Clay minerals in Arctic Kongsfjorden surface sediments and their implications on provenance and paleoenvironmental change

SHI Fengdeng; SHI Xuefa; SU Xin; FANG Xisheng; WU Yonghua; CHENG Zhenbo; YAO Zhengquan

doi:10.1007/s13131-018-1220-6

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SHI Fengdeng, SHI Xuefa, SU Xin, FANG Xisheng, WU Yonghua, CHENG Zhenbo, YAO Zhengquan. Clay minerals in Arctic Kongsfjorden surface sediments and their implications on provenance and paleoenvironmental change[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2018, 37(5): 29-38. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1220-6

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SHI Fengdeng, SHI Xuefa, SU Xin, FANG Xisheng, WU Yonghua, CHENG Zhenbo, YAO Zhengquan. Clay minerals in Arctic Kongsfjorden surface sediments and their implications on provenance and paleoenvironmental change[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2018, 37(5): 29-38. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1220-6

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SHI Fengdeng, SHI Xuefa, SU Xin, FANG Xisheng, WU Yonghua, CHENG Zhenbo, YAO Zhengquan. Clay minerals in Arctic Kongsfjorden surface sediments and their implications on provenance and paleoenvironmental change[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2018, 37(5): 29-38. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1220-6

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Clay minerals in Arctic Kongsfjorden surface sediments and their implications on provenance and paleoenvironmental change

doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1220-6

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School of Ocean Sciences, China University of Geosciences(Beijing), Beijing 100083, China;Key Laboratory of State Oceanic Administration for Marine Sedimentology and Environmental Geology, The First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao 266061, China
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Key Laboratory of State Oceanic Administration for Marine Sedimentology and Environmental Geology, The First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao 266061, China;Laboratory for Marine Geology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266061, China
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School of Ocean Sciences, China University of Geosciences(Beijing), Beijing 100083, China

Received Date: 2017-09-01
Rev Recd Date: 2017-12-07

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Abstract

Kongsfjorden is a typical fjord on the edge of the ice cap of the Arctic Svalbard-Barents Sea. Its inner bay is connected with a modern glacier front along the direction of the fjord axis with a significant gradient change in the parameters of hydrology, sedimentation, and biology. In summer, ice and snow melt-water and floating ice collapse continuously and thus transport the weathering products on the surrounding land into the sea. Thus Kongsfjorden is regards as a natural laboratory for the study of unique sedimentation in polar fjords under modern glacial-sea water conditions. In this study, fifty-two surface sediments were collected in Kongsfjorden for clay mineral analysis to study the sediment source and sediment-transport process. Our results indicate that clay minerals in the surface sediments from Kongsfjorden are mainly composed of illite, chlorite, and kaolinite, and no smectite is found. Rocks from different periods exposed extensively in the surrounding areas of Kongsfjorden provide an important material basis for clay minerals in the Kongsfjorden. Kaolinite may be mainly derived from the fluvial deposits, weathered from reddish sandstones and conglomerates during the Carboniferous Period. Illite is mainly derived from Proterozoic low-grade and medium-grade metamorphic phyllite, mica schist, and gneiss. While chlorite is mainly from Proterozoic low-grade metamorphic phyllite and mica schist. In the direction from the fluvio-glacial estuary to the sea of the glacier front of Kongsfjorden, illite increase gradually, and the content of kaolinite declines gradually. However, the change pattern of chlorite is insignificant, which may be related to the provenance. Kongsfjorden detritus is mainly transported by the fluvio-glacial streams and icebergs into the sea and deposited in the inner bay. Coarse sediments are rapidly deposited in the glacier front, estuary, and near-shore areas. Clay fraction begins to deposit significantly by 200-400 m after flowing into the sea, which due to the crystal behavior of clay minerals, hydrodynamic condition and flocculation. Kaolinite and chlorite on the south of the bay near the Blomstrandhalvøya Island is mainly affected by ice-rafted detritus and thus can reveal the trajectory of transportation by the floating ice while entering the sea.
- Arctic Pole,
- Kongsfjorden,
- clay mineral,
- provenance,
- sedimentation

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