Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Sr and C Isotope Chemostratigraphy of the Paleoproterozoic Metacarbonate Rocks of the Sortavala Group: Fennoscandian Shield, Northern Ladoga Area

  • Published:
Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract—

The first Sr isotope data and the new C isotope signatures have been obtained for the metacarbonate rocks of the Sortavala Group in the Fennoscandian Shield. The metacarbonate rocks of the lower carbonate horizon of this group represent the sediments of shallow partly isolated paleobasins, whereas the carbonate deposits of the upper horizon represent the sediments of the distal part of an extensive marine paleobasin. The initial 87Sr/86Sr ratios of the calcite marbles in the lower carbonate horizon vary from 0.70761 to 0.71015 (Ristiniemi area) and from 0.71274 to 0.71292 (Impilahti area), whereas the same ratios of the marbles in the upper carbonate horizon vary from 0.70482 to 0.70489 (Ruskeala calcite marble), from 0.70463 to 0.70522 (Ruskeala dolomite marble), and from 0.70483 to 0.70493 (Yuven’ Island calcite marble). Samples retaining the initial Paleoproterozoic seawater signatures have been revealed as a result of the geochemical assessment of the retentivity of the isotope systems of the metacarbonate rocks. Substantial differences in δ13С values between the marbles of the lower (from +3.8 to +7.7‰, Impilahti and Ristiniemi) and upper (from –2.2‰ to +2.1‰, Ruskeala and Yuven’) carbonate horizons of the group have been established. The isotope composition of carbon from the marbles of the Sortavala Group is consistent with the deposition of the lower carbonate horizon during the terminal stages of the Jatulian Epoch and the upper horizon during the Ludicovian Epoch. The change in the Th/U ratio from 4.3–7.1 in the metacarbonate rocks of the lower horizon to 0.1–0.32 in the upper carbonate horizon reflects transition from the weakly oxidizing sedimentation environment during the Jatulian to the reducing environment during the Ludicovian. An 87Sr/86Sr isotope signature (from 0.70463 to 0.70493) was for the first time obtained for the Svecofennian Ocean during the Ludicovian time (1.9–2.06 Ga). The increase in the 87Sr/86Sr ratio in the ocean water during the post-Jatulian period reflects the global growth of the continental crust ca. 2 Ga.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 3.
Fig. 4.
Fig. 5.
Fig. 6.

Similar content being viewed by others

REFERENCES

  1. Akhmedov, A.M., Travin, L.V., and Tikhomirova, M., Glaciation and evaporitization epochs in Early Proterozoic and interregional correlation, Regional. Geol. Metallogen., 1996, no. 5, pp. 84–97.

  2. Azmy, K., Sylvester, P., and de Oliveira, T.F., Oceanic redox conditions in the Late Mesoproterozoic recorded in the upper Vazante Group carbonates of São Francisco Basin, Brazil: Evidence from stable isotopes and REEs, Precambrian Res., 2009, vol. 168, pp. 259–270.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Baker, A.J. and Fallick, A.E., Evidence from Lewisian limestones for isotopically heavy carbon in two-thousand-million-year-old sea water, Nature, 1989, vol. 337, no. 6205, pp. 352–354.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Baltybaev, Sh.K., Levchenkov, O.A., and Levskii, L.K., Svekofennskii poyas Fennoskandii: prostranstvenno-vremennaya korrelyatsiya ranneproterozoiskikh endogennykh protsessov (The Svecofennian Belt of the Fennoscandia: Spatio-Temporal Correlation of the Early Proterozoic Endogenous Processes), St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2009 [in Russian].

