Trace Elements Characteristics of Black Shales from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, Hubei Province, South China: Implications for Redox and Open vs. Restricted Basin Conditions

Bi Zhu; Shaoyong Jiang; Daohui Pi; Lu Ge; Jinghong Yang

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Bi Zhu, Shaoyong Jiang, Daohui Pi, Lu Ge, Jinghong Yang. Trace Elements Characteristics of Black Shales from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, Hubei Province, South China: Implications for Redox and Open vs. Restricted Basin Conditions. Journal of Earth Science, 2018, 29(2): 342-352. doi: 10.1007/s12583-017-0907-5

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Bi Zhu, Shaoyong Jiang, Daohui Pi, Lu Ge, Jinghong Yang. Trace Elements Characteristics of Black Shales from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, Hubei Province, South China: Implications for Redox and Open vs. Restricted Basin Conditions. Journal of Earth Science, 2018, 29(2): 342-352. doi: 10.1007/s12583-017-0907-5

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Bi Zhu, Shaoyong Jiang, Daohui Pi, Lu Ge, Jinghong Yang. Trace Elements Characteristics of Black Shales from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, Hubei Province, South China: Implications for Redox and Open vs. Restricted Basin Conditions. Journal of Earth Science, 2018, 29(2): 342-352. doi: 10.1007/s12583-017-0907-5

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Trace Elements Characteristics of Black Shales from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, Hubei Province, South China: Implications for Redox and Open vs. Restricted Basin Conditions

doi: 10.1007/s12583-017-0907-5

Bi Zhu^1,3,
Shaoyong Jiang^{2,3
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Daohui Pi²,
Lu Ge¹,
Jinghong Yang³

1.
Institute of Isotope Hydrology, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
2.
State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Faculty of Earth Resources, Collaborative Innovation Center for Exploration of Strategic Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
3.
State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

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Corresponding author: Shaoyong Jiang, shyjiang@cug.edu.cn
Received Date: 06 Oct 2016
Accepted Date: 07 Feb 2017
Publish Date: 01 Feb 2018

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In the present study, we carried out trace element analyses of black shales of the Ediacaran Doushantou Formation from two sections (Jiulongwan, Baiguoyuan) in Hubei Province, South China. Mo-U characteristics of black shales from the two sections and compiled Mo-U data of Doushantuo black shales from sections of a variety of sedimentary facies described the temporal/spatial variability in the redox conditions of paleo-seawater during deposition of the Doushantuo Formation. Changes in Mo-U patterns of the Doushantuo Member Ⅱ (DST2) shales of open marine environments are consistent with a shift from a predominately oxic to a predominately anoxic ocean during their deposition. Mo-U patterns of the DST2 black shales from intra-shelf sections reflect basin restriction may have happened in the intra-shelf basin and are compatible with the redox-stratified model of the intra-shelf basin. Mo-U patterns of black shales of the Doushantuo Member Ⅳ (DST4) reveal that the shales from intra-shelf sections have more pronounced Mo enrichment and more significant enrichment of Mo over U than the slope shales, indicating the operation of a Mn particulate shuttle in the intra-shelf basin. High Mo/TOC ratios of the DST4 at the intra-shelf sections, in combination with similar Mo-TOC patterns of the DST4 from both intra-shelf and slope sections, indicate the intra-shelf basin was well connected to the open ocean during deposition of the DST4.
- Doushantuo Formation,
- Mo-U covariation,
- Mo/TOC,
- South China

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