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PT J
TI Environmental Hf–Nd isotopic decoupling in World river clays
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AF BAYON, Germain
   SKONIECZNY, Charlotte
   DELVIGNE, Camille
   TOUCANNE, Samuel
   BERMELL, Sylvain
   PONZEVERA, Emmanuel
   ANDRE, Luc
AS 1:1,2;2:1;3:2;4:1;5:1;6:1;7:2;
FF 1:PDG-REM-GM-LCG;2:;3:;4:PDG-REM-GM-LGS;5:PDG-REM-GM-CTDI;6:PDG-REM-GM-LCG;7:;
C1 IFREMER, Unite Rech Geosci Marines, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   Royal Museum Cent Africa, Dept Earth Sci, B-3080 Tervuren, Belgium.
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   ROYAL MUSEUM CENT AFRICA, BELGIUM
   UBO, FRANCE
SI BREST
SE PDG-REM-GM-LCG
   PDG-REM-GM-LGS
   PDG-REM-GM-CTDI
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
   copubli-europe
   copubli-univ-france
IF 4.409
TC 38
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00310/42094/41479.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;hafnium isotopes;neodymium;rivers;clays;weathering;climate
AB The hafnium and neodymium radiogenic isotope systems behave differently during Earth surface processes, causing a wide dispersion of Hf and Nd isotopic compositions in sediments and other sedimentary rocks. The decoupling between Hf and Nd isotopes in sediments is generally attributed to a combination of preferential sorting of zircon during sediment transport and incongruent weathering processes on continents. In this study, we analysed size-fractions of sediment samples collected near the mouth of 53 rivers worldwide to better understand the factors controlling the distribution of Hf and Nd isotopes in sediments. Our results for rivers draining old cratonic areas and volcanic provinces demonstrate that both granite and basalt weathering can lead to significant grain-size dependent Hf isotopic variability. While silt-size fractions mainly plot along the Terrestrial Array, World river clays are systematically shifted towards more radiogenic Hf isotopic compositions, defining together with published data a new Clay Array (εHf=0.78×εNd+5.23εHf=0.78×εNd+5.23). The Hf–Nd isotope decoupling observed in volcanogenic sediments is best explained by selective alteration of Lu-rich mineral phases (e.g. olivine) and preferential enrichment of resistant unradiogenic minerals, such as spinel and ilmenite, in silt fractions. We also show that the extent to which World river clays deviate from the Clay Array (ΔεHf clayΔεHf clay) is not linked to the presence of zircons. Instead, it correlates positively with weathering indices and climatic parameters (temperature, rainfall) of the corresponding drainage basins. Overall, these findings demonstrate that the distribution of Hf–Nd isotopes in clay-size sediments is related to a large extent to weathering conditions on continents, although the precise mechanisms controlling this relationship remain unclear. We finally propose that the Hf–Nd isotope pair proxy could be used in palaeoenvironmental studies to provide semi-quantitative information on past climates.
PY 2016
PD MAR
SO Earth And Planetary Science Letters
SN 0012-821X
PU Elsevier Science Bv
VL 438
UT 000370913100003
BP 25
EP 36
DI 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.01.010
ID 42094
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