  5. Banner, J.L. and Hanson, G.N., Calculation of simultaneous isotopic and trace element variations during water–rock interaction with applications to carbonate diagenesis, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 1990, vol. 54, no. 11, pp. 3123–3137.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Bekker, A., Kaufman, A.J., Karhu, J.A., Beukes, N.J., Swart, Q.D., Coetzee, L.L., and Eriksson, K.A., Chemostratigraphy of the Paleoproterozoic Duitschland Formation, South Africa: Implications for coupled climate change and carbon cycling, Am. J. Sci., 2001, vol. 301, no. 3, pp. 261–285.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Bekker, A., Karhu, J.A., Eriksson, K.A., and Kaufman, A.J., Chemostratigraphy of the Paleoproterozoic carbonate successions of the Wyoming Craton: Tectonic forcing of biogeochemical change? Precambrian Res., 2003, vol. 120, nos. 3–4, pp. 279–325.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Bishop, J.W., Osleger, D.A., Montañez, I.P., and Sumner, D.Y., Meteoric diagenesis and fluid–rock interaction in the Middle Permian Capitan backreef: Yates Formation, Slaughter Canyon, New Mexico, AAPG Bull., 2014, vol. 98, no. 8, pp. 1495–1519.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Buick, I.S., Uken, R., Gibson, R.L., and Wallmach, T., High-δ13C Paleoproterozoic carbonates from the Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa, Geology, 1998, vol. 26, no. 10, pp. 875–878.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. Chernov, A.A., Lateral-spiral growth of crystals, Usp. Fiz. Nauk, 1961, vol. 73, no. 2, pp. 277–331.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  11. Claesson, S., Bogdanova, S., Bibikova, E., and Gorbachev, R., Isotopic evidence for Palaeoproterozoic accretion in the basement of the East European Craton, Tectonophysics, 2001, vol. 339, pp. 1–18.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. Črne, A.E., Melezhik, V.A., Lepland, A., Fallick, A.E., Prave, A.R., and Brasier, A.T., Petrography and geochemistry of carbonate rocks of the Paleoproterozoic Zaonega Formation, Russia: Documentation of 13C-depleted non-primary calcite, Precambrian Res., 2014, vol. 240, pp. 79–93.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  13. Demidov, N.F. and Kratz, K.O., On the rhythmic layering of the Ladoga shale sequence in the southwestern Karelia, Izv. Karel’sk. Kol’sk. Fil. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1958, no. 5, pp. 3–9.

  14. Des Marais, D.J., Isotopic evolution of the biogeochemical carbon cycle during the Precambrian, in Stable Isotope Geochemistry. Equilibrium Oxygen, Hydrogen and Carbon Isotope Fractionation Factors Applicable to Geologic Systems. Rev. Mineral. Geochem. Mineral. Soc. Am., 2001, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 555–578.

  15. Dunn, S.R. and Valley, J.W., Calcite-graphite isotope thermometry: A test for polymetamorphism in marble, Tudor gabbro aureole, Ontario, Canada, J. Metamorph. Geol., 1992, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 487–501.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  16. Eriksson, P.G. and Condie, K.C., Cratonic sedimentation regimes in the ca. 2450–2000 Ma period: Relationship to a possible widespread magmatic slowdown on Earth? Gondwana Res., 2014, vol. 25, pp. 30–47.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  17. Eskola, P.E., The problem of mantled gneiss domes, Quart. J. Geol. Soc. London, 1949, vol. 104, nos. 1–4, pp. 461–476.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  18. Filippov, M.M., Golubev, A.I., Romashkin, A.E., and Rychanchik, D.V., Mineral constituent of shungite-bearing rocks: Primary composition, sources, and relation to shungite carbon, Litol. Polezn. Iskop., 1995, no. 5, pp. 513–524.

  19. Galdobina, L.P., Ludicovian Superhorizon, in Geologiya Karelii (Geology of Karelia), Sokolov, V.A., Ed., Leningrad: Nauka, 1987, pp. 59–67.

  20. Galdobina, L.P. and Melezhik, V.A., The Ludicovian stratigraphy of the eastern part of the Baltic Shield, in Tr. Finsko-Sovetsk. simp. “Rannii proterozoi Baltiiskogo shchita,” Petrozavodsk, 19–27 avgusta 1985 g. (Proc. Finnish-Soviet Symp. ”The Early Proterozoic of the Baltic Shield.” Petrozavodsk, August 19–27, 1985), Sokolov, V.A. and Heiskanen, K.T., Eds., Petrazovodsk: Kom. Nauchno-Tekhn. Sotr. Finlyandii i Sov. Soyuza, 1986, pp. 226–235.

  21. Gavrilenko, V.V. and Kalinicheva, G.I., Geokhimiya vol’framovogo orudeneniya v oblastyakh metamorfizma i granitizatsii: na primere Severnogo Priladozh’ya (Geochemistry of the Tungsten Ore Mineralization in the Areas of Metamorphism and Granitization (Northern Ladoga Region)), Leningrad: Leningrad. Gos. Univ., 1991 [in Russian].

  22. Geologiya i petrologiya svekofennid Priladozh’ya (Geology and Petrology of Svecofennides of the Ladoga Region), Glebovitskii, V.A., Ed., St. Petersburg: St. Peterburg. Gos. Univ., 2000 [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  23. Geologiya shungitonosnykh vulkanogennykh osadochnykh obrazovanii proterozoya Karelii (Geology of Shungite-Bearing Volcano-Sedimentary Units of the Proterozoic in the Karelia), Petrozavodsk: Karelia, 1982 [in Russian].

