x
J L E S
Make A Submission

Current Issue

  • Home
  • Current Issue Details

Most Popular

OCCURRENCE OF PENTA-AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS IN JAINTIA AND BARAIL GROUP MUDSTONES, NORTHEASTERN BENGAL BASIN, BANGLADESH

By: H. M. Zakir Hossain, Md. Sultan-Ul-Islam, Quazi Hasna Hossain

Key Words: Mudstone, penta-aromatic hydrocarbons, GC-MS, Bengal Basin, Bangladesh

JLES-Vol-8-No-P-105-112, December 2013

Abstract

In the present experiment, concentration, distribution and sources of penta-aromatic hydrocarbons in seven drill core and outcrop samples from Jaintia and Barail Group mudstones, northeastern Bengal Basin, Bangladesh have been studied. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) was used to obtain composition details about the sedimentary organic matter (OM). Mudstone samples were found to contain relatively high penta-aromatic hydrocarbon abundances in the lower Jaintia Group than in the overlying Barail Group. High concentration of perylene suggests terrigenous sources and significantly higher content of total organic carbon in the samples. A biogenic origin of perylene therefore indicates oxygen deficient environmental condition for deposition of OM. Perylene over pentacyclic aromatic hydrocarbon isomers regulating in-situ diagenetic origin.

Download cover Download the full paper

Agbozu IE and Opuene K. 2009. Occurrence and diagenetic evolution of perylene in the sediments of Oginigba Creek, Southern Nigeria. International Journal Environmental Research 3: 117–120.

Aizenshtat Z. 1973. Perylene and its geochemical significance.

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 37: 559–567.

Alam M and Pearson MJ. 1993. Bicadinanes and other terrestrial terpenoids in immature Oligocene sedimentary rocks and a related oil from the Surma Basin, NE Bangladesh. Organic Geochemistry 20: 539–554.

Alam M, Alam MM, Curray JR, Chowdhury MLR and Gani MR. 2003. An overview of the sedimentary geology of the Bengal Basin in relation to the regional tectonic framework and basin- fill history. Sedimentary Geology 155: 179–208.

Alexander R, Bastow TP, Fisher S and Kagi RI. 1995. Geosynthesis of organic compounds: II. Methylation of phenanthrene and alkylphenanthrenes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 59: 4259–4266.

Bakhtiari AR, Zakaria MP, Yaziz MI, Lajis MNH, Bi X and Rahim MCA. 2009. Vertical distribution and source identification of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in anoxic sediment cores of Chini Lake, Malaysia: Perylene as indicator of land plant- derived hydrocarbons. Applied Geochemistry 24: 1777–1787.

Banerji RK. 1981. Cretaceous–Eocene sedimentation, tectonism and biofacies in the Bengal basin, India. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 34: 57–85.

Baumard P, Budzinski H and Garrigues P. 1998. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments and mussels of the western Mediterranean Sea. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 17: 765–776.

Blumer M and Youngblood WW. 1975. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soils and recent sediments. Science 188: 53–55.

Brown G and Maher W. 1992. The occurrence, distribution and sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the sediments of the George River Estuary, Australia. Organic Geochemistry 18: 657–668.

Einsele G, Ratschbacher L and Wetzel A. 1996. The Himalaya- Bengal Fan denudation-accumulation system during the past 20 Ma. Journal of Geology 104: 163–184.

Fan C-W, Shiue J, Wu C-Y and Wu C-Y. 2011. Perylene dominance in sediments from a subtropical high mountain lake. Organic Geochemistry 42: 116–119.

Gansser A. 1964. Geology of the Himalayas. Interscience, London, p. 289.

Garrigues P, De Sury R, Angelin ML, Bellocq J, Oudin JL and Ewald

  1. 1988. Relation of the methylated aromatic hydrocarbon distribution pattern to the maturity of organic matter in ancient sediments from the Mahakam delta. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 52: 375–384.

Giger W and Schaffner C. 1978. Determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the environment by glass capillary gas chromatography. Analytical Chemistry 50: 243–249.

Grice K, Lu H, Atahan P, Asif M, Hallmann C, Greenwood P, Maslen E, Tulipani S, Williford K and Dodson J. 2009. New insights into the origin of perylene in geological samples. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73: 6531–6543.

