Density-Driven Free-Convection Model for Isotopically Fractionated Geogenic Nitrate in Sabkha Brine

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Veröffentlicht in:Ground water. - 1979. - 55(2017), 2 vom: 15. März, Seite 199-207
1. Verfasser: Wood, Warren W (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Böhlke, J K
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2017
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Ground water
Schlagworte:Journal Article Nitrates Nitrogen Isotopes Salts Water Pollutants, Chemical brine Nitrogen N762921K75
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520 |a Subsurface brines with high nitrate (NO3- ) concentration are common in desert environments as atmospheric nitrogen is concentrated by the evaporation of precipitation and little nitrogen uptake. However, in addition to having an elevated mean concentration of ∼525 mg/L (as N), NO3- in the coastal sabkhas of Abu Dhabi is enriched in 15 N (mean δ15 N ∼17‰), which is an enigma. A NO3- solute mass balance analysis of the sabkha aquifer system suggests that more than 90% of the nitrogen is from local atmospheric deposition and the remainder from ascending brine. In contrast, isotopic mass balances based on Δ17 O, δ15 N, and δ18 O data suggest approximately 80 to 90% of the NO3- could be from ascending brine. As the sabkha has essentially no soil, no vegetation, and no anthropogenic land or water use, we propose to resolve this apparent contradiction with a density-driven free-convection transport model. In this conceptual model, the density of rain is increased by solution of surface salts, transporting near-surface oxygenated NO3- bearing water downward where it encounters reducing conditions and mixes with oxygen-free ascending geologic brines. In this environment, NO3- is partially reduced to nitrogen gas (N2 ), thus enriching the remaining NO3- in heavy isotopes. The isotopically fractionated NO3- and nitrogen gas return to the near-surface oxidizing environment on the upward displacement leg of the free-convection cycle, where the nitrogen gas is released to the atmosphere and new NO3- is added to the system from atmospheric deposition. This recharge/recycling process has operated over many cycles in the 8000-year history of the shallow aquifer, progressively concentrating and isotopically fractionating the NO3- 
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