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《古地理学报》2021,23(2)
以前的微生物岩识别和分类只根据裸眼可见的中观结构,而对显微镜下的微观结构未予使用。微生物的显微结构有什么基本特征,是否可以用于微生物岩的识别和分类是本文关注的焦点。作者从微生物岩形成机制和实际材料的观察来探讨这个问题。在诱导钙化实验中观察到,蓝藻鞘丝藻Lyngbya的胶鞘表面有碳酸盐矿物形成:先是在胶鞘表面形成点状碳酸盐颗粒,后来碳酸盐几乎包裹整个丝体,形成一个矿物壳。微生物岩形成的模式推演表明,微生物岩一般都有微生物留下的孔(模孔)和包围模孔的矿物壳2种基本单元。对3个地点的现代微生物碳酸盐岩和1个地点的古代(寒武纪)微生物岩的观察,发现在显微尺度上都具有模孔,此外还可能有矿物壳或胶结物。模孔的形状、大小、排列方式是微生物碳酸盐岩显微结构研究的核心内容,在今后的研究中可以用于微生物岩的识别和分类,以及作为分析形成机制和形成环境的基础。 相似文献
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塔里木盆地阿克苏地区肖尔布拉克剖面肖尔布拉克组下段除底部条带状泥晶白云岩外,主要为微生物碳酸盐岩沉积,但目前关于这套微生物岩的研究很少。通过详细的野外露头观察及室内镜下薄片鉴定,对研究剖面肖尔布拉克组下段的微生物碳酸盐岩类型进行了识别、分类,并重构了其沉积环境。结果显示:肖尔布拉克组下段共发育六种岩相类型,其中包括四种微生物碳酸盐岩类型:粗纹层状凝块岩,具窗孔凝块岩,厚层状凝块岩和块状凝块岩。粗纹层状凝块岩和具窗孔凝块岩主要分布于潮间带;厚层状凝块岩和块状凝块岩主要沉积于中深—浅水局限潮下带。不同的微生物岩类型发育于不同的位置,主要受控于海平面变化、古地理位置及微生物群落等因素。 相似文献
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微生物碳酸盐岩是近年来地学界研究的一个热点,其时空分布非常广泛,并可形成重要的油气储集层。在鄂尔多斯盆地北部苏里格气田的中奥陶统马家沟组马五1+2段和马五4段,笔者分别发现了非钙化微生物成因的凝块石微生物岩。依据显微结构,将凝块石划分为蠕虫状凝块石、网状凝块石和房室孔洞状凝块石3种类型。通过与基里巴斯现代超盐湖微生物碳酸盐形成环境的对比,推测在华北地台云坪广布、坪中有湖的大背景下,凝块石是在相对海平面上升、盐度大约在60‰~149‰之间的条件下形成的,而含石膏结核碳酸盐岩是在相对海平面下降、盐度达到149‰以上的条件下形成的。进一步研究发现,蠕虫状凝块石泥粉晶白云岩的白云石晶间孔和溶蚀孔非常发育,网状凝块石和房室孔洞状凝块石的溶蚀残余孔较发育,推测凝块石微生物岩具有较好的物性,是未来油气勘探的重要目标岩性之一。 相似文献
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华北地台中元古代碳酸盐岩中的微生物成因构造及其生烃潜力 总被引：6，自引：3，他引：3
华北地台中元古界主要由环潮坪石英砂岩、浅海碳酸盐岩和浅海—泻湖相暗色页岩3种沉积相组合构成,以陆表海浅水碳酸盐岩占主导。碳酸盐岩中除含有丰富的微古植物、宏观藻类和微生物建隆外,还发育大量的微生物成因构造(MISS)和微生物诱发的碳酸盐沉淀(MMCP)。微生物席和MISS构造在高于庄组上部(约1.6 Ga)和雾迷山组下部(约1.45 Ga)碳酸盐岩中尤为发育,表明活跃的微生物活动和高有机质产量。在石化微生物席中,发现有丝状、球状细菌化石和草莓状黄铁矿;围岩中发现有针状文石、花瓣状重晶石、放射状菱铁矿、铁白云石和葡萄状碳酸盐胶结物等多种自生碳酸盐矿物,指示甲烷厌氧氧化(AOM)导致的自生碳酸盐沉淀。中元古代的温暖气候和海洋分层、缺氧、硫化条件有利于微生物的高生产量和高有机质埋藏率。气隆构造和核形石状碳酸盐结核反映浅埋藏条件下活跃的成烷作用和甲烷排放,围岩和MMCP中富沥青质。华北地台中元古界富微生物席碳酸盐岩有良好的生烃潜力,有可能形成重要的烃源岩。据微生物席、MISS构造及MMCP的研究,初步估算华北地台中元古代碳酸盐岩的概略生烃潜力约为10×108t石油当量。 相似文献
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Nuia是早奥陶世备受争议的一种疑难钙化微体化石,其分类位置长期以来因内部构造常被成岩作用破坏而未得到解决。本文在薄片镜下观察的基础上,结合拉曼光谱和扫描电镜分析技术,对黔北桐梓地区下奥陶统红花园组生物礁中的Nuia化石进行形态解剖分析并探讨其钙化机制。研究结果显示,Nuia由发射状丝状体(filaments)聚集而成的胶群体(colony)以及外围的钙化外鞘(calcified encrustation)组成,丝状体基部往往有异形胞和(或)厚壁孢子聚集成暗色的中央区。据此,Nuia 可能是蓝藻门念珠藻目胶须藻科(Rivulariaceae, Nostocales, Cyanophyta)的早期代表。通过类比现代蓝藻的钙化机制模型,Nuia 可能具有比较复杂的钙化过程：原植体通过二氧化碳聚集机制(carbon dioxide concentrating mechanisms, CCMs)进行光合作用的过程中,碳酸盐颗粒首先在原始丝状体的基部胶鞘内沉淀形成黑色的中央区;随着藻丝的生长和假分枝的出现,丝状体的相应位置可形成反映季节变化的钙化带,显示为特殊的分层现象,藻丝生长停止后,藻体表面形成一层公共胶鞘,并经浸染作用和(或)结壳作用形成钙化外鞘;丝状体在早期成岩阶段受到重结晶作用而被交代为方解石纤维。此外,Nuia的中央区和公共胶鞘可能有细胞降解残留的有机大分子,限制了矿物晶体的快速生长,钙化过程中只形成细小的方解石矿物,因而在薄片中呈现出比围岩和钙化丝状体更深的颜色。 相似文献