Grice K, Nabbefeld B and Maslen E. 2007. Source and significance of selected polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments (Hovea-3 well, Perth Basin, Western Australia) spanning the Permian– Triassic boundary. Organic Geochemistry 38: 1795–1803.

Grimalt JO, Drooge BLV, Ribes A, Fernández P and Appleby P. 2004. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon composition in soils and sediments of high altitude lakes. Environmental Pollution 131: 13–24.

Gschwend PM and Hites RA. 1981. Fluxes of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to marine and lacustrine sediments in the northeastern United States. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 45: 2359–2367.

Hiller K and Elahi M. 1984. Structural development and hydrocarbon entrapment in the Surma Basin, Bangladesh (northwest Indo- Burman fold belt). Fifth Offshore South East Asia Conference, Singapore, p. 650–663

Hites RA, Laflamme RE and Farrington JW. 1977. Sedimentary polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: the historical records. Science 198: 829–831.

Hites RA, Laflamme RE, Windsor Jr JG, Farrington JW and Werner GD. 1980. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in an anoxic sediment core from the Pettaquamscutt River (Rhode Island, USA). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 44: 873–878.

Hossain HMZ, Sampei Y, Hossain QH, Roser BP and Islam MS. 2013b. Characterization of alkyl phenanthrene distributions in Permian Gondwana coals and coaly shales from the Barapukuria Basin, NW Bangladesh. Researches in Organic Geochemistry 29: 17-28.

Hossain HMZ, Sampei Y and Roser BP. 2013a. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in late Eocene to early Pleistocene mudstones of the Sylhet succession, NE Bengal Basin, Bangladesh: Implications for source and paleoclimate conditions during Himalayan uplift. Organic Geochemistry 56: 25-39.

Hossain HMZ, Roser BP and Kimura J-I. 2010. Petrography and whole-rock geochemistry of the Tertiary Sylhet succession, northeastern Bengal Basin, Bangladesh: Provenance and source area weathering. Sedimentary Geology 228: 171–183.

Hossain HMZ, Sampei Y and Roser BP. 2009a. Characterization of organic matter and depositional environment of Tertiary mudstones from the Sylhet Basin, Bangladesh. Organic Geochemistry 40: 743–754.

Hossain HMZ, Sampei Y and Roser BP. 2009b. Influence of organic matter type on the distribution of tri-aromatic hydrocarbons in Tertiary mudstones in the Sylhet Basin, Bangladesh. Researches in Organic Geochemistry 25: 39–52.

Jiang C, Alexander R, Kagi RI and Murray AP. 1998. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in ancient sediments and their relationships to palaeoclimate. Organic Geochemistry 29: 1721–1735.

Jiang C, Alexander R, Kagi RI and Murray AP. 2000. Origin of perylene in ancient sediments and its geological significance. Organic Geochemistry 31: 1545–1559.

Johnson SY and Alam AMN. 1991. Sedimentation and tectonics of the Sylhet trough, Bangladesh. Geological Society of America Bulletin 103: 1513–1527.

Kawamura K, Ogura K and Ishiwatari R. 1987. Early diagenesis of organic matter in the water column and sediments: microbial degradation and resynthesis of lipids in Lake Haruna. Organic Geochemistry 11: 251–264.

Khalili NR, Scheff PA and Holsen TM. 1995. PAH source fingerprints for coke ovens, diesel and gasoline engines, highway tunnels, and wood combustion emissions. Atmospheric Environment 29: 533–542.

Khan FH. 1991. Geology of Bangladesh. The University Press Limited, Dhaka, pp. 207.

Khan MAM. 1978.Geology of the eastern and the north-eastern part of sadar sub-division, Sylhet district, Bangladesh. Geological Survey of Bangladesh. Records 2: 1–19.

Killops SD and Massoud MS. 1992. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons of pyrolytic origin in ancient sediments: evidence for Jurassic vegetation fires. Organic Geochemistry 18: 1–7.

Laflamme RE and Hites RA. 1978. The global distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in recent sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 42: 289–303.

Mannan A. 2002. Stratigraphic evolution and geochemistry of the Neogene Surma Group, Surma Basin, Sylhet, Bangladesh. Published Doctoral thesis. Institute of Geosciences and Astronomy, Department of Geology, University of Oulu, Finland, 190 p.