  24. Golubev, A.I., Romashkin, A.E., and Rychanchik, D.V., Relation of carbon accumulation to Paleoproterozoic basic volcanism in Karelia (Jatulian–Ludicovian transition), in Geologiya i poleznye iskopaemye Karelii. Vyp. 13 (Geology and Mineral Resources of Karelia. Vol. 13), Petrozavodsk: Karel’sk. Nauchn. Tsentr Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2010, pp. 73–79.

  25. Gorokhov, I.M., Varshavskaya, E.S., Kutyavin, E.P., and Lobach-Zhuchenko, S.B., Preliminary Rb–Sr geochronology of the North Ladoga Region, Soviet Karelia, Eclogae Geol. Helv., 1970, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 95–104.

    Google Scholar 

  26. Gorokhov, I.M., Semikhatov, M.A., Baskakov, A.V., Kutyavin, E.P., Mel’nikov, N.N., Sochava, A.V., and Turchenko, T.L., The Sr isotopic composition in the Riphean, Vendian, and Lower Cambrian carbonate rocks of Siberia, Stratigr. Geol. Correl., 1995, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 3–31.

    Google Scholar 

  27. Gorokhov, I.M., Kuznetsov, A.B., Melezhik, V.A., Konstantinova, G.V., and Mel’nikov, N.N., The Sr isotopic composition in Upper Jatulian dolomites of the Tulomozero Formation, Southeastern Karelia, Dokl. Earth Sci., 1998, vol. 360, no. 4, pp. 521–524.

    Google Scholar 

  28. Gorokhov, I.M., Kuznetsov, A.B., Ovchinnikova, G.V., Nozhkin, A.D., Azimov, P.Ya., and Kaurova, O.K., Pb–Sr–O–C isotope compositions of metacarbonate rocks of the Derbina Formation (East Sayan): Chemostratigraphic and geochronological significance, Stratigr. Geol. Correl., 2016, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 1–18.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  29. Hannah, J.L., Stein, H.J., Zimmerman, A., Yang, G., Melezhik, V.A., Filippov, M.M., Turgeon, S.C., and Creaser, R.A., Re–Os geochronology of a 2.05 Ga fossil oil field near Shunga, Karelia, NW Russia, in The 33rd Int. Geol. Congr. Abstr., Oslo, 2008.

  30. Hanski, E.J., Evolution of the Palaeoproterozoic (2.50–1.95 Ga) non-orogenic magmatism in the eastern part of the Fennoscandian Shield, in Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation. Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia – Drilling Early Earth Project (FAR-DEEP), Melezhik, V.A. , Ed., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2013, vol. 1, pp. 179–245.

    Google Scholar 

  31. Karhu, J.A., Paleoproterozoic evolution of the carbon isotope ratios of sedimentary carbonates in the Fennoscandian Shield, Geol. Surv. Finland Bull., 1993, no. 371, pp. 1–87.

  32. Kaufman, A.J. and Knoll, A.H., Neoproterozoic variations in the C-isotopic composition of seawater: stratigraphic and biogeochemical implications, Precambrian Res., 1995, vol. 73, nos. 1–4, pp. 27–49.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  33. Kaurova, O.K., Ovchinnikova, G.V., and Gorokhov, I.M., U–Th–Pb systematics of Precambrian carbonate rocks: Dating of the formation and transformation of carbonate sediments, Stratigr. Geol. Correl., 2010, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 252–268.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  34. Khazov, R.A., Geologicheskie osobennosti olovyannogo orudeneniya Severnogo Priladozh’ya (Geological Features of Tin Ore Mineralization of the Northern Ladoga Region), Leningrad: Nauka, 1973 [in Russian].

  35. Kitchen, N.E. and Valley, J.W., Carbon isotopic thermometry in marbles of the Adirondack Mountains, New York, J. Metamorph. Geol., 1995, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 577–594.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  36. Kitsul, V.I., Petrologiya karbonatnykh porod ladozhskoi formatsii (Petrology of Carbonate Rocks of the Ladoga Formation), Leningrad: Nauka, 1963 [in Russian].

  37. Kotova, L.N., Kotov, A.B., Glebovitskii, V.A., Podkovyrov, V.N., and Savatenkov, V.M., Source rocks and provenances of the Ladoga Group silicoclastic metasediments (Svecofennian Fold Belt, Baltic Shield): Results of geochemical and Sm–Nd isotopic study, Stratigr. Geol. Correl., 2009, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 1–19.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  38. Kratz, K.O., Geology of Karelides of Karelia, Tr. LAGED AN SSSR. Vyp. 16, Moscow–Leningrad: Izd. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1963.

