ISOTOPE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WATER AND SEDIMENT IN VOLCANIC LAKE SAINT ANA, EAST-CARPATHIANS, ROMANIA
Marianna TÚRI1, László PALCSU1, László PAPP1, Anikó HORVÁTH1, István FUTÓ1, Mihály MOLNÁR1, László RINYU1, Róbert JANOVICS1, Mihály BRAUN1, Katalin HUBAY1, Boglárka Mercédesz KIS2 & Gabriella KOLTAI3
1Institute for Nuclear Research Hungarian Academy of Sciences H-4026 Debrecen, Bem tér 18/C turi.marianna@atomki.mta.hu, palcsu.laszlo@atomki.mta.hu, lpapp@atomki.hu, horvatha@atomki.mta.hu, futo@atomki.mta.hu, mmol@atomki.mta.hu,rinyu.laszlo@atomki.mta.hu, janovics@atomki.hu, mbraun@atomki.mta.hu, hubayk@atomki.mta.hu
2Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Petrology and Geochemistry, Litosphere Fluid Reseach Lab, H-1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C kisboglarka85@gmail.com
3University of Innsbruck, Institute of Geology, Austria 6020 Innsbruck, Innrain 52, gabriella.koltai@uibk.ac.at
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Abstract
The paper gives the results of an isotope investigation carried out on the waters of the crater-lake, Lake Saint Ana (Sf. Ana), of the Ciomadul Mountain, which is located in the Harghita Mountains of the East Carpathians in Romania. The main purpose of this study was to ivestigate the isotope signature of the lake water. The collected water samples were examined for stable carbon, oxygen and hydrogen isotopes, and for noble gas concentrations, and, in addition, for radiocarbon and tritium. Sediment samples were collected for tritium measurement. The measured stable oxygen and hydrogen shows that the lake was subject to mixing before the sampling and there is ~50 % evaporation loss. The stable carbon analysis shows that there is an abundant volume of volcanic degassed CO2 surplus which can be derived from the mantle. The 14C activity of the lake’s dissolved inorganic carbon is significantly less than the 14C content of recent atmospheric carbon. This reservoir effect is supposed to be caused by the volcanic degassed CO2 with no 14C content. Depletion of radiocarbon in the order of 85–92.5 pMC could indicate a reservoir age of 950–1650 years. The tritium values of the lake water confirm the mixing theory of the lake and the tritium content of the sediment pore water shows that the lake discharges into the Ciomadul Mountain. The helium isotope ratios indicate a minor helium flux of mantle origin.
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- Lake
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- Ana
- Carpathians
- Hydrology
- Isotopes
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Marianna TÚRI, László PALCSU, László PAPP, Anikó HORVÁTH, István FUTÓ, Mihály MOLNÁR, László RINYU, Róbert JANOVICS, Mihály BRAUN, Katalin HUBAY, Boglárka Mercédesz KIS & Gabriella KOLTAI (2016). ISOTOPE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WATER AND SEDIMENT IN VOLCANIC LAKE SAINT ANA, EAST-CARPATHIANS, ROMANIA
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