Isotopic geochemistry of Panama rivers

Russell S. Harmon; Gerhard Worner; Michael Pribil; Zoltan Kern; Istvan Forizs; W. Berry Lyons; Christopher B. Gardner; Steven T. Goldsmith

doi:10.1016/j.proeps.2015.07.026

Isotopic geochemistry of Panama rivers

Procedia Earth and Planetary Science

By: Russell S. Harmon, Gerhard Worner, Michael Pribil, Zoltan Kern, Istvan Forizs, W. Berry Lyons, Christopher B. Gardner, and Steven T. Goldsmith

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeps.2015.07.026

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Abstract

River water samples collected from 78 watersheds rivers along a 500-km transect across a Late Cretaceous-Tertiary andesitic volcanic arc terrane in west-central Panama provide a synoptic overview of riverine geochemistry, chemical denudation, and CO₂ consumption in the tropics. D/H and ¹⁸O/¹⁶O relationships indicate that bedrock dissolution of andesitic arc crust in Panama is driven by water-rock interaction with meteoric precipitation as it passes through the critical zone, with no evidence of a geothermal or hydrothermal input. Sr-isotope relationships suggest a geochemical evolution for Panama riverine waters that involves mixing of bedrock pore water with water having ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios between 0.7037-0.7043 and relatively high Sr-contents with waters of low Sr content that enriched in radiogenic Sr that are diluted by infiltrating rainfall to variable extents.

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Publication type	Article
Publication Subtype	Journal Article
Title	Isotopic geochemistry of Panama rivers
Series title	Procedia Earth and Planetary Science
DOI	10.1016/j.proeps.2015.07.026
Volume	13
Year Published	2015
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier
Contributing office(s)	Central Mineral and Environmental Resources Science Center
Description	4 p.
First page	108
Last page	111
Country	Panama
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