Molybdenum behavior during early diagenesis: Insights from Mo isotopes

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Brucker, Rebecca L Poulson ^a   McManus, James ^a   Severmann, Silke ^b   Berelson, William M ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagenesis; Isotopes; Molybdenum

Indexed keywords

EID: 72749110799     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GC002180     Document Type: Article

References (76)

1. Algeo, T. J., and T. W. Lyons (2006), Mo-TOC covariation in modern anoxic marine environments: Implications for analysis of paleoredox and-hydrographic conditions, Paleoceanography, 21, PA1016, doi:10.1029/2004PA001112. (Pubitemid 43670729)
2. Archer, C., and D. Vance (2008), The isotopic signature of the global riverine molybdenum flux and anoxia in the ancient oceans, Nat. Geosci., 1, 597-600, doi:10.1038/ngeo282.
3. Arnold, G. L., A. D. Anbar, J. Barling, and T.W. Lyons (2004), Molybdenum isotope evidence for widespread anoxia in mid-Proterozoic oceans, Science, 304, 87-90, doi:10.1126/science.1091785. (Pubitemid 38451461)
4. Barling, J., and A. D. Anbar (2004), Molybdenum isotope fractionation during adsorption by manganese oxides, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 217, 315-329, doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00608-3. (Pubitemid 38106839)
5. Barling, J., G. L. Arnold, and A. D. Anbar (2001), Natural mass-dependent variations in the isotopic composition of molybdenum, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 193, 447-457, doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00514-3. (Pubitemid 34054526)
6. Barnett, P. R. O., J. Watson, and D. Connelly (1984), A multiple corer for taking virtually undisturbed samples from shelf, bathyal, and abyssal sediments, Oceanol. Acta, 7, 399-408.
7. Bender, M. L., and D. T. Heggie (1984), Fate of organic carbon reaching the deep sea floor: A status report, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 48, 977-986, doi:10.1016/0016-7037(84)90189-3.
8. Berelson, W. M., D. E. Hammond, and K. S. Johnson (1987), Benthic fluxes and cycling of biogenic silica and carbon in two southern California borderland basins, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 51, 1345-1363, doi:10.1016/0016-7037(87)90320- 6.
9. Berelson, W. M., J. McManus, K. H. Coale, K. S. Johnson, T. Kilgore, D. Burdige, and C. Pilskaln (1996), Biogenic matter diagenesis on the sea floor: A comparison between two continental margin transects, J. Mar. Res., 54, 731-762, doi:10.1357/0022240963213673.
10. 2 production, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 69, 4611-4629, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2005.05.011. (Pubitemid 41448183)
11. Bertine, K. K., and K. K. Turekian (1973), Molybdenum in marine deposits, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 37, 1415-1434, doi:10.1016/0016-7037(73)90080-X.
12. Böning, P., H.-J. Brumsack, M. E. Böttcher, B. Schnetger, C. Kriete, J. Kallmeyer, and S. L. Borchers (2004), Geochemistry of Peruvian near-surface sediments, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 68, 4429-4451, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2004.04.027. (Pubitemid 39447672)
13. Broecker, W. S., and T.-H. Peng (1982), Tracers in the Sea, Eldigio, Columbia Univ., Palisades, N. Y.
14. Calvert, S. E. (1966), Origin of diatom-rich, varved sediments from the Gulf of California, J. Geol., 76, 546-565.
15. Calvert, S. E., and T. F. Pedersen (1993), Geochemistry of recent oxic and anoxic marine sediments: Implications for the geological record, Mar. Geol., 113, 67-88, doi:10.1016/0025-3227(93)90150-T.
16. Chappaz, A., C. Gobeil, and A. Tessier (2008), Geochemical and anthropogenic enrichments of Mo in sediments from perennially oxic and seasonally anoxic lakes in eastern Canada, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 72, 170-184, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2007.10.014. (Pubitemid 350227035)
17. Collier, R. W. (1985), Molybdenum in the northeast Pacific Ocean, Limnol. Oceanogr., 30, 1351-1354.
18. Emerson, S. R., and S. S. Huested (1991), Ocean anoxia and the concentrations of molybdenum and vanadium in seawater, Mar. Chem., 34, 177-196, doi:10.1016/0304-4203(91)90002-E.
19. Emery, K. O. (1960), The Sea Off Southern California, John Wiley, New York.
20. Erickson, B. E., and G. R. Helz (2000), Molybdenum (VI) speciation in sulfidic waters: Stability and lability of thiomolybdates, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 64, 1149-1158.
21. Finney, B., G. R. Heath, and M. Lyle (1984), Growth rates of manganese-rich nodules at MANOP Site H (eastern North Pacific), Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 48, 911-919, doi:10.1016/0016-7037(84)90184-4.
