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    ISSN: 1437-3262
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Geosciences
    Description / Table of Contents: Abstract The origin and development of Early Devonian (late Pragian to late Zlichovian; predominantly uppermost Zlichovian as indicated by conodont faunas) mud mounds of the Hamar Laghdad area in the eastern Antiatlas, Morocco, are controlled by extrinsic and intrinsic factors. Extrinsic factors include the existence of a paleohigh (Lochkovian volcaniclastics), unidirectional currents and repeated storm events as well as sea level fluctuations. Intrinsic, biologically induced factors are the preferred growth of organisms on the top and the flanks of the mounds because of more favourable ecological conditions, and a rapid synsedimentary lithification of the steep mound flanks by interskeletal cementation of auloporid tabulate corals. The mounds developed in an epicontinental basin below the wave base but within the range of storms. The formation of the mounds started within the uppermost part of the bedded crinoid facies of the Kess-Kess Formation with the hydrological accumulation of a bioclastic pile. This elevation became settled by crinoids and high-diverse tabulate corals producing bioclastic sediment. Binding activities of the organisms were missing, calcareous algae and stromatoporoids are completely absent. Baffling by thamnoporid tabulate corals might have occurred locally but was not important for the development of the mounds. Steep slopes to the north and less steep slopes to the south may be the result of north-northwest to south-southeast trending currents, derived from orientation patterns of orthocone nautiloids in the uppermost beds of the Kess-Kess Formation. A synsedimentary cementation of the flanks, possibly triggered by submarine interskeletal cementation of patchily distributed auloporid colonies, protected the bioclastic sediment against redistribution by frequent storms (indicated by densely spaced eventstone intervals and partly also by the common »Stromatactis«-like structures within the mound facies). Accumulation of more parautochthonous bioclastic sediment within the mounds as compared to the intermound area, therefore, is caused by a selfsustaining system of hydrologic piling of sediment triggered by storms, preferred settlement of organisms upon these piles, producing bioclastic sediment and coeval biocementation of the growing mound flanks. This model differs from existing mud mound models in the lack or only minor significance of binding and baffling, in the lack of mound facies sequences and in the greater importance of extrinsic control factors.
    Abstract: Résumé Les mud mounds de la région de Hamar Laghdad (Anti-Atlas oriental, Maroc), s'étendent du Praguien supérieur au Zlichovien supérieur, avec prédominance au Zlichovien tardif d'après les faunes à conodontes. Leur origine et leur développement sont régis par des facteurs externes et internes. Les facteurs externes comprennent: l'existence du Lochkovien au Praguien inférieur d'un paléorelief d'origine volcanique, la présence de courants de fond orientés, l'occurrence de tempêtes répétées ainsi que des fluctuations du niveau de la mer. Les facteurs internes, d'origine biologique, sont: la croissance des organismes qui, en raison des conditions écologiques plus favorables, s'effectue de préférence sur le sommet et les flancs des mounds, ainsi qu'une lithification rapide synsédimentaire sur les flancs raides due à la cimentation par des coraux tabulés auloporides. Les mounds se sont développés dans un bassin épicontinental à une profondeur inférieure à la base des vagues, mais atteinte par l'agitation des tempêtes. La formation des mounds a commencé dans la partie supérieure de la Formation de Kess-Kess, avec l'accumulation par les tempêtes d'un sédiment bioclastique. Les légers bombements ainsi engendrés ont été alors occupés par des crinoïdes et divers coraux tabulés qui ont engendré de nouveaux sédiments bioclastiques. Les organismes susceptibles de fixer les sédiments, comme les algues ou les stromatopores, font défaut. Le rôle des tabulés comme capteurs de sédiments était subordonné. La présence de pentes raides sur les flancs nord et plus modérées sur les flancs sud est attribuée à des courants de tempête, dirigés du NNW au SSE, dont témoignent l'orientation de Nautiloïdes orthocones dans les couches supérieures de la Formation de Kess-Kess. Les mud-mounds en voie de croissance ont été protégés de la destruction par les tempêtes répétées grâce à une biocimentation synsédimentaire, dont témoignent des niveaux serrés d'eventstone ainsi que les structures fréquentes de type «Stromatactis». De la sorte, l'accumulation préférentielle de sédiments bioclastiques sur les mounds, par rapport aux aires voisines, résulte d'un système auto-entretenu, comportant l'accumulation par l'action de tempêtes de sédiments en amas surbaissés, l'occupation préférentielle de ces reliefs par des organismes producteurs de bioclastites et la cimentation concomitante des flancs des mounds en formation. Ce modèle se distingue de ceux qui sont habituellement proposés par l'absence d'organismes fixateurs de sédiments, par l'absence de séquences de faciès dans les mounds et par le rôle important joué par les facteurs externes.
