10.1594/PANGAEA.712117
Evans, Noreen J
Noreen J
Evans
0000-0002-7615-8328
Ahrens, Thomas J
Thomas J
Ahrens
Gregoire, D C
D C
Gregoire
Platinum-group element abundances in background samples and the K-T boundary interval from DSDP Hole 91-596 (Table 2)
PANGAEA
1995
Sample code/label
Rubidium
Iridium
Platinum
Palladium
Rubidium/Iridium ratio
Drilling/drill rig
DSDP/ODP/IODP sample designation
Inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometry (ICP-MS)
Calculated
Leg91
Glomar Challenger
Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP)
1983-02-12T00:00:00
en
Supplementary Dataset
10.1016/0012-821X(95)00117-U
72 data points
text/tab-separated-values
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
New data on Ru/Ir abundance ratios are presented for nonmarine (Hell Creek, Montana; Frenchman River, Saskatchewan) and marine Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary sites (Brazos River, Texas; Beloc, Haiti; DSDP 577 and DSDP 596). The Ru/Ir ratio varies from 0.5 to 1 within 4000 km of Chicxulub and increases to 2-3 at paleodistances (65 Ma) of up to 12,000 km from the impact site. For CI chondrites, Ru/Ir = 1.5. A ballistic model of ejecta cloud cooling and expansion, which employs the available vapor-pressure versus temperature data for Ru and It, predicts qualitatively similar global variation in the Ru/Ir ratio but by only a factor of 1.5. We infer that several other factors, such as remobilization of PGE during diagenesis, preferential oxidation of Ru, condensation kinetics and atmospheric chemical and circulation processes, may account for the observed larger Ru/Ir variation.
Samples from sections 2 and 6 indicate background PGE levels, All other samples are of the K-T- noundary interval
Supplement to: Evans, Noreen J; Ahrens, Thomas J; Gregoire, D C (1995): Fractionation of ruthenium from iridium at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 134(1-2), 141-153
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