Elemental compositions of crab and snail shells from the Kueishantao hydrothermal field in the southwestern Okinawa Trough
| Autor: | Zhigang Zeng, Xuebo Yin, Xiaoyuan Wang, Wei Jiang, Suping Zhang, Chen-Tung Arthur Chen, Junlong Zhang, Yao Ma |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Biogeochemical cycle
biology Rare-earth element Geochemistry Trough (geology) Anachis Snail 010501 environmental sciences Aquatic Science 010502 geochemistry & geophysics Oceanography biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Hydrothermal circulation Seafloor spreading Paleontology Benthic zone biology.animal Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Marine Systems. 180:90-101 |
| ISSN: | 0924-7963 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2016.08.012 |
| Popis: | To reveal differences in the behavior of benthic vent animals, and the sources and sinks of biogeochemical and fluid circulations, it is necessary to constrain the chemical characteristics of benthic animals from seafloor hydrothermal fields. We measured the abundances of 27 elements in shells of the crab Xenograpsus testudinatus and the snail Anachis sp., collected from the Kueishantao hydrothermal field (KHF) in the southwestern Okinawa Trough, with the aim of improving our understanding of the compositional variations between individual vent organisms, and the sources of the rare earth elements (REEs) in their shells. The Mn, Hg, and K concentrations in the male X. testudinatus shells are found to be higher than those in female crab shells, whereas the reverse is true for the accumulation of B, implying that the accumulation of K, Mn, Hg, and B in the crab shells is influenced by sex. This is inferred to be a result of the asynchronous molting of the male and female crab shells. Snail shells are found to have higher Ca, Al, Fe, Ni, and Co concentrations than crab shells. This may be attributed to different metal accumulation times. The majority of the light rare earth element (LREE) distribution patterns in the crab and snail shells are similar to those of Kueishantao vent fluids, with the crab and snail shells also exhibiting LREE enrichment, implying that the LREEs contained in crab and snail shells in the KHF are derived from vent fluids. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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