    Notes: Zusammenfassung Die Bildung der unterdevonischen Mud Mounds (oberes Prag bis Zlichov; nach Conodonten-Faunen überwiegend Grenzbereich Zlichov/Daleje) im Hamar Laghdad im östlichen Antiatlas (Marokko) wurde durch exogene und biologische Faktoren kontrolliert: Exogene Faktoren umfassen die Existenz eines im Zeitbereich Lochkov bis unteres Prag gebildeten Hochgebietes (Vulkanschwelle), die Auswirkungen von Meeresspiegelschwankungen sowie die Existenz von gerichteten Bodenströmungen und von häufig auftretenden Großstürmen. Biologisch induzierte Faktoren sind das bevorzugte Wachstum sessiler Organismen (Crinoiden, tabulate Korallen) am Top und am Hang der Mounds und die durch die synsedimentäre Zementation von Auloporiden-Kolonien ausgelöste rasche Lithifizierung der steilen Mound-Flanken. Die Mounds entstanden unterhalb der Wellenbasis, aber oberhalb der Sturmwellenbasis. Die Mound-Bildung begann im obersten Abschnitt der Kess-Kess-Formation mit der durch Stürme verstärkten Anhäufung von bioklastischem Sediment. Die derart entstandenen flachen Hügelstrukturen wurden durch Crinoiden und tabulate Korallen (Auloporiden, Favositiden/Thamnoporen) besiedelt, die neues bioklastisches Sediment lieferten. Sedimentbindende Organismen wie Kalkalgen oder Stromatoporen fehlen. Die Rolle der tabulaten Korallen als Sedimentfänger war gering (Thamnoporen). NNW-SSE gerichtete Strömungen (abgeleitet aus der Einregelung von orthoconen Nautiloideen) dürften für die Ausbildung von steilen Nord- und weniger steilen Südflanken der Mounds verantwortlich gewesen sein. Die synsedimentäre Biozementation schützte die wachsenden Mounds gegen Zerstörung durch die in relativ kurzen Abständen auftretenden Stürme, deren Wirkung durch eng aufeinanderfolgende Eventstone-Lagen und durch Stromatactis-ähnliche Hohlraumstrukturen angezeigt wird. Die Mound-Bildung entspricht daher einem sich selbst verstärkenden System, bestehend aus einer durch Stürme induzierten Sedimentanhäufung auf einer Tiefschwelle, bevorzugter Besiedlung der derart gebildeten lokalen Kalksand- und Schlammbänke durch bioklastisches Sediment liefernde Crinoiden und tabulate Korallen und gleichzeitiger rascher Zementation der Mound-Flanken. Das Modell unterscheidet sich von üblichen Mud Mound Modellen durch die geringe bis fehlende Bedeutung der Sedimentbildung durch sedimentbindende oder sedimentfangende Organismen, durch das Fehlen von deutlichen Fazies-Folgen innerhalb der Mounds und durch die größere Rolle von exogenen Steuerungsfaktoren.
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    Publication Date: 2015-10-28
    Description: The Reef Ridge deposit is a typical supergene "nonsulfide" zinc mineralization, located in the Yukon-Koyukuk region of west-central Alaska (USA). It is hosted in sedimentary rocks of the Farewell terrane, a continental fragment sandwiched between the Siberian and Laurentian cratons during the early Paleozoic. The mineralization occurs in Lower–Middle Devonian shallow-water dolomite of a Paleozoic carbonate platform succession belonging to the Nixon Fork tectonic unit. The mineralization consists of oxidized minerals associated with minor remaining sulfides (pyrite/marcasite and sphalerite). In the oxidation zone, smithsonite is the predominant mineral, mixed with Fe-(hydr)oxides (goethite and hematite). A complete petrographic and mineralogical study was performed. Samples were analyzed by X-ray diffraction, inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry and emission spectrometry, energy dispersive scanning electron microscopy, and QEMSCAN® (quantitative evaluation of minerals by scanning electron microscopy). The most abundant mineral in the nonsulfide ore is smithsonite. Similar to other nonsulfide Zn deposits worldwide, the first generation of smithsonite has replaced both primary sphalerite and the host carbonates. A second smithsonite generation precipitated as cement in vugs, cavities, and fractures. Minor zinc amounts also occur in the Fe-(hydr)oxides, and zinc traces have been identified in clay minerals. The carbon and oxygen isotope values of smithsonite at Reef Ridge vary from –0.7 to 2.1 relative to Vienna Peedee belemnite (VPDB) and 19.1 to 21.9 relative to Vienna standard mean ocean water (VSMOW). The 13 C values are similar to those of the host rock, suggesting that the predominant carbon source for smithsonite was the host carbonates, with only a limited contribution from organic carbon. The oxygen isotope ratios of Reef Ridge smithsonite are more depleted in 18 O compared to supergene nonsulfides from other parts of the world formed under warm-humid, temperate, or semiarid climates. The oxygen isotope fractionation between water and smithsonite, which relates the 18 O value of the mineralizing solution, the formation temperature of smithsonite, and its 18 O composition, indicates that the 18 O composition of Reef Ridge smithsonite is related to very low formation temperatures (~10 °C), and strong depletion in 18 O of the precipitating waters. The 18 O smithsonite composition, the strong 18 O depletion, and the relationship of the formation of the Reef Ridge nonsulfide deposit with the development of the Sleetmute upland surface (which started in the Late Tertiary and continues to the present) indicate that the formation of the Reef Ridge nonsulfide deposit is probably related to cold/humid weathering episodes during a period comprised between Late Tertiary and Holocene. The "traditional" interpretation on the genesis of Zn nonsulfide deposits in warm-humid, temperate, or semiarid conditions should be questioned where other climate zones are indicated.