    Google Scholar 

  39. Kreitsmann, T., Külaviir, M., Lepland, A., Paiste, K., Paiste, P., Prave, A.R., Sepp, H., Romashkin, A.E., Rychanchik, D.V., and Kirsimäe, K., Hydrothermal dedolomitisation of carbonate rocks of the Paleoproterozoic Zaonega Formation, NW Russia – implications for the preservation of primary C isotope signals, Chem. Geol., 2019, vol. 512, pp. 43–57.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  40. Krupenik, V.A., Akhmedov, A.M., and Sveshnikova, K.Yu., Isotopic composition of carbon, oxygen, and sulphur in the Ludicovian and Jatulian rocks, in Onezhskaya paleoproterozoiskaya struktura (geologiya, tektonika, glubinnoe stroenie i minerageniya) (The Palaeoproterozoic Onega Structure (Geology, Tectonics, Deep Structure, and Minerageny)), Glushanin, L.V., Sharov, N.V., and Shchiptsov, V.V., Eds., Petrozavodsk: Karel’sk. Nauchn. Tsentr Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2011, pp. 250–254.

  41. Kulikov, V.S., Rychanchik, D.V., Golubev, A.I., Filippov, M.M., Tarkhanov, G.V., Frik, M.G., Svetov, S.A., Kulikova, V.V., Sokolov, S.Ya., and Romashkin, A.E., The Ludicovian, in Onezhskaya paleoproterozoiskaya struktura (geologiya, tektonika, glubinnoe stroenie i minerageniya) (The Palaeoproterozoic Onega Structure (Geology, Tectonics, Deep Structure, and Minerageny)), Glushanin, L.V., Sharov, N.V., and Shchiptsov, V.V., Eds., Petrozavodsk: Karel’sk. Nauchn. Tsentr Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2011, pp. 67–100.

  42. Kuznetsov, A.B., Melezhik, V.A., Gorokhov, I.M., Mel’nikov, N.N., and Fallik, E., The Sr isotopic composition in the Lower Proterozoic carbonates with anomalously high 13S content, Caniapisco Supergroup, Labrador Trough, Canadian Shield, Stratigr. Geol. Correl., 2003, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 3–12.

    Google Scholar 

  43. Kuznetsov, A.B., Ovchinnikova, G.V., Krupenin, M.T., Gorokhov, I.M., Maslov, A.V., Kaurova, O.K., and El’mis, R., The formation and transformation of carbonate rocks and sideritic ores of the Lower Riphean Baikal Formation (Southern Urals): Sr isotope characteristics and Pb–Pb Age, Lithol. Miner. Resour., 2005, no. 3, pp. 215–235.

  44. Kuznetsov, A.B., Semikhatov, M.A., Maslov, A.V., Gorokhov, I.M., Prasolov, E.M., and Krupenin, M.T., New data on Sr- and C-isotopic chemostratigraphy of the Upper Riphean type section (Southern Urals), Stratigr. Geol. Correl., 2006, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 602–628.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  45. Kuznetsov, A.B., Melezhik, V.A., Gorokhov, I.M., Melnikov, N.N., Konstantinova, G.V., Kutyavin, E.P., and Turchenko, T.L., Sr isotopic composition of Paleoproterozoic 13C-rich carbonate rocks: The Tulomozero Formation, SE Fennoscandian Shield, Precambrian Res., 2010, vol. 182, no. 4, pp. 300–312.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  46. Kuznetsov, A.B., Gorokhov, I.M., Ovchinnikova, G.V., Melezhik, V.A., Vasil’eva, I.M., Gorokhovskii, B.M., Konstantinova, G.V., and Mel’nikov, N.N., Rb–Sr and U–Pb systematics of metasedimentary carbonate rocks: The Paleoproterozoic Kuetsjarvi Formation of the Pechenga Greenstone Belt, Kola Peninsula, Lithol. Miner. Resour., 2011, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 151–164.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  47. Kuznetsov, A.B., Gorokhov, I.M., Melezhik, V.A., Mel’nikov, N.N., Konstantinova, G.V., and Turchenko, T.L., Strontium isotope composition of the Lower Proterozoic carbonate concretions: The Zaonega Formation, Southeast Karelia, Lithol. Miner. Resour., 2012, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 319–333.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  48. Kuznetsov, A.B., Semikhatov, M.A., and Gorokhov, I.M., The Sr isotope chemostratigraphy as a tool for solving stratigraphic problems of the Upper Proterozoic (Riphean and Vendian), Stratigr. Geol. Correl., 2014, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 553–575.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  49. Kuznetsov, A.B., Semikhatov, M.A., and Gorokhov, I.M., Strontium isotope stratigraphy: Principles and state of the art, Stratigr. Geol. Correl., 2018, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 367‒386.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  50. Kuznetsov, A.B., Lobach-Zhuchenko, S.B., Kaulina, T.V., and Konstantinova, G.V., Paleoproterozoic age of carbonates and trondhjemites of the Central Azov Group: Sr isotope chemostratigraphy and U–Pb geochronology, Dokl. Earth Sci., 2019, vol. 484, no. 2, pp. 142–145.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  51. Kuznetsov, A.B., Gorokhov, I.M., Azimov, P.Ya., and Dubinina, E.O., Metasedimentary carbonate rocks of the Sortavala Group (Ruskeala marbles, North Ladoga Region): Metamorphism conditions, C and Sr chemostratigraphic potential, Petrology, 2021, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 148–167.