Nabbefeld B, Grice K, Summons RE, Hays LE and Cao C. 2010. Significance of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Permian/Triassic boundary sections. Applied Geochemistry 25: 1374–1382.

Najman Y, Bickle M, BouDagher-Fadel M, Carter A, Garzanti E, Paul M, Wijbrans J, Willett E, Oliver G, Parrish R, Akhter SH, Allen R, Ando S, Chisty E, Reisberg L and Vezzoli G. 2008. The Paleogene record of Himalayan erosion: Bengal Basin, Bangladesh. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 273: 1–14.

Readman JW, Fillmann G, Tolosa I, Bartocci J, Villeneuve P, Catinni C and Mee LD. 2002. Petroleum and PAH contamination of Black Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin 44: 48–62.

Reimann K-U. 1993. Geology of Bangladesh. Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin, pp. 160.

Shamsuddin AHM and Abdullah SKM. 1997. Geologic evolution of the Bengal Basin and its implication in hydrocarbon exploration in Bangladesh. Indian Journal of Geology 69: 93–121.

Shengli Z, Rencheng L, Shucheng X, Junying Z, Xinjun W and Junhua H. 2010. Paleofire indicated by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soil of Jinluojia archaeological site, Hubei, China. Journal of Earth Science 21: 247–256.

Silliman JE, Meyers PA and Eadie BJ. 1998. Perylene: an indicator of alteration processes or precursor materials? Organic Geochemistry 29: 1737–1744.

Silliman JE, Meyers PA, Ostrom PH, Ostrom NE and Eadie BJ. 2000. Insights into the origin of perylene from isotopic analyses of sediments from Saanich Inlet, British Columbia. Organic Geochemistry 31: 1133–1142.

Smith JW, George SC and Batts BD. 1995. The geosynthesis of alkylaromatics. Organic Geochemistry 23: 71–80.

Sullivan RF, Boduszynski MM and Fetzer JC. 1989. Molecular transformations in hydrotreating and hydrocracking. Energy and Fuels 3: 603–612.

Suzuki N, Yessalina S and Kikuchi T. 2010. Probable fungal origin of perylene in Late Cretaceous to Paleogene terrestrial sedimentary rocks of northeastern Japan as indicated from stable carbon isotopes. Organic Geochemistry 41: 234–241.

Tan YL and Heit M. 1981. Biogenic and abiogenic polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments from two remote Adirondack lakes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 45: 2267–2279.

Tan YL, Kong A and Monetti M. 1996. Biogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in an Alaskan arctic lake sediment. Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds 9: 185–192.

Uddin A and Lundberg N. 1998. Cenozoic history of the Himalayan– Bengal system: sand composition in the Bengal basin, Bangladesh. Geological Society of America Bulletin 110: 497–511.

Uddin A and Lundberg N. 1999. A paleo-Brahmaputra? Subsurface lithofacies analysis of Miocene deltaic sediments in the Himalayan–Bengal system, Bangladesh. Sedimentary Geology 123: 239–254.

Venkatesan MI. 1988. Occurrence and possible sources of perylene in marine sediments – a review. Marine Chemistry 25: 1–27.

Wakeham S, Schaffner C and Giger G. 1980. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in recent lake sediments: II. Compounds derived from biogenic precursors during early diagenesis. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 44: 415–429.

Wakeham SG, Schaffner C, Giger W, Boon JJ and Leeuw JWD. 1979. Perylene in sediments from the Namibian Shelf. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 43: 1141–1144.

Youngblood WW and Blumer M. 1975. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the environment: homologous series in soils and recent sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 39: 1303–1314.

Manuscript received on 1 December 2013 and revised on 21 December 2013

H. M. Zakir Hossain, Md. Sultan-Ul-Islam, Quazi Hasna Hossain

OCCURRENCE OF PENTA-AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS IN JAINTIA AND BARAIL GROUP MUDSTONES, NORTHEASTERN BENGAL BASIN, BANGLADESH

JLES-Vol-8-No-P-105-112, December 2013

https://jlescience.com/les-publish/occurrence-of-penta-aromatic-hydrocarbons-in-jaintia-and-barail-group-mudstones-northeastern-bengal-basin-bangladesh/

Copyright © 2022
By Authors and Journal of Life and Earth Science (JLES)
https://jlescience.com