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生物岩是新兴交叉学科生物岩石学的主要研究对象，是生物作用形成的岩石，主要包括生物礁岩、非造礁生物骨骼和泥晶组成的岩石、微生物骨骼组成的岩石、微生物作用形成的岩石。以往的生物礁和微生物岩分类系统只包括了一部分生物礁岩和微生物岩，尚有一部分宏体生物形成的岩石类型和微生物形成的岩石类型没有准确命名。为了促进生物岩的研究，作者提出一个包括生物礁岩、非造礁生物骨骼碳酸盐岩、微生物岩和其他微生物成因岩石的统一的生物岩分类系统，包括4个层级24种基本岩石类型。新增的基本岩石类型包括生物泥晶岩、微礁岩、微屑岩、包壳石、微骨架岩、微绑结岩、丝状岩、微泥晶岩等。作者还对部分岩石例如骨架岩等的定义进行了补充修正与完善，讨论了生物岩研究中存在的4个问题。 相似文献
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滇东南中三叠统法郎组锰矿床成因的新认识 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
产于滇东南中三叠世拉丁期法郎组地层中的锰矿床,锰矿石出现氧化锰矿与碳酸盐锰矿混合存在现象,没有明显的变质现象,为沉积成因。矿石中一般都含有生物碎屑。我们对采自这一地区的斗南、岩子脚、老乌,土基冲等典型矿床的锰矿石样品,进行了系统的薄片显微镜和扫描电镜观察,同时应用X射线衍射对矿石矿物成份作了相应分析。观察到这些矿石中的鲕、豆状结构是由蓝绿藻类微生物凝聚作用形成的显微叠层构造,具有核形石特有的核心和包壳,其明—暗纹层相间的显微结构特征可以与现代深海大洋铁锰结核相类比。本文通过对核形石显微结构特征的观察和对锰矿物生成时介质环境的讨论,初步研究结果表明,锰矿形成可能位于古氧化还原界面附近,该区锰的富集可能与微生物活动密切相关。 相似文献
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微生物对碳酸盐岩的风化作用 总被引：7，自引：0，他引：7
微生物-矿物相互作用可以促进许多表生生物地球化学反应过程,是表生地球化学研究的重要内容。通过综合岩石表面的微生物类群及其地质作用,分析碳酸盐岩微生物风化的各种现象,特别是微观尺度上的各种形态,阐述碳酸盐岩的微生物风化机制与风化产物,笔者提出微生物对碳酸盐岩风化的4种途径:(1)通过微生物在岩石表面和缝隙中生长,导致岩石表层发生生物溶蚀、生物磨蚀和生物钻孔作用,加速岩石风化进程;(2)微生物群体形成的钻孔网络可以增强岩石化学溶蚀的有效表面积并导致其表面强度减弱而促进机械侵蚀作用,微生物对周围岩石颗粒胶结结构的破坏、疏松作用也会导致岩石矿物颗粒的分解;(3)微生物的持水作用,微生物分泌的有机酸以及微生物呼吸所释放的CO2对岩表水分的酸化过程亦加速岩石矿物的分解;(4)微生物生长过程中从岩石内摄取营养元素和产生复杂的有机配体,能促进矿物元素的释放。文中提出在开展微生物对碳酸盐岩风化过程和机理研究的基础上,有必要引入微生物生物技术来综合开发本地低品位含钾磷矿产资源,加速岩溶地区山地土壤的形成与演化。 相似文献
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通过对国内外有关微生物碳酸盐岩的成因、分类资料的广泛阅览和对比分析,发现以蓝藻菌、减硫酸盐细菌、产甲烷细菌为主的微生物在新陈代谢过程中能够改变水体的物理化学条件而促使Ca2 、Mg2 发生沉积,或是对外来碎屑进行捕捉和粘附,或是发生自身钙化,从而引导微生物碳酸盐岩的形成.依据形成机制和宏观构造将微生物碳酸盐岩划分为叠层石、凝块石、树形石和均一石,初步建立了微生物碳酸盐岩的分类体系,是碳酸盐沉积学中的重大进展.另外,应将同样具有特殊宏观构造和重大地质意义的核形石、纹理石与叠层石、凝块石、树形石和均一石并列,归为微生物碳酸盐岩. 相似文献
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土著微生物对CO2地质储存过程中水岩作用的影响 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
为了研究土著微生物对CO2地质储存过程中水岩作用的影响,进行了摇瓶实验和高压釜模拟实验。结果表明:细菌的作用促进了含钙碳酸盐的形成;真菌使固碳离子的溶出量增大;放线菌促进了含铁碳酸盐的形成。细菌实验组与高压釜模拟实验中岩石样品表面均形成了未知的硅铝酸盐矿物,这些硅铝酸盐的沉淀为CO2的固定起到积极的作用。如果反应时间足够长,溶液中的碳酸盐就可能以方解石、菱镁矿、菱铁矿等矿物的形式析出,从而实现CO2在地下的永久储存。 相似文献
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Recent studies of continental carbonates revealed that carbonates with similar fabrics can be formed either by biotic, biologically-induced, biologically-influenced or purely abiotic processes, or a combination of all. The aim of this research is to advance knowledge on the formation of carbonates precipitated (or diagenetically altered) in extreme, continental environments by studying biotic versus abiotic mechanisms of crystallization, and to contribute to the astrobiology debate around terrestrial analogues of Martian extreme environments. Both fossil (upper