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Chambers, Steven R (1991): Interstitial-water chemistry and stable isotope record of Prydz Bay sediments [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.758175, Supplement to: Chambers, SR (1991): Solute distributions and stable isotope chemistry of interstitial waters from Prydz Bay, Antarctica. In: Barron, J; Larsen, B; et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 119, 375-392, https://doi.org/10.2973/odp.proc.sr.119.170.1991

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Abstract:
Leg 119 of the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) provided the first opportunity to study the interstitial-water chemistry of the eastern Antarctic continental margin. Five sites were cored in a northwest-southeast transect of Prydz Bay that extended from the top of the continental slope to within 30 km of the coastline. Geological studies of the cores reveal a continental margin that has evolved through terrestrial, glacial, and glacial-marine environments. Chemical and stable isotopic analyses of the interstitial-waters were performed to determine the types of depositional environments and the diagenetic and hydrologic processes that are operating in this unusual marine environment.
Highly compacted glacial sediments provide an effective barrier to the vertical diffusion of interstitial-water solutes. Meteoric water from the Antarctic continent appears to be flowing into Prydz Bay sediments through the sequence of terrestrial sediments that lie underneath the glacial sediments. The large amounts of erosion associated with glacial advances appear to have had the effect of limiting the amount of marine organic matter that is incorporated into the sediments on the continental shelf. Although all of the sites cored in Prydz Bay exhibit depletions in dissolved sulfate with increasing depth, the greatest bacterial activity is associated with a thin layer of diatom ooze that coats the seafloor of the inner bay. Results of alkalinity modeling, thermodynamic calculations, and strontium analyses indicate that (1) ocean bottom waters seaward of Site 740 are undersaturated with respect to both calcite and aragonite, (2) interstitial waters at each site become saturated or supersaturated with respect to calcite and aragonite with increasing depth, (3) precipitation of calcium carbonate reduces the alkalinity of the pore waters with increasing depth, and (4) recrystallization of aragonite to calcite accounts for 24% of the pore-water strontium. Weathering of unstable terrestrial debris and cation exchange between clay minerals and pore fluids are the most probable chemical processes affecting interstitial water cation gradients.
Project(s):
Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: -67.860967 * Median Longitude: 75.713213 * South-bound Latitude: -68.764000 * West-bound Longitude: 74.690500 * North-bound Latitude: -66.916000 * East-bound Longitude: 76.681900
Date/Time Start: 1988-01-19T03:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1988-02-03T20:00:00
Event(s):
119-739C * Latitude: -67.285000 * Longitude: 75.081800 * Date/Time Start: 1988-01-19T03:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1988-01-23T05:30:00 * Elevation: -423.0 m * Penetration: 486.8 m * Recovery: 168.5 m * Location: Prydz Bay * Campaign: Leg119 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 62 cores; 486.8 m cored; 0 m drilled; 34.6 % recovery
119-740A * Latitude: -68.764000 * Longitude: 76.681900 * Date/Time Start: 1988-01-23T18:30:00 * Date/Time End: 1988-01-27T13:15:00 * Elevation: -818.0 m * Penetration: 225.5 m * Recovery: 72.19 m * Location: Prydz Bay * Campaign: Leg119 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 31 core; 225.5 m cored; 0 m drilled; 32 % recovery
119-740B * Latitude: -68.764000 * Longitude: 76.681900 * Date/Time Start: 1988-01-27T13:15:00 * Date/Time End: 1988-01-27T18:00:00 * Elevation: -825.0 m * Penetration: 1.6 m * Recovery: 1.6 m * Location: Prydz Bay * Campaign: Leg119 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 1 core; 1.6 m cored; 0 m drilled; 100 % recovery
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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  1. Chambers, SR (1991): (Table 1) Organic carbon and calcium carbonate contents of sediment minicores and interstitial-water salinity, chloride concentrations, and charg-imbalance of ODP Leg 119 Prydz Bay sites. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.758171
  2. Chambers, SR (1991): (Table 4) Interstitial-water oxygen and hydrogen isotope ratios for ODP Leg 119 Prydz Bay sites. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.758174
  3. Chambers, SR (1991): (Table 3) Interstitial-water major cation concentrations for ODP Leg 119 Prydz Bay sites. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.758173
  4. Chambers, SR (1991): (Table 2) Interstitial-water nutrients of ODP Leg 119 Prydz Bay sites. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.758172