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Os isotope dating and growth hiatuses of Co-rich crust from central Pacific

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Up to now, accurate determination of the growth age and hiatuses of the Co-rich crust is still a difficult work, which constrains the researches on the genesis, growth process, controlling factors, regional tectonics, paleo-oceanographic background, etc. of the Co-rich crust. This paper describes our work in determining the initial growth age of the Co-rich crust to be of the late Cretaceous Campanian Stage (about 75–80 Ma), by selecting the Co-rich crust with clear multi-layer structures in a central Pacific seamount for layer-by-layer sample analysis and using a number of chronological methods, such as Co flux dating, dating by correlation with 187Os/188Os evolution curves of seawater, and stratigraphic division by calcareous nannofossils. We have also discovered growth hiatuses with different time intervals in the early Paleocene, middle Eocene, late Eocene and early-middle Miocene, respectively. These results have provided an important age background for further researches on the Co-rich crust growth process and the paleo-oceanographic environment evolution thereby revealed in the said region.

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  1. School of Marine, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China

    JiangShan Li, NianQiao Fang, Xuan Ding & ChangHang Wu

  2. Key Laboratory of Marine Sedimentology and Environmental Geology of State Oceanic Administration, First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao, 266061, China

    JiangShan Li

  3. Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China

    JiangShan Li

  4. National Research Centre for Geoanalysis, Beijing, 100037, China

    WenJun Qu

  5. Hebei Polytechnic University, Tangshan, 063009, China

    LianFeng Gao & ZhenGuo Zhang

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Supported by China Ocean Mineral Resources Research and Development Association “10th Five Year” Topic (Grant No. DY105-01-04-14), International Science and Technology Cooperation Project from Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No: 2006DFB21620) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40706029)

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Li, J., Fang, N., Qu, W. et al. Os isotope dating and growth hiatuses of Co-rich crust from central Pacific. Sci. China Ser. D-Earth Sci. 51, 1452–1459 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-008-0100-x

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