Pleistocene to Holocene) and active carbonate spring mounds from the Great Artesian Basin (South Australia) have been investigated. These carbonates consist of low-Mg to high-Mg calcite tufa. Four facies have been described: (i) carbonate mudstone/wackestone; (ii) phytohermal framestone/boundstone; (iii) micrite boundstone; and (iv) coarsely crystalline boundstone. The presence of filaments encrusted by micrite, rich in organic compounds, including ultraviolet-protectants, in phytohermal framestone/boundstone and micrite boundstone is clear evidence of the existence of microbial mats at the time of deposition. In contrast, peloidal micrite, despite commonly being considered a microbial precipitate, is not directly associated with filaments in the Great Artesian Basin mounds. It has probably formed from nanocrystal aggregation on colloid particulate. Thus, where biofilms have been documented, it is likely that bacteria catalyzed the development of fabrics. It is less certain that microbes induced calcium carbonate precipitation elsewhere. Trace elements, including rare earth element distribution from laminated facies, highlight strongly evaporative settings (for example, high Li contents). Carbon dioxide degassing and evaporation are two of the main drivers for an increase in fluid alkalinity, resulting in precipitation of carbonates. Hence, although the growth of certain fabrics is fostered by the presence of microbial mats, the formation of carbonate crystals might be independent from it and mainly driven by extrinsic factors. More generally, biological processes may be responsible for fabric and facies development in micritic boundstone whilst micrite nucleation and growth are driven by abiotic factors. Non-classical crystallization pathways (aggregation and fusion of nanoparticles from nucleation clusters) may be more common than previously thought in spring carbonate and this should be carefully considered to avoid misinterpretation of certain fabrics as by-products of life. It is proposed here that the term ‘organic-compound catalyzed mineralization’ should be used for crystal growth in the presence of organic compounds when dealing with astrobiological problems. This term would account for the possibility of multiple crystallization pathways (including non-classical crystallization) that occurred directly from an aqueous solution without the direct influence of microbial mats. 相似文献