    Google Scholar 

  52. Ladozhskaya proterozoiskaya struktura (geologiya, glubinnoe stroenie i minerageniya) (The Proterozoic Ladoga Structure (Geology, Deep Structure, and Minerageny)), Sharov, N.V., Ed., Petrozavodsk: Karel’sk. Nauchn. Tsentr Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2020 [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  53. Larin, A.M., Amelin, Yu.V., and Neimark, L.A., Age and genesis of complex skarn ores of the Pitkyaranta ore district, Geol. Rudn. Mestor., 1991, no. 6, pp. 15–33.

  54. Martin, A.P., Prave, A.R., Condon, D.J., Lepland, A., Fallick, A.E., Romashkin, A.E., Medvedev, P.V., and Rychanchik, D.V., Multiple Palaeoproterozoic carbon burial episodes and excursions, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 2015, vol. 424, pp. 226–236.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  55. Matrenichev, A.V. and Matrenichev, V.A., Petrology of the Ludicovian volcanism of the Onega structure and Raakhe-Ladoga zone. Baltic Shield, in Sb. tr. molodykh uchenykh IGGD RAN (Coll. Sci. Works of Young Scientists IPGG RAS), Abushkevich, V.S. and Alfimova, N.A., Eds., St. Petersburg: Politekhn. Univ., 2010, pp. 223–255.

  56. Matrenichev, V.A., Stepanov, K.I., and Pupkov, O.M., Stratigraphy and features of the material composition of the Early Proterozoic metavolcanic rocks of the Sortavala Uplift (Northern Ladoga Region), Vestn. SPbGU. Ser. 7, 2004, vol. 2, pp. 31–44.

    Google Scholar 

  57. Matrenichev, V.A., Vrevsky, A.B., Sergeev, S.A., and Matukov, D.A., The Ludicovian–Kalevian boundary in the northern Ladoga region: Geological relations and isotopic age, Dokl. Earth Sci., 2006, vol. 407, no. 2, pp. 388–392.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  58. Melezhik, V.A. and Fallick, A.E., A widespread positive δ13Ccarb anomaly at around 2.33–2.06 Ga on the Fennoscandian Shield: A paradox? Terra Nova, 1996, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 141–157.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  59. Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., Medvedev, P.V., and Makarihin, V.V., Extreme 13Ccarb enrichment in ca 2.0 Ga magnesite–stromatolite–dolomite–“red beds” association in a global context: A case for the world-wide signal enhanced by a local environment, Earth-Sci. Rev., 1999a, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 71–120.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  60. Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., Filippov, M.M., and Larsen, O., Karelian shungite – an indicator of 2.0 Ga old metamorphosed oil shale and generation of petroleum: Geology, lithology, and geochemistry, Earth Sci. Rev., 1999b, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 1–40.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  61. Melezhik, V.A., Roberts, D., Gorokhov, I.M., Fallick, A.E., Zwaan, K.B., Kuznetsov, A.B., and Pokrovsky, B.G., Isotopic evidence for a complex Neoproterozoic to Silurian rock assemblage in the North-Central Norwegian Caledonides, Precambrian Res., 2002, vol. 114, nos. 1/2, pp. 55–86.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  62. Melezhik, V.A., Zwaan, B.K., Motuza, G., Roberts, D., Solli, A., Fallick, A.E., Gorokhov, I.M., and Kusnetzov, A.B., New insights into the geology of high-grade Caledonian marbles based on isotope chemostratigraphy, Norwegian J. Geol., 2003, vol. 83, no. 3, pp. 209–242.

