Electromagnetic, rock magnetic, and geochemical properties of surficial sediments in Eckernförde Bay


Autoria(s): Müller, Hendrik; von Dobeneck, Tilo; Nehmiz, Wiebke; Hamer, Kay
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MEDIAN LATITUDE: 54.482938 * MEDIAN LONGITUDE: 10.017521 * SOUTH-BOUND LATITUDE: 54.480518 * WEST-BOUND LONGITUDE: 10.011703 * NORTH-BOUND LATITUDE: 54.485000 * EAST-BOUND LONGITUDE: 10.021000

Data(s)

10/06/2011

Resumo

Submarine groundwater discharge in coastal settings can massively modify the hydraulic and geochemical conditions of the seafloor. Resulting local anomalies in the morphology and physical properties of surface sediments are usually explored with seismo-acoustic imaging techniques. Controlled source electromagnetic imaging offers an innovative dual approach to seep characterization by its ability to detect pore-water electrical conductivity, hence salinity, as well as sediment magnetic susceptibility, hence preservation or diagenetic alteration of iron oxides. The newly developed electromagnetic (EM) profiler Neridis II successfully realized this concept for a first time with a high-resolution survey of freshwater seeps in Eckernförde Bay (SW Baltic Sea). We demonstrate that EM profiling, complemented and validated by acoustic as well as sample-based rock magnetic and geochemical methods, can create a crisp and revealing fingerprint image of freshwater seepage and related reductive alteration of near-surface sediments. Our findings imply that (1) freshwater penetrates the pore space of Holocene mud sediments by both diffuse and focused advection, (2) pockmarks are marked by focused freshwater seepage, underlying sand highs, reduced mud thickness, higher porosity, fining of grain size, and anoxic conditions, (3) depletion of Fe oxides, especially magnetite, is more pervasive within pockmarks due to higher concentrations of organic and sulfidic reaction partners, and (4) freshwater advection reduces sediment magnetic susceptibility by a combination of pore-water injection (dilution) and magnetite reduction (depletion). The conductivity vs. susceptibility biplot resolves subtle lateral litho- and hydrofacies variations.

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application/zip, 8 datasets

Identificador

https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.761626

doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.761626

Idioma(s)

en

Publicador

PANGAEA

Direitos

CC-BY: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Access constraints: unrestricted

Fonte

Supplement to: Müller, Hendrik; von Dobeneck, Tilo; Nehmiz, Wiebke; Hamer, Kay (2011): Near-surface electromagnetic, rock magnetic, and geochemical fingerprinting of submarine freshwater seepage at Eckernförde Bay (SW Baltic Sea). Geo-Marine Letters, 31(2), 123-140, doi:10.1007/s00367-010-0220-0

Palavras-Chave #[SO4]2-; Anhysteretic remanent magnetization/saturation isothermal remanent magnetization ratio; ARM, Intensity, per unit volume; ARM/SIRM; Bathy depth; below sea level; Carbon, organic, total; Center for Marine Environmental Sciences; Chloride; Cl-; Class; Comment; Cond; Conductivity; CTD; Depth; Depth, bathymetric; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Depth of reflector; Depth refl; Eckernfoerder Bay, Western Baltic Sea; Electromagnetic sensor (Aeroquest Sensortech Ltd. GEM-3); Event; Fe; GC; Gravity corer; Inten (ARM); Iron; JPEG, overview, ~500 KB; kappa; Label; Latitude; LATITUDE; Line; Location type; Loc type; Longitude; LONGITUDE; Magnetization; Magnetometer, GSM-19M, Marine Overhauser; MARUM; measured in lab; Mittelgrund; Mittelgrund_K2; Mittelgrund_K3; Mittelgrund_K5; MULT; Multiple investigations; Oasis montaj GRD, ~ 2 MB; of bottom water; of mud below sea floor; Poros; Porosity; Sample code/label; S-r; S-ratio (Hematite/Magnetite); Sub-bottom profiler, StrataBox 10 kHz, SyQuest; Sulfate; Susceptibility, volume; Thickness; Thn; TIFF, ~10 MB; TOC; Uniform resource locator/link to graphic; Uniform resource locator/link to raw data file; URL graphic; URL raw; UTM east; UTM Easting, Universal Transverse Mercator; UTM north; UTM Northing, Universal Transverse Mercator; UTM Zone; UTM Zone, Universal Transverse Mercator
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