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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Biomineralization Processes During the Formation of Modern Oceanic Sulfide Ore and Ore-bearing Sediments

Authors : Irina F. Gablina, Irina G. Dobretsova, Evgenia A. Popova

Published in: Biogenic—Abiogenic Interactions in Natural and Anthropogenic Systems

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Sulfide ores were investigated along with ore-bearing and metalliferous sediments of the hydrothermal fields in the northern near-equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) zone: Semenov (13°30–31′N), Ashadze-1 (12°58′N), Zenit-Victoria (20°08′N), and Peterburgskoe fields (19°52′N), discovered during legs 26, 32, and 33 of the R/V Professor Logachev FSUE PMGE. Biogenic carbonate and background sediments of this region were also examined. Lithological, biostratigraphic, and geochemical physical-chemical investigations methods were used. Mineragraphic and precision structural and chemical research of typomorphic minerals were carried out at various stages of lithogenesis. It was found out that most sulfide constructions in the Zenit-Victoria and Peterburgskoe fields, as well as the eastern field of the Semenov cluster, are located in biogenic carbonate sediments of the Holocene and Late Pleistocene ages and represent a new type of sulfide mineralization, unknown earlier in the MAR zone. This mineralization was formed by metasomatic replacement of biogenic carbonate sediments by ore minerals, simultaneously with diffuse percolating of hydrothermal solutions through the sediments.

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Footnotes
1
/cfs—based on carbonate-free substance.
 
2
The dating in the Petersburgskoe ore field of 176.2 ± 59 ka (Shilov et al. 2012) needs to be clarified.
 
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Metadata
Title
Biomineralization Processes During the Formation of Modern Oceanic Sulfide Ore and Ore-bearing Sediments
Authors
Irina F. Gablina
Irina G. Dobretsova
Evgenia A. Popova
Copyright Year
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24987-2_5