Estudo químico de Lithothamnion sp. e Halimeda sp. no Nordeste Brasileiro

Abstract

This study analyzed the geochemical characteristics of calcareous algae in northeastern Brazil, located at various depths, collected on the continental shelf and oceanic banks in several programs of marine geology. The analyzes performed in this study were X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), infrared spectroscpy(IR), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), chemicals, calcium carbonate content and isotopic signatures of carbon and Oxygen. We selected 66 samples between Lithothamnion sp. and Halimeda sp., but on only 11 samples were performed at X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), infrared (IR), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), chemical elements and on 23 samples was determined composition isotopic of crust and core totaling 46 determinations. Techniques XRD, XRF, SEM identified the minerals aragonite and calcite; IV also indicated these formations but also the presence of these polysaccharides in calcareous algae. As to the levels of calcium carbonates these algae showed high levels and metals present values of trace elements essential for plant and animal nutrition among other purposes. The macronutrient values are compatible with the same use. Variations of 13CPDB keep high correlation with changes in atmospheric CO2 supply into the cells that form the CID (dissolved inorganic carbon) that interact with the internal pH of the membranes forming calcium carbonate through mechanisms not yet elucidated, and also where oxygen variations  18OVPDB negative values indicate periods where there was an increase of kinetic molecular hydration of carbon dioxide. Positive values of 18OPDB are associated with the precipitation of Ca+2 ions in the form of aragonite and calcite as identified by the characterization of other analyzes. The calculations of temperature predicted by the signatures of 18OPDB indicate values of these temperatures quite heterogeneous from in carbonate crust and core that does not follow an identified pattern. Elevated temperature was identified in banks of volcanic origin, but with isotopic composition of oxygen only an indication of climate change in the oceans is not possible.