Volume 51, Number 7, 513-524, DOI: 10.1134/S1075701509070010

The geochemical and genetic role of organic substances in postmagmatic derivatives of alkaline plutons

V. N. Ermolaeva, N. V. Chukanov, I. V. Pekov and L. N. Kogarko

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Abstract

Solid bituminous substances (SBS) are common components of the late hydrothermal mineral assemblages of peralkaline pegmatites. SBS are formed in a reductive setting as a result of progressive sorption of minor carbon-bearing molecules (CO, CO2, CH4, C2H6, C2H4, etc.), their polymerization, transformation into aromatic compounds (reformation), and selective oxidation on microporous zeolite-like Ti-, Nb-, and Zrsilicates serving as sorbents and catalysts. The oxygen-bearing aromatic compounds with hydrophile functional groups (−OH, −C=O, −COOH, −COO) act as complexing agents with respect to Th, REE, U, Zr, Ti, Nb, Ba, Sr, Ca, resulting in transfer of these bitumenophile elements under low-temperature hydrothermal conditions in the form of water-soluble macroassociates of the micelle type. Th, REE, and to a lesser extent, U, Zr, Ti, and Nb concentrate at the late stage of the hydrothermal process as microphases impregnating SBS or macroscopic segregations of Th and REE minerals. At the final stage, homogeneous SBS break down into organic (partly together with Ca, Sr, Ba, and Pb) and mineral (with Th, Ln, Y, Ti, Nb, Ca, Na, K, Si) microphases.
Original Russian Text © V.N. Ermolaeva, N.V. Chukanov, I.V. Pekov, L.N. Kogarko, 2009, published in Zapiski RMO (Proceedings of the Russian Mineralogical Society), 2009, Pt. CXXXVII, No. 5, pp. 17–33.

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