Abstract
The geochemical and isotopic composition of terrigenous clays from marine sediments can provide important information on the sources and pathways of sediments. In order to extract the detrital signal from bulk marine sediments, standard sediment leaching methods are commonly applied to remove carbonate and ferromanganese oxides. In comparison to most previous studies that aimed to extract the terrestrial signal from marine sediments we additionally applied a CsCl wash throughout the sample preparation Simon et al. [1]. The motivation behind that extra step, not frequently applied, is to remove ions that are gained on the clay surface due to re-adsorption of authigenic trace metals in the ocean or during the leaching procedure and thus could alter the original composition of the detrital fraction if no cation exchange was applied. Here we present an improved and detailed step-by-step leaching protocol for the extraction of the detrital fraction of bulk deep-sea sediments including commonly used buffered acetic acid and acid-reductive mix solutions including a final cation exchange wash.•standard method to remove carbonate and ferromanganese oxides and Stokes settling to isolate the clay fractions•additional application of cation cation exchange wash (CsCl)•removal of ions that are gained on the clay surface due to adsorption of authigenic trace metals in the ocean or during the leaching procedure
Highlights
Standard method to remove carbonate and ferromanganese oxides and Stokes settling to isolate the clay fractions
Removal of ions that are gained on the clay surface due to adsorption of authigenic trace metals in the ocean or during the leaching procedure
Earth and Planetary Sciences Sediment leaching protocol including a cation exchange wash The following method is a sediment leaching procedure for marine sediments that can be applied to approximately a batch of 10–20 samples at the time
Summary
In order to extract the detrital signal from bulk marine sediments, standard sediment leaching methods are commonly applied to remove carbonate and ferromanganese oxides. The motivation behind that extra step, not frequently applied, is to remove ions that are gained on the clay surface due to re-adsorption of authigenic trace metals in the ocean or during the leaching procedure and could alter the original composition of the detrital fraction if no cation exchange was applied. Additional application of cation cation exchange wash (CsCl) removal of ions that are gained on the clay surface due to adsorption of authigenic trace metals in the ocean or during the leaching procedure. Earth and Planetary Sciences Sediment leaching protocol including a cation exchange wash The following method is a sediment leaching procedure for marine sediments that can be applied to approximately a batch of 10–20 samples at the time. Procedures in part modified after [2]
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