Issue: 1
, Volume: 483
, Уear of publication: 2018
Serial edition: Doklady Earth Sciences
Pages: 1399-1404
Abstract
This work reports new geochemical and stable isotope data on the Late Quaternary travertines of the southeastern Gorny Altai. The travertines are composed of Mg-calcite and Sr-aragonite, which cement the Sartan moraines and Holocene colluvium. The isotope characteristics of CaCO3 (δ13C = -4.1...+0.9‰ and δ18O = -13.8...-13.9‰, VPDB) indicate a mixed carbon source, while the oxygen source is sedimentation water of the early diagenetic stage. The formation of travertines is controlled by the following factors: faults, underlying deformed carbonate rocks, dissected relief overlain by colluvium and/or moraine sediments, and the ascending fluid flow.
