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Título: Textural and isotopic evidence for Ca-Mg carbonate pedogenesis
Autores/as: Díaz-Hernández, J. L.
Sánchez-Navas, A.
Delgado, A.
Yepes, J. 
Garcia-Casco, A.
Clasificación UNESCO: 2506 Geología
Palabras clave: C and O isotopes
C stocks
Caliches
Pedogenic dolomite
Volcanic soils
Fecha de publicación: 2018
Publicación seriada: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 
Resumen: Models for evaluating the terrestrial carbon cycle must take into account not only soil organic carbon, represented by a mixture of plant and animal remains, but also soil inorganic carbon, contained in minerals, mainly in calcite and dolomite. Thick soil caliches derived from weathering of mafic and ultramafic rocks must be considered as sinks for carbon storage in soils. The formation of calcite and dolomite from pedogenic alteration of volcanic tephras under an aridic moisture regime is studied in an unusually thick 3-m soil profile on Gran Canaria island (Canary Islands, Spain). The biological activity of the pedogenic environment (soil respiration) releases CO 2 incorporated as dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) in waters. It drives the formation of low-magnesian calcite and calcian dolomite over basaltic substrates, with a δ 13 C negative signature (−8 to −6‰ vs. V-PDB). Precipitation of authigenic carbonates in the soil is accompanied by the formation of Mg-rich clay minerals and quartz after the weathering of basalts. Mineralogical, textural, compositional, and isotopic variations throughout the soil profile studied indicate that dolomite formed at greater depths and earlier than the calcite. The isotopic signatures of the surficial calcite and deeper dolomite crusts are primary and resulted from the dissolution-precipitation cycles that led to the formation of both types of caliches under different physicochemical conditions. Dolomite formed within a clay-rich matrix through diffusive transport of reactants. It is precipitated from water with more negative δ 18 O values (−1.5 to −3.5‰ vs. V-SMOW) in the subsoil compared to those of water in equilibrium with surficial calcite. Thus, calcite precipitated after dolomite, and directly from percolating solutions in equilibrium with vadose water enriched in δ 18 O (−0.5 to +1.5‰) due to the evaporation processes. The accumulation of inorganic carbon reaches 586.1 kg m −2 in the soil studied, which means that the carbon sequestration capacity of mafic rocks must be taken into account for certain terrestrial settings. Dolomite together with calcite should be assessed when quantifying carbon stored in arid-semiarid soils as a result of the natural weathering processes.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/30030
ISSN: 0016-7037
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2017.11.006
Fuente: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta[ISSN 0016-7037],v. 222, p. 485-507
URL: http://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85035035533
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