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Chemical composition of sediments from marine shallow-water hydrothermal mounds in Wakamiko submarine crater revealed by multiple prompt gamma-ray analysis

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Multiple prompt gamma-ray analysis (MPGA), a new radionuclide quantification method with high energy resolution, was applied to sediments from a marine shallow-water hydrothermal mound. Surface sediments around mounds were collected from the Wakamiko submarine crater located in Kagoshima Bay, southwest Japan, where the hydrothermal system was different from those at other marine shallow-water hydrothermal mounds. All samples were desalted and MPGA measurements were performed for 4,500 s (real time). Event data were obtained using eight Canberra-Eurisys CLOVER Ge detectors. The size of the list data that included all multiple events was from 1.19 to 19.2 GB. We could obtain concentrations of 32S, 55Mn, 75As, 157Gd, 39K, 149Sm, 56Fe, and 85Rb with high sensitivity by MPGA. Furthermore, 32S, 85Rb, and 55Mn have characteristic concentrations only at a mound, not at control sampling sites, suggesting that sediments were sulfurated by magmatic fluids at this mound.

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The multiple prompt gamma-ray analysis was carried out at the Inter-University Laboratory for the Joint Use of JAEA Facilities.

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  1. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan

    Katsumi Shozugawa & Motoyuki Matsuo

  2. Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, 277-8564, Japan

    Yuji Sano

  3. Nuclear Science and Engineering Directorate Research Group for Applied Nuclear Physics, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Naka, Ibaraki, 319-1195, Japan

    Yosuke Toh, Kazuyoshi Furutaka, Mitsuo Koizumi, Atsushi Kimura, Kaoru Hara, Tadahiro Kin, Masumi Oshima, Shoji Nakamura & Hideo Harada

  4. Research Institute of Nuclear Engineering, University of Fukui, 3-9-1 Bunkyo, Fukui-shi, Fukui, 910-8507, Japan

    Yukihiro Murakami

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Shozugawa, K., Matsuo, M., Sano, Y. et al. Chemical composition of sediments from marine shallow-water hydrothermal mounds in Wakamiko submarine crater revealed by multiple prompt gamma-ray analysis. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 291, 341–346 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-011-1347-9

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