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    Origin and significance of high-grade phosphorite in a sediment core from the continental slope off Goa, India

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    1995
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    Rao, V.P.
    Rao, Ch.M.
    Thamban, M.
    Natarajan, R.
    Rao, B.R.
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    Abstract
    A phosphorite crust was found at 380-390 cm depth interval of a sediment core collected from the topographic high occurring on the continental slope off Goa. This crust is fragile and grey to light brown in colour. Carbonate fluorapatite is the predominant mineral followed by minor pyrite. Thin section studies indicate that it is mostly homogeneous with a few bone fragments and shows porous microstructure. SEM studies show that it contains agglomerated 1-2 mu m size apatite globules resembling phosphatized bacteria and coalesced bacteria. Microprobe geochemistry of the phosphorite indicates that is contains 33% P sub(2)O sub(5) and 50% CaO with other major elements (Si, Al, Ti, Fe, Mg, Na and K) amounting to only 1.8%. The mode of the phosphorite crust formation is discussed in relation to Quaternary phosphorites in upwelling and non-upwelling regions. It is suggested that the initial substrate for the phosphorite crust was most probably a fish coprolite which phosphatized under lower rates of terrigenous sedimentation and calm environmental conditions during the Pleistocene
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