Rare earth elements in bottom sediments of major rivers around the Yellow Sea: implications for sediment provenance
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Title
- Rare earth elements in bottom sediments of major rivers around the Yellow Sea: implications for sediment provenance
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Author(s)
- Xu, Zhaokai; Lim, Dhongil; Choi, Jinyong; Yang, Shouye; Jung, Hoisoo
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- Lim, Dhong Il(임동일); Jung, Hoi Soo(정회수)
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Alternative Author(s)
- 임동일; 정회수
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Publication Year
- 2009-10
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Abstract
- Rare earth elements (REEs) of 91 fine-grained bottom sediment samples from five major rivers in Korea (the Han, Keum, and Yeongsan) and China (the Changjiang and Huanghe) were studied to investigate their potential as source indicator for Yellow Sea shelf sediments, this being the first synthetic report on REE trends for bottom sediments of these rivers. The results show distinct differences in REE contents and their upper continental crust (UCC)-normalized patterns: compared to heavy rare earth elements (HREEs), light rare earth elements (LREEs) are highly enriched in Korean river sediments, in contrast to Chinese river sediments that have a characteristic positive Eu anomaly. This phenomenon is observed also in primary source rocks within the river catchments. This suggests that source rock composition is the primary control on the REE signatures of these river sediments, due largely to variations in the levels of chlorite and monazite, which are more abundant in Korean bottom river sediments. Systematic variations in I LREE pound/I HREE pound ratios, and in (La/Yb)-(Gd/Yb)(UCC) but also (La/Lu)-(La/Y)(UCC) and (La/Y)-(Gd/Lu)(UCC) relations have the greatest discriminatory power. These findings are consistent with, but considerably expand on the limited datasets available to date for suspended sediments. Evidently, the REE fingerprints of these river sediments can serve as a useful diagnostic tool for tracing the provenance of sediments in the Yellow Sea, and for reconstructing their dispersal patterns and the circulation system of the modern shelf, as well as the paleoenvironmental record of this and adjoining marginal seas.
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ISSN
- 0276-0460
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URI
- https://sciwatch.kiost.ac.kr/handle/2020.kiost/4243
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DOI
- 10.1007/s00367-009-0142-x
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Bibliographic Citation
- GEO-MARINE LETTERS, v.29, no.5, pp.291 - 300, 2009
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Publisher
- SPRINGER
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Subject
- EAST CHINA SEA; YANGTZE-RIVER; GEOCHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; SUSPENDED PARTICLES; MARINE-SEDIMENTS; DRAINAGE-BASIN; MUD DEPOSITS; SHELF; CHANGJIANG
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Type
- Article
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Language
- English
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Document Type
- Article
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