日本地球惑星科学連合2019年大会

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セッション記号 S (固体地球科学) » S-GC 固体地球化学

[S-GC41] 固体地球化学・惑星化学

2019年5月29日(水) 17:15 〜 18:30 ポスター会場 (幕張メッセ国際展示場 8ホール)

コンビーナ:下田 玄(産業技術総合研究所地質調査総合センター)、鈴木 勝彦(国立研究開発法人海洋研究開発機構・海底資源研究開発センター)、山下 勝行(岡山大学大学院自然科学研究科)、石川 晃(東京工業大学理学院地球惑星科学系)

[SGC41-P03] Age determination of spherical carbonate concretions by Sr isotope stratigraphy

*淺原 良浩1吉田 英一2山本 鋼志1勝田 長貴3南 雅代4メトカルフェ リチャード5 (1.名古屋大学大学院環境学研究科、2.名古屋大学博物館、3.岐阜大学教育学部、4.名古屋大学宇宙地球環境研究所、5.Quintessa UK)

キーワード:炭酸塩コンクリーション、化石、ストロンチウム同位体、年代決定、海洋堆積物

Isolated spherical carbonate (CaCO3) concretions are frequently observed in marine clayey sediments but do not always contain index fossils. Although carbonate concretions with fossil inside can be used to estimate sedimentation ages, concretions without fossils inside have never previously been used for age determination. In this study, we used 87Sr/86Sr ratios to determine the ages of these spherical concretions.

The studied concretions formed in the Yatsuo Group of Miocene age in central Japan. Some formed post-mortem around tusk-shells (Fissidentaliumspp.), while other concretions have no shell fossils inside. The concretions formed under highly constrained conditions by reactions between the decay products of organic matter and Ca2+ from the marine water (Yoshida et al., 2015; 2018). And the sedimentary structure around the concretions and geochemical analyses reveal that Sr was incorporated into the CaCO3 concretions during their rapid formation.

The 87Sr/86Sr ratios of calcite in the tusk-shell concretions lie within 0.70865~0.70867 and vary little. The values are similar to those of tusk-shell aragonite, 0.70865~0.70868. In addition, the isolated carbonate concretions without shell fossils have 87Sr/86Sr ratios of 0.70865~0.70868, which are also well consistent with the tusk-shell aragonite values. Based on the Sr isotope stratigraphy (McArthur et al., 2001) and the measured 87Sr/86Sr values, the age of the tusk-shell concretions lies within a narrow range of 17.08 (+0.27, −0.28) Ma. The age determined from the 87Sr/86Sr of the tusk-shells themselves (16.86 +/− 0.34 Ma) is almost the same. The age determined from the 87Sr/86Sr of concretions without fossils, 16.95 (+0.36, −0.37) Ma, is almost the same as that of the tusk-shell concretions. Strontium isotopic stratigraphy using 87Sr/86Sr ratios of all concretions with tusk-shell and without fossils indicates an age of 17.02 +/− 0.27 Ma, with higher accuracy than the ages estimated using microfossils from the Yatsuo Group. The results imply that the 87Sr/86Sr ratio of isolated spherical carbonate concretions can be applied generally to estimate the ages of all kinds of spherical concretions in marine sediments (Yoshida et al., 2019).