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It was shown that the contents of Ni, Mo, and Co in the siliceous clay black shale rocks of the normal sections of the Bazhenov Formation are several times higher than the global mean contents of these elements in black shales. These rocks have the highest contents of pyrite and organic carbon and show evidence for strongly reducing formation conditions at the slowest background rate of sedimentation of their material. A transition from the siliceous clay rocks to the mudstones of normal section, which are considered as turbidites, and further to the mudstones and clayey silt rocks of the so-called anomalous sections (deposits of submarine deltas and canyons) is accompanied by sequential depletion in pyrite and organic carbon, a decrease in indicators of the reduction level of the sedimentation environment, and an increase in sedimentation rate and clay material content. Simultaneously, the contents of the elements of interest decreases in the sequence Mo > Ni > Co. In the rocks of anomalous sections, the contents of these elements decrease to the level of their mean abundances in clays.
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Original Russian Text © Yu.N. Zanin, A.G. Zamirailova, V.G. Eder, 2017, published in Geokhimiya, 2017, No. 2, pp. 161–170.
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Zanin, Y.N., Zamirailova, A.G. & Eder, V.G. Nickel, molybdenum, and cobalt in the black shales of the Bazhenov Formation of the West Siberian basin. Geochem. Int. 55, 195–204 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016702917010116
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