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Geoscience ›› 2023, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (03): 813-820.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2022.098

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REE Geochemistry and Its Environmental Significance of Subsurface Black Soil from Northwestern Arongqi, Songnen Plain Black Soil District

DU Guanxin1(), YAN Baiquan1, SUN Yu1(), QIAN Cheng2, QIN Tao2, ZANG Yanqing2   

  1. 1. School of Earth Science, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing, Heilongjiang 163318, China
    2. Shenyang Center of Geological Survey, China Geological Survey,Shenyang,Liaoning 110034, China
  • Received:2022-06-02 Revised:2022-11-13 Online:2023-06-10 Published:2023-07-20

Abstract:

Formation of black soil in Northeast China has long been a research focus in the academia, but anthropological activities have influenced the study of surficial black soil to varying degrees. At present, there is a paucity of research on the underground black soil. In this study, the black soil from drill-cores at Arongqi of the Songnen Plain was sampled for REE geochemical analysis. Distributions of ΣREE, HREE and LREE elements of the deep black soil layer were analyzed by geostatistics. Combined with the Ce anomaly, Eu anomaly, (La/Yb)N, (La/Sm)N, (Gd/Yb)N, Al2O3 vs. TiO2 diagram and Ceanom, the provenance and formation environment of the black soil are discussed. The results show that the subsurface black soil at Arongqi have high ΣREE content (avg. 141.45 mg·kg-1). The right-inclining chondrite-normalized patterns show LREE enrichments, with weak negative Eu and strong negative Ce anomalies. The average (La/Yb)N =7.58, (La/Sm)N=1.14, and (Gd/Yb)N=3.54, indicating that the HREEs and LREEs are highly fractionated, and the LREE fractionation is stronger than that of HREE. The δEu and Al2O3/TiO2 diagram indicate that the subsurface black soil was sourced from the nearby Cretaceous felsic-intermediate magmatic rocks. The Ceanom >-0.1 (mean 3.9)suggests an anoxic environment.

Key words: black soil, environmental significance, rare earth element, Arongqi, provenance study

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