22. Fossing, H. (1990), Sulfate reduction in shelf sediments in the upwelling region off central Peru, Cont. Shelf Res., 10, 355-367, doi:10.1016/0278- 4343(90)90056-R. Froelich, P. N., G. P. Klinkhammer, M. L. Bender, N. A.
23. Luedtke, G. R. Heath, D. Cullen, P. Dauphin, D. Hammond, B. Hartman, and V. Hartman (1979), Early oxidation of organic matter in pelagic sediments of the eastern equatorial Atlantic: Suboxic diagenesis, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 43, 1075-1090, doi:10.1016/0016-7037(79)90095-4.
24. Froelich, P. N., et al. (1988), Early diagenesis of organic matter in Peru continental margin sediments: Phosphorite precipitation, Mar. Geol., 80, 309-343, doi:10.1016/0025-3227(88)90095-3.
25. Hannah, J. L., H. J. Stein, M. E. Weisner, J. R. De Laeter, and M. D. Varner (2007), Molybdenum isotope variations in molybdenite: Vapor transport and Rayleigh fractionation of Mo, Geology, 35, 703-706, doi:10.1130/G23538A.1. (Pubitemid 47289086)
26. Hartnett, H. E., and A. H. Devol (2003), Role of a strong oxygen-deficient zone in the preservation and degradation of organic matter: A carbon budget for the continental margins of northwest Mexico and Washington State, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 67, 247-264, doi:10.1016/S0016-7037(02)01076-1. (Pubitemid 36111340)
27. Helz, G. R., C. V. Miller, J. M. Charnock, J. F. W. Mosselmans, R. A. D. Pattrick, C. D. Garner, and D. J. Vaughan (1996), Mechanism of molybdenum removal from the sea and its concentration in black shales: EXAFS evidence, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 60, 3631-3642, doi:10.1016/0016-7037(96)00195-0. (Pubitemid 126383071)
28. Helz, G. R., T. P. Vorlicek, and M. D. Kahn (2004), Molybdenum scavenging by iron monosulfide, Environ. Sci. Technol., 38, 4263-4268, doi:10.1021/es034969+. (Pubitemid 39095219)
29. Jahnke, R. A. (1990), Early diagenesis and recycling of biogenic debris at the seafloor, Santa Monica Basin, California, J. Mar. Res., 48, 413-436, doi:10.1357/002224090784988773.
30. Kaplan, I. R., K. O. Emery, and S. C. Rittenberg (1963), The distribution and isotopic abundance of sulphur in recent marine sediments off southern California, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 27, 297-331, doi:10.1016/0016-7037(63) 90074-7.
31. Klinkhammer, G. P. (1980), Early diagenesis in sediments from the eastern equatorial Pacific, II. Pore water metal results, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 49, 81-101, doi:10.1016/0012-821X(80)90151-X.
32. Leslie, B. W., D. E. Hammond, W. M. Berelson, and S. P. Lund (1990), Diagenesis in anoxic sediments from the California borderland and its influence on iron, sulfur, and magnetite behavior, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 4453-4470.
33. Liermann, L. J., R. L. Guynn, A. Anbar, and S. L. Brantley (2005), Production of a molybdophore during metal-targeted dissolution of silicates by soil bacteria, Chem. Geol., 220, 285-302, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2005.04.013. (Pubitemid 40960374)
34. Lyle, M., G. R. Heath, and J. M. Robbins (1984), Transport and release of transition elements during early diagenesis: Sequential leaching of sediments from MANOP Sites M and H. Part I. pH 5 acetic acid leach, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 48, 1705-1715, doi:10.1016/0016-7037(84)90026-7.
35. Malinovsky, D., D. Hammarlund, B. Ilyashuk, O. Martinsson, and J. Gelting (2007), Variations in the isotopic composition of molybdenum in freshwater lake systemsChem. Geol., 236, 181-198, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2006.09.006. (Pubitemid 46024318)
36. McManus, J., et al. (1998), Geochemistry of barium in marine sediments: Implications for its use as a paleoproxy, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 62, 3453-3473, doi:10.1016/S0016-7037(98)00248-8.
37. McManus, J., T. F. Nägler, C. Siebert, C. G. Wheat, and D. E. Hammond (2002), Oceanic molybdenum isotope fractionation: Diagenesis and hydrothermal ridge-flank alteration, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 3(12), 1078, doi:10.1029/2002GC000356.
38. McManus, J., W. M. Berelson, S. Severmann, R. L. Poulson, D. E. Hammond, G. P. Klinkhammer, and C. Holm (2006), Molybdenum and uranium geochemistry in continental margin sediments: Paleoproxy potential, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 70, 4643-4662, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2006.06.1564. (Pubitemid 44430773)
39. Mendel, R. R., and F. Bittner (2006), Cell biology of molybdenum, Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1763, 621-635, doi:10.1016/j.bbamcr.2006.03.013. (Pubitemid 44189541)
40. Morford, J. L., and S. Emerson (1999), The geochemistry of redox sensitive trace metals in sediments, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 63, 1735-1750, doi:10.1016/S0016-7037(99)00126-X.