    Google Scholar 

  63. Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., and Kuznetsov, A.B., Palaeoproterozoic, rift-related, 13C-rich, lacustrine carbonates, NW Russia. Part II: Global isotopic signal recorded in the lacustrine dolostone, Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh: Earth Sci., 2004, vol. 95, nos. 3/4, pp. 423–444.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  64. Melezhik, V.A., Roberts, D., Fallick, A.E., Gorokhov, I.M., and Kuznetsov, A.B., Geochemical preservation potential of high-grade calcite marble versus dolomite marble: Implication for isotope chemostratigraphy, Chem. Geol., 2005, vol. 216, nos. 3–4, pp. 203–224.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  65. Melezhik, V.A., Kuznetsov, A.B., Fallick, A.E., Smith, R.A., Gorokhov, I.M., Jamal, D., and Cataune, F., Depositional environments and an apparent age for the Geci meta-limestones: Constraints on geological history of northern Mozambique, Precambrian Res., 2006, vol. 148, nos. 1/2, pp. 19–31.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  66. Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., Martin, A.P., Condon, D.J., Kump, L.R., Brasier, A.T., and Salminen, P.E., The Palaeoproterozoic Perturbation of the Global Carbon Cycle: The Lomagundi–Jatuli Isotopic Event, in Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation. Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia – Drilling Early Earth Project (FAR-DEEP), Melezhik, V.A., Ed., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verla, 2013a, vol. 3, pp. 1111–1150.

    Google Scholar 

  67. Melezhik, V.A., Roberts, D., Gjelle, S., Solli, A., Fallick, A.E., Kusnetzov, A.B., and Gorokhov, I.M., Isotope chemostratigraphy of high-grade marbles in the Rognan area, North-Central Norwegian Caledonides: A new geological map, and tectonostratigraphic and palaeogeographic implications, Norwegian J. Geol., 2013b, vol. 93, no. 3, pp. 107–150.

    Google Scholar 

  68. Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., Brasier, A.T., and Lepland, A., Carbonate deposition in the Palaeoproterozoic Onega basin from Fennoscandia: A spotlight on the transition from the Lomagundi–Jatuli to Shunga events, Earth Sci. Rev., 2015, vol. 147, pp. 65–98.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  69. Metallogeniya Karelii (Metallogeny of Karelia), Rybakov, S.I. and Golubev, A.I., Eds., Petrozavodsk: Karel’sk. Nauchn. Tsentr Ross. Akad. Nauk, 1999 [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  70. Metzger, A.A.T., Die Kalksteinlagerstätten von Ruskeala in Ostfinnland, Bull. Comm. Géol. Finlande, 1925, vol. 74.

    Google Scholar 

  71. Ovchinnikova, G.V., Kuznetsov, A.B., Melezhik, V.A., Gorokhov, I.M., Vasil’eva, I.M., and Gorokhovskii, B.M., The Pb–Pb age of Jatulian carbonate rocks: The Tulomozero Formation of southeast Karelia, Stratigr. Geol. Correl., 2007, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 359–372.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  72. Ovchinnikova, G.V., Kuznetsov, A.B., Vasil’eva, I.M., Gorokhov, I.M., Letnikova, E.F., and Gorokhovskii, B.M., U–Pb age and Sr isotope signature of cap limestones from the Neoproterozoic Tsagaan Oloom Formation, Dzabkhan River Basin, Western Mongolia, Stratigr. Geol. Correl., 2012, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 516–527.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  73. Pekov, I.V., Vlasov, E.A., and Gerasimova, E.I., Pitkyarantskaya uchebnaya mineralogicheskaya praktika (Mineralogical Student Training in the Pitkyaranta Area), Moscow: Mosk. Gos. Univ., 2008 [in Russian].

  74. Podkovyrov, V.N., Semikhatov, M.A., Kuznetsov, A.B., Vinogradov, D.P., Kozlov, V.I., and Kislova, I.V., Carbonate carbon isotopic composition in the Upper Riphean stratotype, the Karau Group, Southern Urals, Stratigr. Geol. Correl., 1998, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 319–335.

    Google Scholar 

  75. Pokrovsky, B.G., Melezhik, V.A., and Bujakaite, M.I., Carbon, oxygen, strontium, and sulfur isotopic compositions in Late Precambrian rocks of the Patom Complex, Central Siberia: Communication 1. Results, isotope stratigraphy, and dating problems, Lithol. Miner. Resour., 2006, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 450–474.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  76. Predovskii, A.A., Petrov, V.P., and Belyaev, O.A., Geokhimiya rudnykh elementov metamorficheskikh serii dokembriya (na primere Severnogo Priladozh’ya) (Geochemistry of Ore Elements of the Precambrian Metamorphic Series (Nortehrn Ladoga Region)), Leningrad: Nauka, 1967 [in Russian].