    Print ISSN: 0016-7606
    Electronic ISSN: 1943-2674
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    Publication Date: 2015-06-28
    Description: During the Global Taghanic Biocrisis ( c. 385 Ma), Middle Devonian faunas worldwide underwent extinction. In the biocrisis type region, the northern Appalachian Basin, biodiversity changes occurred through three bioevents that ultimately resulted in the loss of numerous endemic taxa. Carbon isotope excursions during this biocrisis have been documented in various stratigraphic successions, but never in the type region. Herein, we reconstruct changes in 13 C carb from the biocrisis type region and compare these changes to local faunal transitions. An approximately 1.5 negative excursion corresponds to the first bioevent, a time of inferred global warming and replacement of most endemic taxa of the mid-palaeolatitude Appalachian Basin by invasive palaeoequatorial taxa. An approximately 2 positive excursion is associated with the second bioevent, recognized as a return of the endemic fauna and the loss of invasive taxa. This positive excursion occurs near the Polygnathus ansatus–Ozarkodina semialternans zonal boundary and is recognized elsewhere. Faunal cosmopolitanism associated with the third bioevent corresponds with an inflection in the carbon isotope record from negative to positive trending values, which agrees with a positive carbon record excursion seen elsewhere at the semialternans – Schmidtognathus hermanni zonal boundary. This new carbon isotope record provides an important reference for recognizing this biocrisis in other areas and facies. Supplementary material: The 13 C and 18 O dataset collected for this study is available at http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/SUP18840 .
    Print ISSN: 0305-8719
    Electronic ISSN: 2041-4927
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    Publication Date: 2012-03-08
    Description: The 18 O values of phosphatic microfossils recovered from NW Ireland are used to determine the timing and magnitude of cooling associated with the onset of the Carboniferous glaciation. Microfossil fish 18 O apatite demonstrates a +2.4 (V-SMOW) shift, which, once corrected for 18 O seawater changes owing to evolving ice volumes, equates to an approximate 4.5 °C reduction in equatorial sea surface temperature between the earliest Asbian and the mid-Brigantian (late Visean). Both conodont and microfossil fish 18 O apatite indicate stabilization of an ‘icehouse’ climate during the Brigantian and into the Serpukhovian. Substantial late Visean cooling identified herein is in good agreement with global glacioeustatic records. Supplementary material: Further information on the palaeogeography, lithostratigraphy and palaeoenvironments of the sections examined as well as the sample composition and analytical methods of oxygen isotope analyses is available at http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/SUP18511 .
