Composition and provenance analysis of rare-earth elements in the manganese-rich brown layers of the Mendeleev Ridge, Arctic Ocean

Zhao Song; Dong Linsen; Wang Xiangqin; Wu Dong; Bai Yazhi; Liu Yanguang

doi:10.3969/j.issn.0253-4193.2020.07.007

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Zhao Song，Dong Linsen，Wang Xiangqin, et al. Composition and provenance analysis of rare-earth elements in the manganese-rich brown layers of the Mendeleev Ridge, Arctic Ocean[J]. Haiyang Xuebao，2020, 42(7)：78–92 doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-4193.2020.07.007

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Composition and provenance analysis of rare-earth elements in the manganese-rich brown layers of the Mendeleev Ridge, Arctic Ocean

doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-4193.2020.07.007

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Key Laboratory of Marine Sedimentology and Environmental Geology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao 266061, China
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Laboratory for Marine Geology, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao 266237, China

Received Date: 2019-10-21
Rev Recd Date: 2019-12-04

Available Online: 2020-11-18

Publish Date: 2020-07-25

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The Mn (manganese)-rich brown layers (brown layers) distribute widely in the Arctic Ocean seafloor which controlled by sea ice, surface currents, material supply and so on. In this study, we investigate the provenance and composition feature of brown layers based on changes of contents on rare earth and trace elements, coarse fraction, inorganic carbon and colour reflectance of core ARC07-E25 retrieved from the Mendeleev Ridge, western Arctic Ocean. Total rare earth elements (∑REE) changes between 122.37×10⁻⁶ to 231.94×10⁻⁶, the north American Shale normalized records of the sediments generally show enrichment in medium rare earth element (MREE) and light rare earth element (LREE) which dominated by lanthanum (La), cerium (Ce) and neodymium (Nd), respectively. With the increase of coarse fraction, such as ice rafted detritus (IRD), the decrease trend of ∑REE indicates REE mainly enrich in fine grain fraction in the Mendeleev Ridge sediments. The differences of REE contents between brown and gray layers, which are classified in the core based on various characteristics of ∑REE, demonstrate distinct Ce anomalies in the brown layer and grey layer associated with different redox conditions: it will be oxidized from Ce³⁺ to Ce⁴⁺ in oxic brown layers and be reduced from Ce⁴⁺ to Ce³⁺ in gray layers. This behavior favors the large variation of ∑LREE content and affects the ∑REE content in the sediments. Consequently, the ∑REE contents are increasing in the brown layers representing oxidation condition and decreasing in the gray layer representing reduction condition. The results of R-type factor analysis show that the REE in sediments have a good correlation with the detritus elements (Nb, U and Th), and mainly derived from inshore erosion of the East Siberian continental shelf, New Siberian Islands and input of the Lena River.
- rare earth elements,
- western Arctic Ocean,
- Mendeleev Ridge,
- manganese-rich brown layers,
- redox condition

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