and then the Devonian-Silurian sedimentary carbonates, first entered the area of glacier abrasion and further, respectively, into the sedimentation zone.
The sediment column from the Tsivolki Bay was formed over a little more than 10 thousand years. Based on the Sr, Nd, and Pb isotope ratios, these bottom sediments are divided into lower and upper parts: before and after 150 cm (or ~3500 years). In the lower part of the column, the 87Sr/86Sr ratio increases from 0.72055 to 0.72580, the value of εNd remains approximately the same and varies around –8.2. In the upper part, the 87Sr/86Sr ratio drops to 0.72049 in the near-surface layer; at the same time, the value of εNd increases to –6.4. At the boundary of these two units, the 206Pb/204Pb ratio abruptly changes from about 18.0 in the lower part to 19.3 in the upper part and 208Pb/204Pb from about 36.5 in the lower part to 38.7 in the upper part of the section. The change in the Sr, Nd, and Pb isotope characteristics is likely a reflection of changes in the composition of the rocks in the area where the basin was removed, which is now being eroded by the glacier.
Comparison with modern sources supplying clastic material to the Kara Sea showed that the material inputs the Oga and Tsivolki bays only from Novaya Zemlya.
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I. A. Vishnevskaya
Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry (GEOKHI) RAS
Author for correspondence.
Email: vishnevskaia@geokhi.ru
Russian Federation, Kosygina str., 19, Moscow, 119334
Y. A. Kostitsyn
Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry (GEOKHI) RAS
Email: vishnevskaia@geokhi.ru
Russian Federation, Kosygina str., 19, Moscow, 119334
T. G. Okuneva
Zavaritsky Institute of Geology and Geochemistry UB RAS
Email: vishnevskaia@geokhi.ru
Russian Federation, Akademika Vonsovskogo str.,15, Ekaterinburg, 620016
N. G. Soloshenko
Zavaritsky Institute of Geology and Geochemistry UB RAS
Email: vishnevskaia@geokhi.ru
Russian Federation, Akademika Vonsovskogo str.,15, Ekaterinburg, 620016
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