Chemical and isotopic constraints on the origin of saline waters from a hot spring in the eastern coastal area of China
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Chemical and isotopic constraints on the origin of saline waters from a hot spring in the eastern coastal area of China Yinlei Hao 1,2,3 & Zhonghe Pang 1,2,3 & Yanlong Kong 1,2,3 & Jiao Tian 1,2,3 & Yingchun Wang 4 & Dawei Liao 1,2,3 & Yifan Fan 1,2,3 Received: 29 September 2019 / Accepted: 3 June 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The Jimo hot spring in Shandong Peninsula, China, is a typical coastal geothermal system. The geothermal water has a very high salinity (10.8 g/L) and the origin of the salt is key to utilization of this geothermal resource. A systematic investigation of the hydrochemistry and isotopes (δ11B, 87Sr/86Sr, δ18O, δD, 13CDIC and 14CDIC) of water from 14 geothermal wells was conducted. The results show that the geothermal waters from the high-temperature center and eastern part of the geothermal field are Cl-Na· Ca-type waters with Br/Cl (8 × 10−4–1.0 × 10−3), Na/Cl (0.63–0.70) and δ11B values (15.9–17.2‰) that are lower than those of seawater. The western geothermal waters are dominated by Cl-Na-type waters with Br/Cl and Na/Cl values similar to those of seawater. The depleted δD and δ18O compositions and the corrected 14CDIC age suggest that Jimo geothermal waters are mixtures of late Pleistocene to early Holocene and younger meteoric waters. An improved Br/Cl-Na/Cl diagram, ion mass balance calculations and δ11B values indicate that halite and K-salt dissolution and subsequent cation exchange formed the dominant Cl-Na·Ca-type geothermal water, and this was then modified into a small amount of Cl-Na-type water in the western area by mixing with minor seawater entrapped in the unconsolidated sediments. The 87Sr/86Sr ratios (0.710613–0.710726) of the geothermal waters reflect water–rock reactions in the sandstone. The improved Br/Cl-Na/Cl diagram, Piper plot and boron isotopic dataset containing saline waters from coastal geothermal systems worldwide further confirm that the salinity in the Jimo geothermal water originated from dissolution of marine evaporites. Keywords Coastal geothermal system . Hydrochemistry . Stable isotopes . Marine evaporite dissolution . China
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Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-020-02199-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Zhonghe Pang [email protected] 1
Key Laboratory of Shale Gas and Geoengineering, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
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Innovation Academy for Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China
The chemistry of coastal geothermal systems has been widely documented around the world (Eastoe et al. 2001; Chen et al. 2016; Awaleh et al. 2018; Saibi and Ehara 2010; Dotsika et al. 2006; Risacher et al. 2011; Magri e
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