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Nd isotope composition of the Ediacaran and earliest Cambrian phosphorite nodules and Fe sulphide from the East European Platform

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2020

Sergey B Felitsyn Open the ORCID record for Sergey B Felitsyn [Opens in a new window]  and
Eugeny S. Bogomolov
Sergey B Felitsyn*
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Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Makarova 2, 199034St Petersburg, Russia
Eugeny S. Bogomolov
Affiliation:
Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Makarova 2, 199034St Petersburg, Russia
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Author for correspondence: Sergey B. Felitsyn, Email: felitsynsergey@gmail.com
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Abstract

An enhanced concentration of phosphorus has been found at the stratigraphic level of the disappearance of Ediacaran taxa in two areas, the Cis-Dniester region and the Moscow syneclise, on the East European Platform (EEP). The isotope composition of neodymium was determined in Fe sulphide and phosphorite in the same beds. Measured εNd(t) values in diagenetic phosphate nodules are similar to those in iron sulphide from the same layer. During the Ediacaran − Early Cambrian, accumulation of radiogenic Nd in the epeiric basins on the EEP increased progressively from −17.9 and −19.4 in pyrite from the sequence bottom to −7.9 and −8.5 in the Early Cambrian pyrite of the central part of the EEP. The Ediacaran phosphate nodules show εNd(t) ranging from −12.9 to −15.0, while that in the Early Cambrian nodules is typically c. −9.0. These data indicate the secular change in Nd isotope composition of the water reservoir on the EEP from Ediacaran to Cambrian.

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East European PlatformEdiacaranCambriandiagenetic iron sulphidephosphoriteNd isotope composition
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Geological Magazine , Volume 157 , Issue 12 , December 2020 , pp. 2081 - 2088
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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