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Laminated cyanobacterial mats in sediments of solar salt works: some sedimentological implications 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Formation of microlaminated sediments in solar salt works along the Mediterranean coast in southern France only occurs within a restricted salinity range of 60–150 gl?1. These salinities are associated with development of a laminated cyanobacterial mat composed primarily of the filamentous cyanobacteria Microcoleus chthonoplastes interbedded with detrital laminae. Transplants of the cyanobacterial mat to a less saline zone (36–60 gl?1) indicated that the cyanobacterial mats failed to colonize the less saline waters due to herbivorous snails and competition for light from floating algal masses of Cladophora and Enteromorpha. Neither the snails nor the Cladophora and Enteromorpha masses are tolerant of salinities above 60 gl?1, and therefore the Microcoleus mats are restricted to those areas of the solar salt works with these higher salinities. Analyses of salinity, conductivity, dissolved oxygen and pH in shallow salt pans (with salinities of 60–150 gl?1) established a relationship between the daily development of oxygen supersaturation and cyanobacterial photosynthesis. Sediments are unlaminated in those portions of the solar salt works where there are no cyanobacterial mats. These mats are frequently drained of their overlying water, and thus desiccation cracks divide them into polygonal plates. The development and translocation of these plates is enhanced by gas bubbles which form under the surface of the mats. No correlation between the microlaminae in sections from two cores located approximately 1 m apart was observed. This was consistent with the hypothesis that the surface of the desiccation crack polygons can be removed by currents and redeposited on the top of other cyanobacterial mat polygons. This process results in a ‘patchwork quilt’of young and old cyanobacterial mat polygons with an irregular microlamination pattern. The presence of such an irregular pattern of laminae permits an important distinction to be made between sediments associated with stromatolite formation and those associated with the very fine and horizontal varved sediments of stratified (meromictic) water bodies. The sedimentological significance of these observations is reviewed in relation to the processes of stromatolite genesis. 相似文献
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Distribution of sedimentary organic matter in a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic platform environment: Oxfordian of the Swiss Jura Mountains 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
Outcrop sections from the Swiss Jura, consisting of carbonate-siliciclastic deposits spanning the Middle-Late Oxfordian boundary, provide a palaeogeographical cross-section ranging from coastal to shallow platform and intra-platform basin environments. Using a sedimentological and a 3rd order sequence stratigraphic framework based on those sections, the distribution of sedimentary organic matter (palynofacies) has been spatially studied in relation to sequence stratigraphy. The main factors influencing the spatial variations of sedimentary organic matter are the proximity of land, organic productivity, level of biodegradation and hydrodynamic conditions of the palaeoenvironment. These factors determine the distribution of the land-derived, relatively allochthonous organic constituents (phytoclasts, pollen and spores), and marine, relatively autochthonous constituents (phytoplankton and foraminifera linings). Five main palynofacies parameters appear as good indicators of proximal-distal trends: the relative proportion of total phytoclasts; the proportion of fresh, translucent fragments among these phytoclasts; the ratio of marine to continental palynomorphs; and the relative amount and species diversity of dinoflagellate cysts. In lowstand deposits, high-energy hydrodynamic conditions may affect these trends on the shallow platform, where storms tend to increase the proportion of the marine organic fraction landwards. These five palynofacies parameters are largely related to water depth. Therefore, when compared with the established 3rd order sequence stratigraphic framework, their stratigraphic variations indicate relative sea-level changes or, alternatively, proximality changes. Parameters indicative of more distal conditions increase in the transgressive and early highstand, and decrease in the late highstand. The opposite occurs for parameters indicative of more proximal conditions. Foraminifera linings seem to be particularly concentrated near the shelf edge and on the slope. Finally, bisaccate pollen may display cyclicity associated with alternating humid and dry periods. This palaeoclimatic signature may be related to orbital cyclicity. 相似文献
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A detailed analysis of sedimentary organic matter (or palynofacies) was carried out on thermally immature to early mature Upper Jurassic and Hauterivian condensed intervals in deep-sea carbonate–marl alternations outcropping in the Vocontian Basin (SE France). All the condensed sections studied are characterized by intense bioturbation and very low organic carbon content (< 0·25 wt.