Hydrogen generation during the radiolysis of crystallization water in carnallite and possible consequences of this process

Inclusions in anhydrite crystals from blue halite veins in the Kłodawa Salt Dome (Zechstein, Poland)

“…The larger ac cu mu la tions of blue ha lite were also re lated to dis junc tive tec tonic dis tur bances. Such a po si tion of blue halite in the K³odawa Salt Dome is in ac cor dance with the oc currence of blue salts in other for ma tions (Borchert, 1959;Boborov et al, 1968;Voronova, 1968, 1972;Roulston and Waugh, 1983;Waugh and Urquhart, 1983;Koriñ, 1994;Sonnenfeld, 1995;Tabakh et al, 1999;Davison, 2009;Smetannikov, 2011). They oc cur most fre quently in the vi cin ity of frac tures, shear zones or faults where salts are sub jected to crush ing and brecciation.…”

“…They were found, inter alia, in Cam brian KCl-de pos its from the south ern part of the Si be rian plat form (Pustyl'nikov, 1975), Mis sis sip pian rocks of east ern Can ada (Roulston and Waugh, 1983;Waugh and Urquhart, 1983;Davison, 2009), Lower Perm ian of the Solikamsk De pres sion in the Ural Foredeep (Vinokurov, 1958;Ivanov and Voronova, 1972;Smetannikov, 2011), within the Verkhnepechora Ba sin (Ivanov and Voronova, 1968) as well as in the Kramatorsk Se ries of Donbass (Bobrov et al, 1968), Up per Perm ian of the Del a ware Ba sin, south east ern New Mex ico, USA (Bickham, 2012), Up per Perm ian (Zechstein) salt de pos its of Ger many (Borchert, 1959), Cre ta ceous to Paleogene (Maha Sarakham For ma tion) of the Khorat Pla teau, north east ern Thai land (Suwanich, 1983;Tabakh et al, 1999), Paleogene and Neo gene of North ern and Cen tral Iran (Rahimpour-Bonab and Alijani, 2003;Baikpour et al, 2010), and Mio cene of the Carpathian Foredeep in Ukraine (Koriñ, 1994). The na ture of such colouration has been in ves tigated for over 150 years by many re search ers rep re sent ing vari ous fields.…”

Natural hydrogen the fuel of the 21st century

“…(1) Hydrogen is a major gas component (up to 30%) trapped in evaporite formations, and in particular in salt deposit containing significant amount of carnallite and other hydrated potassic salts [16]. This hydrogen may have several origins: (i) production during early biodegradation of organic matter, (ii) water radiolysis due to elevated concentration of 40 K and 87 Rb, and (iii) exogenic sources and subsequent migration into evaporite formations.…”

Новые Данные По Геохимии Газов Калийных Месторождений

“…Морачевский с соавторами [6] предполагал их захват во время садки солей из рассолов. Значительная часть исследователей связывала возникновение газов с преобразованием сингенетично захваченного органического вещества [1,4,9,13], химического [2] или радиогенного [8] разложения карналлита. Известно также устное высказывание П.А.…”