41. Nägler, T. H., C. Siebert, H. Lüschen, and M. E. Böttcher (2005), Sedimentary Mo isotope record across the Holocene fresh-brackish water transition of the Black Sea, Chem. Geol., 219, 283-295, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo. 2005.03.006. (Pubitemid 40757677)
42. Nameroff, T. (1996), Suboxic Trace Metal Geochemistry and Paleo-record in Continental Margin Sediments of the Eastern Tropical North Pacific, Univ. of Wash., Seattle.
43. Nameroff, T. J., L. S. Balistrieri, and J. W. Murray (2002), Suboxic trace metal geochemistry in the eastern tropical North Pacific, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 66, 1139-1158, doi:10.1016/S0016-7037(01)00843-2. (Pubitemid 34395217)
44. Neubert, N., T. F. Nägler, and M. E. Böttcher (2008), Sulfidity controls molybdenum isotope fractionation into euxinic sediments: Evidence from the modern Black Sea, Geology, 36, 775-778, doi:10.1130/G24959A.1.
45. Potts, P. J., A. G. Tindle, and P. C. Webb (1992), Geochemical Reference Material Compositions, 313 pp., CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla.
46. Poulson, R. L., C. Siebert, J. McManus, and W. M. Berelson (2006), Authigenic molybdenum isotope signatures in marine sediments, Geology, 34, 617-620, doi:10.1130/G22485.1. (Pubitemid 44240742)
47. Reimers, C. E. (1987), An in situ microprofiling instrument for measuring interfacial pore water gradients: Methods and oxygen profiles from the North Pacific Ocean, Deep Sea Res., 34, 2019-2035, doi:10.1016/0198-0149(87)90096-3.
48. Reimers, C. E., and E. Suess (1983), Spatial and temporal patterns of organic matter accumulation on the Peru continental margin, in Coastal Upwelling: Its Sediment Record, NATA Conf. Ser. IV Mar. Sci., vol. 10B, edited by E. Suess and J. Thiede, pp. 311-345, Plenum, New York.
49. Reitz, A., M. Wille, T. F. Nägler, and G. J. De Lange (2007), Atypical Mo isotope signatures in eastern Mediterranean sediments, Chem. Geol., 245, 1-8, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo. 2007.06.018.
50. Robbins, J. M., M. Lyle, and G. R. Heath (1984), A sequential extraction procedure for partitioning elements among coexisting phases in marine sediments, Spec. Rep., 84-3, Coll. of Oceanic and Atmos. Sci., Oreg. State Univ., Corvallis.
51. Sansone, F., A. W. Graham, and W. M. Berelson (2004), Methane along the western Mexican margin, Limnol. Oceanogr., 49, 2242-2255.
52. Scott, C., T. W. Lyons, A. Bekker, Y. Shen, S. W. Poulton, X. Chu, and A. Anbar (2008), Tracing the stepwise oxygenation of the Proterozoic ocean, Nature, 452, 456-460, doi:10.1038/nature06811.
53. Shaw, T. J., J. M. Gieskes, and R. A. Jahnke (1990), Early diagenesis in differing depositional environments: The response of transition metals in pore water, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 54, 1233-1246, doi:10.1016/0016-7037(90)90149- F.
54. Siebert, C., T. F. Nägler, and J. D. Kramers (2001), Determination of molybdenum isotope fractionation by double-spike multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 2(7), 1032, doi:10.1029/2000GC000124.
55. Siebert, C., T. F. Nägler, F. Von Blanckenburg, and J. D. Kramers (2003), Molybdenum isotope records as a potential new proxy for paleoceanography, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 211, 159-171, doi:10.1016/S0012- 821X(03)00189-4. (Pubitemid 36755707)
56. Siebert, C., J. D. Kramers, T. Meisel, P. Morel, and T. F. Nägler (2005), PGE, Re-Os, and Mo isotope systematics in Archean and early Proterozoic sedimentary systems as proxies for redox conditions of the early Earth, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 69, 1787-1801, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2004.10.006. (Pubitemid 40465066)
57. Siebert, C., J. McManus, A. Bice, R. L. Poulson, and W. M. Berelson (2006), Molybdenum isotope signatures in continental margin marine sediments, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 241, 723-733, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.11.010. (Pubitemid 43092561)
58. Suess, E., L. D. Kulm, and J. S. Killingley (1986), Coastal upwelling and a history of organic-rich mudstone deposition off Peru, in Marine Petroleum Source Rocks, edited by J. Brooks and A. J. Fleet, pp. 181-197, Blackwell Sci., Oxford, U. K.