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针对现有微生物碳酸盐岩分类不够系统、岩石类型及组合的环境意义不明确、岩相古地理重建缺乏微生物碳酸盐岩沉积模式指导等科学问题,通过塔里木盆地、四川盆地和鄂尔多斯盆地2个元古宇剖面和3个显生宇剖面详细的岩类学和岩石组合序列研究,取得3项成果与认识:①建立了构造尺度和形态特征相结合的系统的微生物碳酸盐岩分类方案。②明确了微生物碳酸盐岩岩石类型及组合的环境意义。风暴浪基面之下远端以欠补偿黑色泥岩和硅质岩沉积为主,近端的下斜坡以具丘状结构的纹理石碳酸盐岩和灰泥丘建造为主;风暴浪基面和正常浪基面之间的上斜坡以小-中型泡沫状、团块状凝块石碳酸盐岩和小-中型柱状、锥状、穹窿状叠层石碳酸盐岩建造为主;正常浪基面与平均低潮线之间以大-中型波状叠层石碳酸盐岩建造为主;平均低潮线之上的潮坪环境以大-中型层(席)状微生物碳酸盐岩、丘状微生物碳酸盐岩建造为主。③建立了缓坡沉积体系和镶边沉积体系微生物碳酸盐岩沉积模式。这些认识对微生物碳酸盐岩岩相古地理重建和储层分布预测具重要的指导意义。 相似文献
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Silicified carbonates of the late Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic Society Cliffs Formation, Baffin Island, contain distinctive microfabrics and microbenthic assemblages whose paleo-environmental distribution within the formation parallels the distribution of these elements through Proterozoic time. In the Society Cliffs Formation, restricted carbonates--including microdigitate stromatolites, laminated tufa, and tufted microbial mats--consist predominantly of synsedimentary cements; these facies and the cyanobacterial fossils they contain are common in Paleoproterozoic successions but rare in Neoproterozoic and younger rocks. Less restricted tidal-flat facies in the formation are composed of laminated microbialites dominated by micritic carbonate lithified early, yet demonstrably after compaction; these strata contain cyanobacteria that are characteristic in Neoproterozoic rocks. Within the formation, the facies-dependent distribution of microbial populations reflects both the style and timing of carbonate deposition because of the strong substrate specificity of benthic cyanobacteria. A reasonable conclusion is that secular changes in microbenthic assemblages through Proterozoic time reflect a decrease in the overall representation of rapidly lithified carbonate substrates in younger peritidal environments, as well as concomitant changes in the taphonomic window of silicification through which early life is observed. 相似文献
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Jian-Wei Shen Hai-Jun Yang Hairuo Qing Li-Juan Zhang Hong-Qiang Yang 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2012,101(1):109-127
Carbonates of Mississippian age (Viséan) in the Midale Beds, Charles Formation of southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada, produce
significant amounts of hydrocarbons. The Midale Beds represent deposition in a shallow-water, periodically restricted, epeiric
setting. The sedimentation is characterized by a variety of shallow-water carbonate lithologies ranging from wackestone, packstone,
grainstone, to microbial boundstone. Algae, calcimicrobes, and related microbial fabrics are common features in these limestones.
