| Abstract: | Rhenium and osmium abundances and osmium isotopic compositions were determined by negative thermal ionization mass spectrometry for samples of Devonian black shale and an associated Ni-enriched sulfide layer from the Yukon Territory, Canada. The same composition information was also obtained for samples of early Cambrian Ni-Mo-rich sulfide layers hosted in black shale in Guizhou and Hunan provinces, China. This study was undertaken to constrain the origin of the PGE enrichment in the sulfide layers. Samples of the Ni sulfide layer from the Yukon Territory are highly enriched in Re, Os, and other PGE, with distinctly higher Re/192Os but similar Pt/Re, compared to the black shale host. Re-Os isotopic data of the black shale and the sulfide layer are approximately isochronous, and the data plot close to reference isochrons which bracket the depositional age of the enclosing shales. Samples of the Chinese sulfide layers are also highly enriched in Re, Os, and the other PGE. Re/192Os are lower than in the Yukon sulfide layer. Re-Os isotopic data for the sulfide layers lie near a reference isochron with an age of 560 Ma, similar to the depositional age of the black shale host. The osmium isotopic data suggest that Re and PGE enrichment of the brecciated sulfide layers in both the Yukon Territory and in southern China may have occurred near the time of sediment deposition or during early diagenesis, during the middle to late Devonian and early Cambrian, respectively. ?? 1994. |
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| Citation Author: | Horan, M. F.; Morgan, J. W.; Grauch, R. I.; Coveney, Jr. , R. M.; Murowchick, J. B.; Hulbert, L. J. |
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| Citation Larger Work Title: | Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Rhenium and osmium isotopes in black shales and Ni-Mo-PGE-rich sulfide layers, Yukon Territory, Canada, and Hunan and Guizhou provinces, China; 1994; Article; Journal; Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta; Horan, M. F.; Morgan, J. W.; Grauch, R. I.; Coveney, Jr. , R. M.; Murowchick, J. B.; Hulbert, L. J. |
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| Citation Volume: | 58 |
| Citation Year: | 1994 |
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| Text: | Rhenium and osmium isotopes in black shales and Ni-Mo-PGE-rich sulfide layers, Yukon Territory, Canada, and Hunan and Guizhou provinces, China; 1994; Article; Journal; Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta; Horan, M. F.; Morgan, J. W.; Grauch, R. I.; Coveney, Jr. , R. M.; Murowchick, J. B.; Hulbert, L. J. |
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