  77. Puchtel, I.S., Arndt, N.T., Hofmann, A.W., Haase, K.M., Kroener, A., Kulikov, V.S., Kulikova, V.V., Garbe-Schoenberg, C.D., and Nemchin, A.A., Petrology of mafic lavas within the Onega Plateau, central Karelia: Evidence for 2.0 Ga plume-related continental crustal growth in the Baltic Shield, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 1998, vol. 130, no. 2, pp. 134–153.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  78. Puchtel, I.S., Brugmann, G.E., and Hofmann, A.W., Precise Re–Os mineral isochron and Pb–Nd–Os isotope systematics of a mafic–ultramafic sill in the 2.0 Ga Onega plateau (Baltic Shield), Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 1999, vol. 170, no. 4, pp. 447–461.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  79. Punin, Yu.O., Recrystallization with increase in grain size in the water solution, Zap. Vseross. Miner. O-va, 1964, vol. 93, no. 3, pp. 364–367.

    Google Scholar 

  80. Punin, Yu.O., On the problem of the recrystallization mechanism, Zap. Vseross. Miner. O-va, 1965, vol. 94, no. 4, pp. 460–462.

    Google Scholar 

  81. Ray, J.S., Veizer, J., and Davis, W.J., C, O, Sr, and Pb isotope systematics of carbonate sequences of the Vindhyan Supergroup, India: Age, diagenesis, correlations and implications for global events, Precambrian Res., 2003, vol. 121, nos. 1–2, pp. 103–140.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  82. Rizvanova, N.G. and Kuznetsov, A.B., A new approach to ID-TIMS U–Pb dating of cassiterite by the example of the Pitkäranta tin deposit, Dokl. Earth Sci., 2020, vol. 491, no. 1, pp. 146–149.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  83. Savko, K.A., Kuznetsov, A.B., and Ovchinnikova, M.Yu., Carbonate deposits of Eastern Sarmatia (Early Precambrian Ignateevskaya Suite): Sedimentation conditions and paleocontinental correlations, Stratigr. Geol. Correl., 2020, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 3–26.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  84. Schidlowski, M., Carbon isotopes as biogeochemical recorders of life over 3.8 Ga of Earth history: Evolution of a concept, Precambrian Res., 2001, vol. 106, nos. 1–2, pp. 117–134.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  85. Schidlowski, M., Eichmann, R., and Junge, C.E., Carbon isotope geochemistry of the Precambrian Lomagundi carbonate province, Rhodesia, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 1976, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 449–455.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  86. Semikhatov, M.A., Kuznetsov, A.B., Podkovyrov, V.N., Bartley, J.K., and Davydov, Yu.V., The Yudoma Group of stratotype area: C-isotope chemostratigraphic correlations and Yudomian–Vendian relation, Stratigr. Geol. Correl., 2004, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 435‒459.

    Google Scholar 

  87. Semikhatov, M.A., Kuznetsov, A.B., Maslov,A.V., Gorokhov, I.M., and Ovchinnikova, G.V., Stratotype of the Lower Riphean, the Burzyan Group of the Southern Urals: Lithostratigraphy, paleontology, geochronology, Sr- and C-isotopic characteristics of its carbonate rocks, Stratigr. Geol. Correl., 2009, vol. 17, no.6, pp. 574–601.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  88. Shul’diner, V.I., Kozyreva, I.V., and Baltybaev, Sh.K., Age and structural differentiation of Precambrian formations in the north-western Ladoga region, Stratigr. Geol. Correl., 1996, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 11–22.

    Google Scholar 

  89. Sokolov, V.A. and Galdobina, L.P., Lyudikovian as a new stratigraphic subdivision of Lower Proterozoic in Karelia, Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1982, vol. 267, no. 1, pp. 187–190.

    Google Scholar 

  90. Sokolov, V.A., Galdobina, L.P., Ryleev, A.V., et al., Geologiya, litologiya i paleogeografiya yatuliya Tsentral’noi Karelii (Geology, Lithology and Paleogeography of the Jatulian in Central Karelia), Petrozavodsk: Kareliya, 1970 [in Russian].