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    Publication Date: 2017-06-02
    Description: The Mina Grande zinc nonsulfide deposit (Amazonas region, Peru) consists of several accumulations in karst cavities of Zn oxide minerals, derived from weathering of a Mississippi Valley-type deposit hosted in Mesozoic carbonate rocks of the Condorsinga Formation (Pucará Group). The karst cavities hosting the nonsulfide ores were developed in the Miocene along northwest-southeast faults (avg 230° dip, 70° dip angle) associated with regional structures, and locally along stratification joints (avg 8° strike, 278° dip, and 26° dip angle). Thus far, the Mina Grande Zn accumulations have been partially mined in two pits (named "Fase A" and "Fase B") and explored in a third area, named "Fase C." In 2008, the resources were as follows: Fase A = 160,000 metric tons (t) @ 21.2% Zn, Fase B = 36,400 t @ 28.9% Zn, and Fase C = 116,700 t @ 22.5% Zn. The nonsulfide mineral assemblage, consisting mostly of hydrozincite, smithsonite, and hemimorphite, is associated with few remnants of the hypogene ore (pyrite and sphalerite). Mineralogical and petrographic studies revealed several texturally distinct smithsonite and hydrozincite generations, which are characterized by extremely negative 13 C compositions, pointing to the prevailing contribution of an isotopically light carbon component from the oxidation of organic matter-derived carbon, and different 18 O isotope compositions: 26.9 to 27.2 and 26.0 to 26.3 18 O VSMOW for smithsonite, and averages 24.6 and 23.7 18 O VSMOW for hydrozincite. These distinct 18 O compositions indicate that smithsonite and hydrozincite precipitated at least after two depositional stages. These stages were probably related to several periods of uplift that occurred in the Bongará district since at least ~10 Ma, when the transition from the Pebas to Acre systems affected the Amazonas foreland basin in the Miocene. The karst activity, to which the supergene mineralization is related, was restricted to the late Miocene and early Pliocene periods. Climatic conditions reconstructed from the ecosystems persisting in the region from Late Tertiary to Recent time suggest that the Mina Grande supergene mineralization was associated with several weathering episodes that occurred under a climate resembling the present-day climatic conditions.
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    Publication Date: 2017-10-11
    Description: Fluorine-, boron- and magnesium-rich metamorphosed xenoliths occur in the Campanian Ignimbrite deposits at Fiano (southern Italy), at ~50 km northeast of the sourced volcanic area. These rocks originated from Mesozoic limestones of the Campanian Apennines, embedded in a fluid flow. The Fiano xenoliths studied consist of ten fluorophlogopite-bearing calc-silicate rocks and five carbonate xenoliths, characterized by combining mineralogical analyses with whole-rock and stable isotope data. The micaceous xenoliths are composed of abundant idiomorphic fluorophlogopite, widespread fluorite, F-rich chondrodite, fluoborite, diopside, Fe(Mg)-oxides, calcite, humite, K-bearing fluoro-richterite and grossular. Of the five mica-free xenoliths, two are calcite marbles, containing subordinate fluorite and hematite, and three are weakly metamorphosed carbonates, composed only of calcite. The crystal structure and composition of fluorophlogopite approach that of the end-member. The Fiano xenoliths are enriched in trace elements with respect to the primary limestones. Comparisons between the rare-earth element ( REE ) patterns of the Fiano xenoliths and those of both Campanian Ignimbrite and Somma-Vesuvius marble and carbonate xenoliths show that the Fiano pattern overlaps that of Somma-Vesuvius marble and carbonate xenoliths, and reproduces the trend of Campanian Ignimbrite rocks. Values of 13 C and 18 O depict the same trend of depletion in the heavy isotopes observed in the Somma-Vesuvius nodules, and is related to thermometamorphism. Trace-element distribution, paragenesis, stable isotope geochemistry and data modelling point to infiltration of steam enriched in F, B, Mg and As into carbonate rocks at a temperature of ~300–450°C during the emplacement of the Campanian Ignimbrite.
    Print ISSN: 0026-461X
    Electronic ISSN: 1471-8022
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    Publication Date: 2015-08-26
    Description: The controversial Capitanian (Middle Permian, 262 Ma) extinction event is only known from equatorial latitudes, and consequently its global extent is poorly resolved. We demonstrate that there were two, severe extinctions amongst brachiopods in northern Boreal latitudes (Spitsbergen) in the Middle to Late Permian, separated by a recovery phase. New age dating of the Spitsbergen strata (belonging to the Kapp Starostin Formation), using strontium isotopes and d 13 C trends and comparison with better-dated sections in Greenland, suggests that the first crisis occurred in the Capitanian. This age assignment indicates that this Middle Permian extinction is manifested at higher latitudes. Redox proxies (pyrite framboids and trace metals) show that the Boreal crisis coincided with an intensification of oxygen depletion, implicating anoxia in the extinction scenario. The widespread and near-total loss of carbonates across the Boreal Realm also suggests a role for acidification in the crisis. The recovery interval saw the appearance of new brachiopod and bivalve taxa alongside survivors, and an increased mollusk dominance, resulting in an assemblage reminiscent of younger Mesozoic assemblages. The subsequent end-Permian mass extinction terminated this Late Permian radiation.
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    Publication Date: 2017-06-01
    Print ISSN: 0361-0128
    Electronic ISSN: 1554-0774
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