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Characteristics of Authigenic Minerals from the Northern South China Sea

  • ZHANG Mei ,
  • WU Dai-dai ,
  • WU Neng-you
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  • 1. Key Laboratory of Gas Hydrate, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China;
    2. Guangzhou Center for Gas Hydrate Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China;
    3. The Key Laboratory of Gas Hydrate, Ministry of Land and Resources, Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology, Qingdao 266071, China

Received date: 2015-12-03

  Revised date: 2015-12-25

  Online published: 2015-02-28

Abstract

Authigenic carbonates, pyrite and gypsum were the main minerals associated with cold seeps or gas hydrate in the Nansha Trough, Shenhu areas, southwestern and northeastern of Dongsha from the northern South China Sea. The northeastern Dongsha are the most authigenic minerals-riched area in northern South China Sea. These authigenic carbonates consist of concretions, nodules, chimneys, massive blocks. Mineralogically, the carbonates in Shenhu and southwest Dongsha samples are dominated by dolomite, and aragonite are mainly composed of the samples from Xisha trough, high-Mg calcite are composed of the samples from northeast Dongsha samples. The carbon and oxygen isotopes of carbonate indicated 13C-depleted and 18O-enriched sources which are identical to the ones retrieved at cold seeps or gas hydrate sites. The authigenic pyrite are rods and mainly composed of framboids pyrite, it has the high δ34S value which may result from anaerobic oxidation of methane in gas hydrate-bearing sediment in a close system. Gypsum are mainly collected from shenhu and northeast Dongsha, it has spherical or massive morphology, and shows a transparent and euhedral shape. The characteristic of these authigenic minerals in northern South China Sea provided the minerals evidence to the gas hydrate exploration in the future.

Cite this article

ZHANG Mei , WU Dai-dai , WU Neng-you . Characteristics of Authigenic Minerals from the Northern South China Sea[J]. Advances in New and Renewable Energy, 2016 , 4(1) : 20 -27 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-560X.2016.01.004

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