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Mottl, Michael J (1989): Pore-water chemistry of ODP sites 111-677 and 111-678 [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.754027, Supplement to: Mottl, MJ (1989): Hydrothermal convection, reaction, and diffusion in sediments on the Costa Rica Rift flank: pore-water evidence from ODP Sites 677 and 678. In: Becker, K; Sakai, H; et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 111, 195-213, https://doi.org/10.2973/odp.proc.sr.111.125.1989

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Abstract:
Sites 677 and 678 were drilled on ODP Leg 111 to test hypotheses about the nature and pattern of hydrothermal circulation on a mid-ocean ridge flank. Together with earlier results from DSDP Site 501/504 and several heatflow and piston coring surveys covering a 100-km**2 area surrounding the three drill sites, they confirm that hydrothermal circulation persists in this 5.9-m.y.-old crust, both in basement and through the overlying sediments (Langseth et al., 1988, doi:10.2973/odp.proc.ir.111.102.1988).
Profiles of sediment pore-water composition with depth at the three drill sites show both vertical and horizontal gradients. The shapes of the profiles and their variation from one site to another result from a combination of vertical and horizontal diffusion, convection, and reaction in the sediments and basement. Chemical species that are highly reactive in the siliceous-calcareous biogenic sediments include bicarbonate (alkalinity), ammonium, sulfate, manganese, calcium, strontium, lithium, silica, and possibly potassium. Reactions include bacterial sulfate reduction, mobilization of Mn2+, precipitation of CaCO3, and recrystallization of calcareous and siliceous oozes to chalk, limestone, and chert. Species with profiles more affected by reaction in basaltic basement than in the sediments include Mg, Ca, Na, K, and oxygen isotopes. Reaction in basement at 60∞C and at higher temperatures has produced a highly altered basement formation water that is uniform in composition over distances of several kilometers. As inferred from the composition of the basal sediment pore water at the three sites, this uniformity extends from up flow zone to downflow zone in basement and the sediments. It exists in spite of large variations in heat flow and depth to basement, apparently as a result of homogenization by hydrothermal circulation in basement.
Profiles for chlorinity, Na, Mg, and other species in the sediment pore waters confirm that Site 678, drilled on a localized heatflow high identified by Langseth et al. (1988), is a site of long-lived upwelling of warm water from basement through the sediments at velocities of 1 to 2 mm/yr. The upflow through the anomalously thin sediments is apparently localized above an uplifted fault block in basement. This site and other similar sites in the survey area give rise to lateral diffusion and possibly flow through the sediments, which produces lateral gradients in sediment pore-water composition at sites such as 501/504. The complementary pore-water profiles at the low-heatflow Site 677 2 km to the south indicate that downflow is occurring through the sediments there, at comparable rates of 1 to 2 mm/yr.
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Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 1.205537 * Median Longitude: -83.733780 * South-bound Latitude: 1.202000 * West-bound Longitude: -83.737000 * North-bound Latitude: 1.216800 * East-bound Longitude: -83.723200
Date/Time Start: 1986-09-30T09:45:00 * Date/Time End: 1986-10-05T06:00:00
Event(s):
111-677A * Latitude: 1.202300 * Longitude: -83.737000 * Date/Time Start: 1986-09-30T09:45:00 * Date/Time End: 1986-10-03T15:15:00 * Elevation: -3472.0 m * Penetration: 309.4 m * Recovery: 279.44 m * Location: North Pacific Ocean * Campaign: Leg111 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 34 cores; 309.4 m cored; 0 m drilled; 90.3 % recovery
111-677B * Latitude: 1.202400 * Longitude: -83.737000 * Date/Time Start: 1986-10-03T15:15:00 * Date/Time End: 1986-10-04T08:30:00 * Elevation: -3473.0 m * Penetration: 93.1 m * Recovery: 93.03 m * Location: North Pacific Ocean * Campaign: Leg111 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 10 cores; 93.1 m cored; 0 m drilled; 99.9 % recovery
111-678B * Latitude: 1.216800 * Longitude: -83.723200 * Date/Time Start: 1986-10-04T15:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1986-10-05T06:00:00 * Elevation: -3465.0 m * Penetration: 171.8 m * Recovery: 27.72 m * Location: North Pacific Ocean * Campaign: Leg111 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 4 cores; 28.8 m cored; 0 m drilled; 96.2 % recovery
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  1. Mottl, MJ (1989): (Table 1) Composition of sediment pore waters from ODP sites 111-677 and 111-678. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.754024
  2. Mottl, MJ (1989): (Table 1) Composition of seawater. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.754025