%), indicative of oxic depositional conditions. Oxic condensed sections display variable palynofacies signatures, which are best illustrated by: (1) the ratio of continental to marine constituents; (2) the ratio of opaque to translucent phytoclasts (i.e. woody debris) and (3) the preservation of palynomorphs (based on fluorescence intensity and morphological preservation state in transmitted light microscopy). Both of the ratios increase with the degree of palynomorph degradation, which shows that phytoclasts, especially the opaque ones, become relatively concentrated in the most degraded facies. These observations lead to the classification of oxic condensed sections into three organic facies types showing different degrees of preservation and palynofacies signatures. Type 1 organic facies display intense degradation and are characterized by high values of the ratio of continental to marine fraction. They record unfavourable depositional environments for preservation of organic matter. Type 2 organic facies are most common and are characterized by a decreasing value of the ratio of continental to marine fraction. Type 3 organic facies display the same trend of the ratio of continental to marine fraction as type 2, but the palynomorph assemblage is better preserved. Type 1 and type 3 organic facies are relatively rare. Recognizing these organic facies types is important when analysing the relationship between sedimentary organic matter and sequence stratigraphy, because it allows the use of the appropriate palynofacies parameters. In particular, the use of the ratio of continental to marine constituents, usually a very good indicator of regressive–transgressive trends, becomes questionable in highly degraded intervals. Moreover, distinguishing between well-preserved or highly degraded palynofacies in condensed intervals provides valuable information on the oxicity of the depositional environment. 相似文献
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Abstract— To assess whether the alkali behavior observed in chondrules of primitive meteorites is attributable to volatilization from the raw materials of chondrules during chondrule formation events or attributable to condensation processes from the nebular gas, we set up a new experimental device able to expose silicate melt samples to a controlled alkali partial pressure at high temperature under fixed O fugacity. Using a mixture of potassium carbonate (K2CO3) and graphite (C) as the source of the K gas (Kg), we studied the condensation kinetics of K and its solubility in CaO‐MgO‐Al2O3‐SiO2 silicate melts, according to the reaction 2 K (g) + 1/2 (g) = K2O (melt) From these results, we show that alkali entering in chondrules from the nebular gas is a viable mechanism to explain the chondrules alkali contents and their δ41K‐isotopic signatures, at timescales relevant to chondrule formation. Finally, we also suggest that chondrules may have formed in non‐canonical nebular environments and that the flash‐heating scenario is not a prerequisite to chondrule formation. 相似文献
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JESSICA TROFIMOVS JODIE K. FISHER HEATHER A. MACDONALD PETER J. TALLING R. STEPHEN J. SPARKS MALCOLM B. HART CHRISTOPHER W. SMART GEORGES BOUDON CHRISTINE DEPLUS JEAN‐CHRISTOPHE KOMOROWSKI ANNE LE FRIANT STEVEN G. MORETON MELANIE J. LENG 《Sedimentology》2010,57(3):735-759
Bioclastic flow deposits offshore from the Soufrière Hills volcano on Montserrat in the Lesser Antilles were deposited by the largest volume sediment flows near this active volcano in the last 26 kyr. The volume of these deposits exceeds that of the largest historic volcanic dome collapse in the world, which occurred on Montserrat in 2003. These flows were most probably generated by a large submarine slope failure of the carbonate shelf comprising the south‐west flank of Antigua or the east flank of Redonda; adjacent islands that are not volcanically active. The bioclastic flow deposits are relatively coarse‐grained and either ungraded or poorly graded, and were deposited by non‐cohesive debris flow and high density turbidity currents. The bioclastic deposit often comprises multiple sub‐units that cannot be correlated between core sites; some located just 2 km apart. Multiple sub‐units in the bioclastic deposit result from either flow reflection, stacking of multiple debris flow lobes, and/or multi‐stage collapse of the initial landslide. This study provides unusually precise constraints on the age of this mass flow event that occurred at ca 14 ka. Few large submarine landslides have been well dated, but the slope failures that have been dated are commonly associated with periods of rapid sea‐level change. 相似文献
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GEORGES MILLOT 《Sedimentology》1967,8(4):259-280
The significance of recent studies on the argillaceous rocks in the interpretation of sedimentary facies (including the red beds) Attapulgite and sepiolite are clay minerals, neoformed in the alkaline chemical facies. The ions, Si, Al, Mg, which are necessary for authigenesis, are leached from the continent under humid tropical conditions. Lateritic profiles originate only on the continents. If erosion begins again, the siderolithic facies, which contains a great proportion of inherited kaolinite, succeeds the alkaline chemical facies. These two facies are mutually connected in space and time. The “red-sandstone” facies consists of a reworking of altered rubidied sands, which originate in warm climates with alternating humid and dry seasons. It is the maintenance of erosion by living tectonics which determines the intensity of the alteration. The “bituminous-coal” facies corresponds to conditions which are analagous to the previous periods, but more humid, with more intense subsidence and a higher general base level of erosion. Bituminous-coal facies and red-sandstone facies are characterized by the predominance of illite and are connected in time. In the geochemical cycle, detrital argillaceous series succeed the carbonated and saliferous facies. Under certain conditions, these chemical facies indue a positive transformation, i.e., aggradation under the influence of the confined environment. Thus, the detrital, transformed or neoformed clay minerals can be used as palaeogeographical or palaeoclimatical indicators 相似文献
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