Cores and thin sections through the Midale Beds in the Glen Ewen and Midale pools of southeastern Saskatchewan were examined
in order to study the contribution of calcimicrobes and microbial fabrics to the sedimentation of Mississippian carbonate
rocks in southeastern Saskatchewan. Calcimicrobes and microbial fabrics are the important components in the grainstones and
microbial boundstone. The calcimicrobes are commonly found as porostromate forms, including Garwoodia sp. and Ortonella sp., and other forms such as Archaeolithoporella-like, Girvanella-like, Wetheredella-like, and problematic microbes also occur but are not common. Microbial fabrics are characterized by microstromatolites,
microbial laminations, thrombolite, clotted peloids, and fenestrate forms. Calcimicrobes stabilized grains and modified and
created sediments, and the related syndepositional microbial fabrics affected the development of porosity/permeability of
Midale carbonates. Calcimicrobes and microbial fabrics in Midale Beds highlighted a significant account of microbial facies
associated with the Mississippian carbonates worldwide. 相似文献
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由于差异溶蚀作用,由碳酸盐岩强烈风化形成的红色风化壳通常表现出独特的剖面构型:风化壳发育深厚、下伏基岩面强烈起伏波动、溶沟和石牙相间展布。以黔中岩溶台地之上发育的红色风化壳——平坝剖面为例,通过宏观地质、地球化学、粒度分析以及矿物学等方法,并以邻近的两个石灰土剖面(罗吏剖面和龙洞堡剖面)作对比,对碳酸盐岩红色风化壳的形成过程进行了讨论,论证了微地域搬运是碳酸盐岩红色风化壳尤其是厚层红色风化壳形成过程的一种方式。溶沟部位的风化壳,从风化前锋向上的一定深度范围内,为原位残积风化的产物(残积层);在此深度以上的部分,为地势较高的相邻石牙部位不同风化程度的残积物的搬运堆积(堆积层),也是导致风化指标随深度呈锯齿状波动的直接原因。后者一般组成剖面的主体。风化壳的年代地层学表现为,在残积层,从风化前锋向上,风化年龄由新到老;在堆积层,从下到上,风化年龄由老到新。风化前锋是一个重要的地球化学作用场所,在这一狭窄的界面上,伴随碳酸盐矿物的快速淋失,残余酸不溶物开始了明显分解。而风化壳的后期演化是一个缓慢而长期的过程。达到重力平衡的剖面(即风化壳表面平缓、不发生微地域搬运的剖面),在由表及里的风化作用下,从地表向下的一定深度范... 相似文献
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Development of microbial carbonates in the Lower Cretaceous Codó Formation (north‐east Brazil): Implications for interpretation of microbialite facies associations and palaeoenvironmental conditions 
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下载免费PDF全文 Anelize M. Bahniuk Sylvia Anjos Almério B. França Nilo Matsuda John Eiler Judith A. Mckenzie Crisogono Vasconcelos 《Sedimentology》2015,62(1):155-181
The study of microbial carbonates has acquired new significance with the recognition that they retain valuable information related to biomineralization processes associated with microbial activity throughout geological time. Additionally, microbialites have a demonstrated economic potential to serve as excellent hydrocarbon reservoirs. The Lower Cretaceous Codó Formation, located in the Parnaiba Basin of north‐east Brazil, comprises a unique stratigraphic sequence of up to 20 m thick, well‐preserved carbonate microbialites. Deposited in a continental basin during the initial break up and separation of South America from Africa in the Early Cretaceous, this lacustrine carbonate sequence provides an excellent example to investigate the palaeoenvironmental conditions controlling microbialite facies development. Based on macroscopic and microscopic observations of outcrop and drill core samples, four microbialite facies (stromatolite, lamina, massive and spherulite) were defined and distinguished by textures and microbial fossil content. Changes in facies type are related to alternating palaeo‐water depths, as reflected by 87Sr/86Sr cycles resulting from fluctuations in the sources of meteoric water. Clumped isotope measurements of stromatolitic fabrics yield precipitation palaeo‐temperatures with an average value of 35°C. The δ18O values of bulk carbonate (?6·8 to ?1·5‰ Vienna Pee Dee Belemnite) imply precipitation from water with calculated δ18O values between ?1·6‰ and 1·8‰ Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water, reflecting precipitation from variably modified meteoric waters. The δ13C values of bulk carbonate (?15·5 to ?7·2‰ Vienna Pee Dee Belemnite) indicate a significant input of carbon derived from aerobic or anaerobic respiration of organic matter. Combined, the data indicate that the evolution of the Codó Formation occurred in a closed lacustrine palaeoenvironment with alternating episodes of contracting and expanding lake levels, which led to the development of specific microbialite facies associations. The results provide new insights into palaeoenvironmental settings, biogenicity and early diagenetic processes involved in the formation of ancient carbonate microbialites and, by extension, improve the knowledge of the reservoir geology of correlative units in deep waters offshore Brazil. 相似文献
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Mohsen Layeb Moez Ben Fadhel Yosra Layeb-Tounsi Mohamed Ben Youssef 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2014,7(8):3349-3363
