The application discloses a method for quantitatively analyzing mercury in different occurrence states in sedimentary rocks, belongs to the technical field of geological rock analysis, extracts
kerogen from whole rock, respectively determines the mercury content and the organic carbon content of the whole rock and the
kerogen, then carries out high-temperature
thermal desorption analysis on equal quality of the two, obtains a
thermal desorption curve, divides the release stages of different mercury occurrence states according to the
thermal desorption curve, and calculates the content and proportion of mercury in each stage, and finally combines the total mercury content of the whole rock, the mercury content of the
kerogen and the
mass ratio, and obtains the
inorganic mercury content through
mass balance calculation. The method divides mercury into
organic matter combined state (in kerogen) and inorganic combined state through
physical separation and high-temperature
pyrolysis, overcomes the multi-solution problem of traditional correlation fitting, significantly improves the accuracy and reliability of mercury as a volcanic activity tracer, and verifies the experimental data through
mass balance calculation, avoiding the misjudgment of a single fitting method.