59. Sverdrup, H. V., and W. E. Allen (1939), Distribution of diatoms in relation to the character of water masses and currents off southern California in 1938, J. Mar. Res., 2, 131-144.
60. Taylor, S. R., and S. M. McLennan (1985), The Continental Crust: Its Composition and Evolution, 312 pp., Blackwell Sci., Oxford, U. K.
61. Thunell, R. C. (1998), Seasonal and annual variability in particle fluxes in the Gulf of California: A response to climate forcing, Deep Sea Res., Part I, 45, 2059-2083, doi:10.1016/S0967-0637(98)00053-3. (Pubitemid 29000557)
62. Tossell, J. A. (2005), Calculating the partitioning of the isotopes of Mo between oxidic and sulfidic species in aqueous solution, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 69, 2981-2993, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2005.01.016. (Pubitemid 40882147)
63. Tribovillard, N., A. Riboulleau, T. Lyons, and F. Baudin (2004), Enhanced trapping of molybdenum by sulfurized marine organic matter of marine origin in Mesozoic limestones and shales, Chem. Geol., 213, 385-401, doi:10.1016/j. chemgeo.2004.08.011. (Pubitemid 39660608)
64. Tribovillard, N., T. J. Algeo, T. Lyons, and A. Riboulleau (2006), Trace metals as paleoredox and paleoproductivity proxies: An update, Chem. Geol., 232, 12-32, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2006.02.012. (Pubitemid 44123513)
65. Tuit, C., J. Waterbury, and G. Ravizza (2004), Diel variation of molybdenum and iron in marine diazotrophic cyanobacteria, Limnol. Oceanogr., 49, 978-990.
66. 2.
67. Verardo, D. J., P. N. Froelich, and A. McIntyre (1990), Determination of organic carbon and nitrogen in marine sediments using the Carlo Erba NA-1500, Deep Sea Res., 37, 157-165, doi:10.1016/0198-0149(90)90034-S.
68. Vorlicek, T. P., M. D. Kahn, Y. Kasuya, and G. R. Helz (2004), Capture of molybdenum in pyrite-forming sediments: Role of ligand-induced reduction by polysulfides, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 68, 547-556, doi:10.1016/S0016-7037(03) 00444-7.
69. Wasylenki, L. E., A. D. Anbar, L. J. Liermann, R. Mathur, and G. W. Gordon (2007), Isotope fractionation during microbial uptake measured by MC-ICP-MS, J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 22, 905-910, doi:10.1039/b705476a. (Pubitemid 47169503)
70. Wasylenki, L. E., B. A. Rolfe, C. L. Weeks, T. G. Spiro, and A. D. Anbar (2008), Experimental investigation of the effects of temperature and ionic strength on Mo isotope fractionation during adsorption to manganese oxides, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 72, 5997-6005, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2008.08.027.
71. Weeks, C. L., A. D. Anbar, L. E. Wasylenki, and T. G. Spiro (2007), Density functional theory analysis of molybdenum isotope fractionation, J. Phys. Chem. A, 111, 12,434-12,438, doi:10.1021/jp074318q.
72. Wieser, M. E., and J. R. DeLaeter (2000), Molybdenum concentrations measured in eleven USGS geochemical reference materials by isotope dilution thermal ionisation mass spectrometry, J. Geostand. Geoanal., 2, 275-279.
73. Wille, M., J. D. Kramers, T. F. Nägler, N. J. Beukes, S. Schröder, T. Meisel, J. P. Lacassie, and A. R. Voegelin (2007), Evidence for a gradual rise of oxygen between 2.6 and 2.5 Ga from Mo isotopes and Re-PGE signatures in shales, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 71, 2417-2435, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2007.02.019. (Pubitemid 46667500)
74. Wille, M., T. F. Nägler, B. Lehmann, S. Schröder, and J. D. Kramers (2008), Hydrogen sulfide release to surface waters at the Precambrian/Cambrian boundary, Nature, 453, 767-769, doi:10.1038/nature07072. (Pubitemid 351793792)
75. Zheng, Y., R. F. Anderson, A. Van Geen, and J. Kuwabara (2000), Authigenic molybdenum formation in marine sediments: A link to pore water sulfide in the Santa Barbara Basin, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 64, 4165-4178, doi:10.1016/S0016-7037(00)00495-6. (Pubitemid 32169480)
76. Zheng, Y., R. F. Anderson, A. Van Geen, and M. Q. Fleisher (2002), Preservation of particulate non-lithogenic uranium in marine sediments, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 66, 3085-3092, doi:10.1016/S0016-7037(01)00632-9.