Sabatino, Nadia; Neri, Rodolfo; Bellanca, Adriana; Jenkyns, Hugh C; Masetti, D; Scopelliti, G (2011): Analysis of manganese deposits from the Alps [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.870912, Supplement to: Sabatino, N et al. (2011): Petrography and high-resolution geochemical records of Lower Jurassic manganese-rich deposits from Monte Mangart, Julian Alps. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 299(1-2), 97-109, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.10.039
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Abstract:
Deposits with unusually high Mn contents sampled at Monte Mangart in the Julian Alps include organic-rich marlstone and black shale with interbedded manganoan and siliceous limestone, which were deposited during the early Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event. Mn enrichment during that period has been related to global sea-level change coincident with increasing subsidence rate. The formation of Fe-Mn nodules, marking a hardground at the base of the Monte Mangart section, seems to be triggered by release of Mn from remote hydrothermal vents into a region of relatively elevated submarine topography where oxidizing conditions prevailed. However, very high Mn contents in carbonate phases above the hardground imply an additional diagenetic source of this element in the lower part of this section. The whole stratigraphic sequence (ca 30 m) displays a transition from Mn-rich (up to 8.8%) sediments, in the lower part, to Mn-poor (less than 1.8%) sediments in the middle and upper parts. The drastic decrease in Mn content's up-section is accompanied by a clear decrease in the mean size of pyrite framboids, indicating more intense anoxia/euxinia in the water column. In the presence of Mn2+, conditions of high alkalinity induced precipitation of Mn carbonates during early diagenetic processes. Negative [delta]13Ccarb values coincident with high Mn contents indicate involvement of organic matter in the mineralization process. The striking similarity of Ce/Ce* and Mn profiles demonstrates that, consistent with redox-chemistry of Mn and Ce under anoxic conditions, Ce3+ and Mn2+ were mobilized and released into pore water where precipitation of Mn carbonates occurred.
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Grant, John Bruce; Moore, Carla J; Alameddin, George; Chen, Kuiying; Barton, Mark (1992): The NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database. National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, https://doi.org/10.7289/V52Z13FT
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Field view of the hardground layer with Fe–Mn nodules at the bottom of the Lower Toarcian Mn-rich sediments (Unit 3) overlaying red limestone (Unit2), Monte Mangart, Slovenia
Warnken, Robin R; Virden, William T; Moore, Carla J (1992): The NOAA and MMS Marine Minerals Bibliography. National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, https://doi.org/10.7289/V53X84KN
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From 1983 until 1989 NOAA-NCEI compiled the NOAA-MMS Marine Minerals Geochemical Database from journal articles, technical reports and unpublished sources from other institutions. At the time it was the most extended data compilation on ferromanganese deposits world wide. Initially published in a proprietary format incompatible with present day standards it was jointly decided by AWI and NOAA to transcribe this legacy data into PANGAEA. This transfer is augmented by a careful checking of the original sources when available and the encoding of ancillary information (sample description, method of analysis...) not present in the NOAA-MMS database.
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- Sabatino, N; Neri, R; Bellanca, A et al. (2011): Annotated record of the detailed examination of Mn deposits from Monte Mangart saddle, Slovenia. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.870910
- Sabatino, N; Neri, R; Bellanca, A et al. (2011): (Table 1, pages 101-103) Geochemical properties of manganese nodules overlaying a red limestone formation in the Monte Mangart section. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.870911