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Late Quaternary terrestrial climate records from the semi-arid zone of the Western Cape of South Africa are rare. However, palaeoenvironmental information may be inferred from ancient termite mounds of the region. Calcrete lenses in these mounds have δ13C and δ18O values that show systematic changes with radiocarbon dates, which range from 33,629–36,709 to 21,676–23,256 cal yr BP. These dates confirm that these heuweltjies had been present in the landscape since the last glacial period. The decrease in δ13C and δ18O from 33,629–36,709 to 21,676–23,256 cal yr BP indicates that climate information is recorded by the calcretes. It is suggested that a progressive decline in air temperature and an increase in moisture availability, and a decline in abundance of C4 or CAM plants, occurred in the region during the time heuweltjie calcite precipitated. 相似文献
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A steep‐margined carbonate platform is developed in the Carboniferous synorogenic foreland basin of northern Spain. Dips of 60–90° produced during Late Carboniferous thrusting enable cross‐sections of a 4‐km‐wide portion of the marginal area of this platform (Las Llacerias outcrop) to be studied in aerial photographs at a seismic scale. Three stratal domains are observed: (1) a horizontal‐bedded platform; (2) a clinoformal‐bedded margin with a relief of up to 500 m; and (3) a low‐angle toe‐of‐slope, where slope beds interfinger with basin sediments. The slope shows well‐bedded sigmoidal clinoforms with depositional dips ranging from 15° to 32°. Based on lithology and stratal patterns, four facies groups have been recognized: (1) a flat‐topped platform, in which thick algal boundstone, skeletal packstone–grainstone and peloidal micrite wackestone with a poorly rhythmic character prevail; (2) the platform margin and upper slope, characterized by microbial boundstone spanning a bathymetric range of ≈150 m measured from the break of slope; (3) a slope, predominantly composed of margin‐derived rudstones and breccias; and (4) a toe‐of‐slope to basin zone, where a cyclic alternation of spiculitic siltstones, packstone to grainstone calciturbidites and rudstone/breccia is visible. Five successive stages of platform development are deduced: (1) Bashkirian: flooding of the pre‐existing Serpukhovian platform giving rise to the nucleation of a low‐angle ramp to the south‐east of the study area with microbial mud‐mound accumulations, and breccias and calciturbidites on the margins; (2) Early Moscovian: an influx of siliciclastic sediment buried part of the platform and reduced the area of carbonate sedimentation; (3) Moscovian: aggradation and progradation of the carbonate system produced an extensive steep‐margined and flat‐topped shallow‐water platform (shelf system); (4) Latest Moscovian–earliest Kasimovian: drowning of the platform; and (5) Kasimovian: covering of the platform by marly calcareous ramp sediments. 相似文献
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Ben De Mol Max Kozachenko Andy Wheeler Hugo Alvares Jean-Pierre Henriet Karine Olu-Le Roy 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2007,96(1):103-120
High-resolution seismic profiles, swath bathymetry, side-scan sonar data and video imageries are analysed in this detailed
study of five carbonate mounds from the Belgica mound province with special emphasis on the well-surveyed Thérèse Mound. The
selected mounds are located in the deepest part of the Belgica mound province at water depths of 950 m. Seismic data illustrate
that the underlying geology is characterised by drift sedimentation in a general northerly flowing current regime. Sigmoidal
sediment bodies create local slope breaks on the most recent local erosional surface, which act as the mound base. No preferential
mound substratum is observed, neither is there any indication for deep geological controls on coral bank development. Seismic
evidence suggests that the start-up of the coral bank development was shortly after a major erosional event of Late Pliocene–Quaternary
age. The coral bank geometry has been clearly affected by the local topography of this erosional base and the prevailing current
regime. The summits of the coral banks are relatively flat and the flanks are steepest on their upper slopes. Deposition of
the encased drift sequence has been influenced by the coral bank topography. Sediment waves are formed besides the coral banks
and are the most pronounced bedforms. These seabed structures are probably induced by bottom current up to 1 m/s. Large sediment
waves are colonised by living corals and might represent the initial phase of coral bank development. The biological facies
distribution of the coral banks illustrate a living coral cap on the summit and upper slope and a decline of living coral
populations toward the lower flanks. The data suggest that the development of the coral banks in this area is clearly an interaction
between biological growth processes and drift deposition both influenced by the local topography and current regime. 相似文献
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Fulvio Franchi Barbara Cavalazzi Catherine Pierre Roberto Barbieri 《Geological Journal》2015,50(5):634-650
New evidences based on a combination of field and laboratory investigations reinforce the hypotheses that the circulation of warm fluids has remarkably contributed to the origin and development of the Devonian Kess Kess mounds of the Hamar Laghdad Ridge (eastern Anti‐Atlas, Morocco). The limestones of the Hamar Laghdad Ridge were deposited above a structural high generated by calc‐alkaline volcanic activity that has probably fuelled the circulation of warm fluids throughout the overlying carbonate units. The geological and palaeontological attributes described throughout the succession of the Hamar Laghdad Ridge (from the Lochkovian to Frasnian intervals) are interpreted as the result of hydrothermal processes related to a volcanic system. In particular, these attributes seem consistent with a chemo‐physical environment fuelled by the circulation of warm and late magmatic fluids. These attributes include a very low oxygen stable isotope signature (δ18O ~ −10‰) for carbonates. Evidences for a late magmatic fluid circulation consist of volcanic glass and pyroclasts replacement with hydrothermal minerals such as quartz, anatase and clinochlore. Fluids circulating through veins and pores into sediments, and venting to the seafloor, probably induced the formation of cavities where monospecific trilobite communities were detected. The partially silicified trilobite remains are associated with traces of goethite. This iron‐bearing oxide mineral is also present in the upper part of the Hamar Laghdad Ridge. All these attributes are here interpreted as possible evidences for a low‐temperature hydrothermal venting system active during the Lochkovian–Frasnian time span. This study combines an updated revision with new petrographic, geological and geochemical results aimed at providing an overall framework on the origin and early diagenesis of the Devonian succession of Hamar Laghdad. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献