  91. Stratigrafiya dokembriya KASSR (arkhei, nizhnii proterozoi) (The Precambrian Stratigraphy of the Karelian ASSR (Archean, Lower Proterozoic)), Petrozavodsk, 1984 [in Russian].

  92. Strauss, H., Melezhik, V.A., Lepland, A., Fallick, A.E., Hanski, E.J., Filippov, M.M., Deines, Y.E., Illing, C.J., Črne, A.E., and Brasier, A.T., Enhanced accumulation of organic matter: The Shunga Event, in Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation. Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia – Drilling Early Earth Project (FAR-DEEP), Melezhik, V.A., Ed., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2013, vol. 3, pp. 1195–1274.

    Google Scholar 

  93. Sturchio, N.C., Antonio, M.R., Soderholm, L., Sutton, S.R., and Brannon, J.C., Tetravalent uranium in calcite, Science, 1998, vol. 281, no. 5379, pp. 971–973.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  94. Svetov, A.P. and Sviridenko, L.P., Stratigrafiya dokembriya Karelii. Sortaval’skaya seriya svekokarelid Priladozh’ya (Precambrian stratigraphy in Karelia. Sortavala Series of the Svecokarelides in the Ladoga Region), Petrozavodsk, 1992 [in Russian].

  95. Swart, P.K., The geochemistry of carbonate diagenesis: The past, present and future, Sedimentology, 2015, vol. 62, no. 5, pp. 1233–1304.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  96. Trüstedt, O., Die Erzlagerstätten von Pitkäranta am Ladoga-See, Bull. Comm. Géol. Finlande, 1907, vol. 19.

    Google Scholar 

  97. Valley, J.W., Stable isotope geochemistry of metamorphic rocks, in Stable Isotopes in High Temperature Geological Processes, Valley, J.W., Taylor, H.P., Jr., and O’Neil, J.R., Eds., Rev. Mineral. Geochem. Mineral. Soc. Am., 1986, vol. 16, pp. 445–490.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  98. Valley, J.W. and O’Neil, J.R., 13C/12C exchange between calcite and graphite: A possible thermometer in Grenville marbles, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 1981, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 411–419.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  99. Valley, J.W. and O’Neil, J.R., Fluid heterogeneity during granulite facies metamorphism in the adirondacks: Stable isotope evidence, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 1984, vol. 85, no. 2, pp. 158–173.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  100. Veizer, J. and Compston, W., 87Sr/86Sr in Precambrian carbonates as an index of crustal evolution, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 1976, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 905–914.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  101. Veizer, J., Clayton, R.N., and Hinton, R.W., Geochemistry of Precambrian carbonates: 3-shelf seas and non-marine environments of the Archean, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 1990, vol. 54, no. 10, pp. 2717–2729.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  102. Wignall, P.B. and Twitchett, R.J., Oceanic anoxia and the end Permian mass extinction, Science, 1996, vol. 272, no. 5265, pp. 1155–1158.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  103. Yudovich, Ya.E., Makarikhin, V.V., Medvedev, P.V., and Sukhanov, N.V., Carbon isotope anomalies in carbonates of the Karelian Complex, Geochem. Int., 1991, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 56–62.

    Google Scholar 

  104. Zheng, Y.F. and Hoefs, J., Carbon and oxygen isotopic covariations in hydrothermal calcites, Mineral. Deposita, 1993, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 79–89.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank A.I. Slabunov and A.B. Kotov for constructive remarks which contributed to the improvement of the manuscript.

Funding

The geochemical and Sr isotope studies in carbonate rocks were supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 18-17-00247); the petrological study was supported by the State Assignment (project no. NIR 0132-2019-0013).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia

    I. M. Gorokhov, A. B. Kuznetsov, P. Ya. Azimov, I. M. Vasilieva & N. G. Rizvanova

  2. Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119017, Moscow, Russia

    E. O. Dubinina

Authors
  1. I. M. Gorokhov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. A. B. Kuznetsov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. P. Ya. Azimov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. E. O. Dubinina
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. I. M. Vasilieva
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. N. G. Rizvanova
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to I. M. Gorokhov.

Additional information

Reviewers A.I. Slabunov and A.B. Kotov

Translated by E. Murashova

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Gorokhov, I.M., Kuznetsov, A.B., Azimov, P.Y. et al. Sr and C Isotope Chemostratigraphy of the Paleoproterozoic Metacarbonate Rocks of the Sortavala Group: Fennoscandian Shield, Northern Ladoga Area. Stratigr. Geol. Correl. 29, 121–139 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593821020027

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Revised:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593821020027

Keywords

Search

Navigation