From northern Tunisia, small-scale well-preserved microbialites, contemporaneous to the global oceanic anoxic event 2 (OAE 2) are first reported on the southern Tethyan Margin. These microbialites are encased within the pelagic organic-rich black shales of the Bahloul Formation (Cenomanian–Turonian transition). Biostratigraphic, petrographic, and geochemical investigations carried out to constrain their biogenicity and genesis character led to consider them as thrombolites and stromatolites occurring in lenticular bioherms/biostromes and columnar bodies co-relatable to the global ‘filament event’ of the authors, close to the base of the Watinoceras ammonite zone. Abundant clotted micrite, cyanobacterial filaments, and algal tissues point to the key process of microbial carbonate precipitation and to a major role played by microbes in the stabilisation and subsequent lithification, which in turn favoured the preservation of the original structure of the microbialites. These microbially induced carbonate formations are considered as favoured by chemosynthetic fauna of bivalve molluscs and lithistid sponges which were able to host symbiotic microbial communities. The latter contributed to the precipitation of authigenic calcite and non-carbonate minerals (e.g. pyrite) fuelled by microbial activity under sulphate-reducing conditions. The carbonate body onset is considered to be initiated by seafloor instability due to syndepositional fault acting that induced the appraisal of uplifted tilted blocks within oxygenated waters but near the anoxic water masses. Generated depressions allowed the development of chemosynthetic-based communities. Deep faults related to Triassic salt domes acted as conducts for hydrocarbon and salt brine expulsion to the seafloor and the microbialite growth was enhanced by an abrupt uprising sea level under warmer conditions. 相似文献
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Microbially mediated carbonate precipitation in a hypersaline lake,Big Pond (Eleuthera,Bahamas) 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
CHRISTINA GLUNK CHRISTOPHE DUPRAZ OLIVIER BRAISSANT KIMBERLEY L. GALLAGHER ERIC P. VERRECCHIA PIETER T. VISSCHER 《Sedimentology》2011,58(3):720-736
Microbial metabolism impacts the degree of carbonate saturation by changing the total alkalinity and calcium availability; this can result in the precipitation of carbonate minerals and thus the formation of microbialites. Here, the microbial metabolic activity, the characteristics and turnover of the extracellular polymeric substances and the physicochemical conditions in the water column and sediments of a hypersaline lake, Big Pond, Bahamas, were determined to identify the driving forces in microbialite formation. A conceptual model for organomineralization within the active part of the microbial mats that cover the lake sediments is presented. Geochemical modelling indicated an oversaturation with respect to carbonates (including calcite, aragonite and dolomite), but these minerals were never observed to precipitate at the mat–water interface. This failure is attributed to the capacity of the water column and upper layers of the microbial mat to bind calcium. A layer of high Mg‐calcite was present 4 to 6 mm below the surface of the mat, just beneath the horizons of maximum photosynthesis and aerobic respiration. This carbonate layer was associated with the zone of maximum sulphate reduction. It is postulated that extracellular polymeric substances and low molecular weight organic carbon produced at the surface (i.e. the cyanobacterial layer) of the mat bind calcium. Both aerobic and anaerobic heterotrophic microbes consume extracellular polymeric substances (each process accounting for approximately half of the total consumption) and low molecular weight organic carbon, liberating calcium and producing inorganic carbon. The combination of these geochemical changes can increase the carbonate saturation index, which may result in carbonate precipitation. In conclusion, the formation and degradation of extracellular polymeric substances, as well as sulphate reduction, may play a pivotal role in the formation of microbialites both in marine and hypersaline environments. 相似文献
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微生物碳酸盐岩是微生物与环境相互作用的产物,它的发育对古环境与微生物群落有着重要的指示意义。河北省平泉县地区中元古代高于庄组四段发育有凝块石、纹理石、叠层石多种微生物碳酸盐岩。凝块石以其内部独特的凝块组构而显著区别于具纹层构造的叠层石等其它微生物岩类型。根据尺寸大小与排列特点可将高于庄组凝块石中的凝块组构分为3种类型：厘米级别、致密的中凝块,毫米级别、似层状的小凝块与微米级别、层状分布的微凝块。显微与超显微观察显示,所有的凝块组构均由内核与外壳两个结构单元组成。内核主要为丝状细菌、球状细菌等微生物或有机质残留,围绕内核的是呈放射状、扇状分布的方解石外壳,方解石颗粒之间可见有薄片状胞外聚合物（EPS）残留。凝块中微生物残余及EPS的大量发现,表明了凝块组构的形成与微生物密切相关。环境中海水碳酸盐初始饱和度的高低可能是形成不同类型的凝块组构的原因。 相似文献