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Marine Environmental Geology

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Earth Science and Medical Geology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 3238

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Qiangtai Huang

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School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
Interests: tectonic evolution of oceanic lithosphere; basin sedimentation and hydrocarbon accumulation in deep water area of the South China Sea
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Dr. Jiangong Wei

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MLR Key Laboratory of Marine Mineral Resources, Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey, Guangzhou 510075, China
Interests: natural gas hydrate (NGH); marine geology and geophysics
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Dr. Peng Cheng

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State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China
Interests: accumulation process and mechanism of hydrocarbons in deep-water areas of marine; tracing paleo-fluid migration in geological environment; marine environmental geochemistry
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The marine environment is closely related to human life and survival. Changes in the marine environment can affect human living environments in many aspects. Throughout geological history, there have been many great changes and even disastrous events in the marine environment, which have had a great impact on the evolution of Earth’s organisms. At the same time, human activities also have a significant impact on the marine environment, such as via ocean acidification and marine pollution. Therefore, it is of great significance to explore changes in the marine environment.

We encourage the application of multiple indicators and methods to study marine minerals (oil, natural gas hydrate, Fe-Mn nodules and so on), sediments, seawater, and rock, in order to reconstruct marine geological evolution and marine environment conditions. Experimental, observational, and modeling studies are welcome.

This album warmly welcomes research and review papers related to marine environmental geology, including, but not limited to, the following topics:

  • Tectonic evolution of the oceanic lithosphere.
  • Formation mechanism of Fe-Mn nodules.
  • Reconstruction of the paleo-environment of the cold-seep region.
  • Source and sink processes of continental marginal seas and their interactions with marine environments and human activities.
  • Modern cold-seep activity and its carbon-cycling effect.
  • The accumulation and transport of hydrocarbons, including crude oil, natural gas, condensates and natural gas
  • Exploration and development of offshore oil and gas resources.
  • Influences of offshore petroleum development on marine environments and public health.

Dr. Qiangtai Huang
Dr. Jiangong Wei
Dr. Peng Cheng
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • marine minerals
  • mid-oceanic ridge
  • oceanic crust
  • offshore oil and gas resources
  • natural gas hydrate
  • carbon cycling
  • marine sedimentology
  • deep sea
  • carbonatite geochemistry
  • marine environment and public health

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The Significance of Nanomineral Particles during the Growth Process of Polymetallic Nodules in the Western Pacific Ocean
by Qiangtai Huang, Bo He, Zhourong Cai and Qianru Huang
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(21), 13972; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph192113972 - 27 Oct 2022
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As a huge reservoir of economic metallic elements, oceanic polymetallic nodules have important strategic significance and are one of the main research objects in marine geology, especially their formation process and genetic mechanism. In this study, polymetallic nodules from the cobalt-rich crust exploration [...] Read more.
As a huge reservoir of economic metallic elements, oceanic polymetallic nodules have important strategic significance and are one of the main research objects in marine geology, especially their formation process and genetic mechanism. In this study, polymetallic nodules from the cobalt-rich crust exploration contract area in the Western Pacific Ocean were taken as the research object. Optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) were used for observation and testing. The results indicate that many nanomineral particles, mainly composed of Fe and Mn, developed in polymetallic nodules from the western Pacific Ocean. The solid–liquid interface process of nanomineral particles plays an important role in the growth and evolution of nodules. We propose that the growth process of polymetallic nodules in the western Pacific Ocean can be divided into three stages. First, terrigenous detritus nucleates, and nanomineral particles composed of Fe, Mn, and other elements form, aggregate and attach to the core to form the initial shell. Second, a dense layer of the shell forms under stable conditions. In the third stage, the redox conditions of the nodules change, and the polymetallic nodules experience a variety of interface process modifications. Full article
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Distribution and Genesis of Organic Carbon Storage on the Northern Shelf of the South China Sea
by Liang Chen, Zhengxin Yin, Meng Tang, Tuanjie Li and Dong Xu
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(18), 11367; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph191811367 - 9 Sep 2022
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The sediments distributed in the marginal seas of the continental shelf are important burial materials for global organic carbon (OC). There have been many estimates of the global continental shelf OC reserves, but due to the limited acquisition of measured data, the estimated [...] Read more.
The sediments distributed in the marginal seas of the continental shelf are important burial materials for global organic carbon (OC). There have been many estimates of the global continental shelf OC reserves, but due to the limited acquisition of measured data, the estimated results have great uncertainty. The vast continental shelf in the northern part of the South China Sea (SCS) provides a good place for the storage of OC. Based on a large amount of sediment OC data obtained from the northern coast of the SCS, the OC storage in the surface sediment (0~10 cm) in the study area (approximately 8.63 × 104 km2) was accurately calculated as 51 Tg. The study area covers different regions, such as estuaries, open seas, strait areas and upwelling development areas, and the OC content of each area is quite different. According to provenance analysis, the source of OC in sediments is mainly from the input of Pearl River runoff. The OC content is significantly higher and less affected by sediment particle size in the Pearl River Estuary and the surrounding areas; meanwhile, the OC content gradually decreases with the distance from the Pearl River Estuary. Far from the western Pearl River Estuary, the sediment OC content is mainly controlled by the particle size of the sediments and is significantly correlated with silt and clay content. The deposition rate is also an important factor affecting the burial of OC, for the high deposition rates correspond to the high levels of OC in the nearshore estuarine areas, as well as the low deposition rate region having low OC content in the sediments even though it has a high productivity of OC, such in as the upwelling sea area on the eastern side of Hainan. Full article
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