华北下二叠统太原组Zoophycos潜穴中碳酸盐岩微形体的特征及其意义

华北地区下二叠统太原组碳酸盐岩中的Zoophycos遗迹化石十分丰富,根据其潜穴充填物颜色的不同,可将太原组Zoophycos分为四种类型,即具黑色、灰色、灰白色、红色充填物的Zoophycos。本文选取河南焦作和山西附城太原组剖面中具有代表性的Zoophycos样品,利用扫描电子显微镜和能谱仪对其潜穴中的充填物进行了超微特征观察及元素组成测定,发现了大量成因与微生物相关的碳酸盐岩微形体（单体矿物和集合体）,识别出球状（表面光滑的球状体、表面具有不定形细粒结构的球状体、表面呈刺状细粒结构的球状体和球状集合体）、杆状（刺杆状分枝形网状体、刺杆状单体、螺旋杆状单体、双列杆状体、光滑直线形杆状单体、末端膨大的光滑杆状体）、簇状、网状、瓶状和似脑球状等6种形态类型,其中多数显示出不同的微生物结构。这一发现表明,Zoophycos遗迹化石并非简单的觅食迹或食物储藏所,其造迹生物与微生物很可能存在互利共生关系。此次研究有助于探索地质微生物作用对地球化学过程的影响,并为精细分析该研究区太原组碳酸盐岩的形成过程及其沉积演化提供了微观资料。     

中国遗迹学研究十年进展

近十年来,中国遗迹学的研究取得许多新进展和新认识,重要成果概述如下:(1)在显生宙海相和过渡相沉积中新识别出84个遗迹属和211个遗迹种,新建28种遗迹组合及26种遗迹组构;在中生代和新生代陆相冲积扇、河流与湖泊沉积中识别出44个遗迹属和107个遗迹种,新建22种遗迹组合及10种遗迹组构;(2)论述了寒武纪底质革命对早...     

微生物岩的概念和重庆老龙洞剖面P-T界线地层微生物岩成因*

微生物岩的原始定义指底栖微生物主导形成的沉积体或岩石体。笔者对该概念进行了扩充,认为微生物岩除了包括叠层石、凝块石、纹层石、核形石、均一石之外,还应该包括微生物骨架岩、微生物粘结岩、非钙化浮游或漂浮微生物形成的模铸岩、矿化浮游或漂浮微生物形成的颗粒岩和泥粒岩。P-T界线地层微生物岩的特征是具有由较粗矿物晶体(主要是方解石,其次是白云石)组成的斑点状、树枝状、网状结构的灰岩。这3种结构分别称为斑点状体、树枝状体、网状体,在露头上呈暗色,在薄片中呈浅色,一般由无定形的亮晶充填体和其间的微亮晶组成。亮晶充填体是指无定形的孔洞被不同成岩期形成的矿物充填形成的结构体,因成岩作用各异,造成不同层位、不同地点的亮晶充填体内部的矿物类型和充填顺序存在差异;所有的亮晶充填体都不具有壁,故不是钙化化石。通过形态、大小和生态比较,以及形成演化分析,认为亮晶充填体的前身是漂浮蓝细菌微囊菌,胶鞘是微囊菌形成模铸化石的关键因素。亮晶充填体是表层水漂浮生活的微囊菌沉入海底后,被泥晶沉积物掩埋或者被早期海底胶结物胶结,在泥晶沉积物半固结或固结之后腐烂留下的孔洞被后期成岩作用形成的矿物充填形成的。P-T界线地层微生物岩段顶部遭受成岩作用程度高,树枝状体和网状体中的亮晶充填体的轮廓基本都被破坏,变成微亮晶和亮晶,以前被学者解释为凝块石;但斑点状体、树枝状体、网状体是成岩流体沿着亮晶充填体或其他化石丰富的地方运移形成较粗的晶体而造成的,并不符合凝块石的定义。同时,少数学者把树枝状体本身当成底栖生物,也是没有充分认识树枝状体的矿物组成而做的解释。该微生物岩段含有钙化的小球状化石和同心层状化石,但它们不是组成微生物岩的主体。     

Microbial dolomite in the sabkha environment of the middle Cambrian in the Tarim Basin,NW China

In the Tarim Basin, dolomite, which formed during the middle Cambrian associated with evaporites, has been attributed to the sabkha-style dolomite formed during the syndepositional period. The sedimentary microfacies suggests dolomite formation in the middle Cambrian is an ancient analogue of the sabkha of Abu Dhabi. Poorly crystallised dolomite spheroids or ovoids within or on the surface of dolomite crystals are a common phenomenon that can be widely observed in different stromatolites in the upper part of the intertidal zone and strongly resemble the morphology in modern sabkha dolomite-producing microbial mats and in microbial culture experiments. These lines of evidence suggest organic substrates for dolomite nucleation. Dolomite formation in the middle Cambrian in the Tarim Basin has been considered a classic analogue for carbonate and evaporate assemblages. The extent of microbial dolomite in ancient sabkha environments is proposed as an alternative model for dolomite formation, in which the mineral properties of organic substrates play a crucial role.     

豫西下二叠统太原组遗迹化石与古氧相的响应特征*

基于对豫西禹州和焦作地区下二叠统太原组中的遗迹化石组成与产状特征的研究,以及对不同颜色Zoophycos潜穴充填物中碳氧同位素和微量元素含量的测试分析,取得成果如下: (1)灰白色充填物中δ¹³C值较低,主要介于-2‰~-4‰之间;灰色充填物中δ¹³C值大多在-0.8‰~-2‰之间。二者的V/(V+Ni)值均小于0.46,Ce/La值均小于1.5。反映其为富氧相,即氧化环境。(2)红褐色充填物中δ¹³C值一般在-0.2‰~-0.9‰之间,V/(V+Ni)值大于0.46,反映其为贫氧相,即弱还原环境。(3)黑色充填物中δ¹³C值最高,多数在0.2‰~1.6‰之间,Ce/La值大于1.8,反映其为厌氧相,即还原环境。综合分析上述特征,提出了3种古氧相(富氧相、贫氧相和厌氧相)的遗迹化石响应关系及其形成的沉积背景模式。这一研究成果可为精细分析豫西下二叠统太原组碳酸盐岩的沉积环境演变规律提供直观的生物遗迹识别标志。     

Lower Devonian tempestites in western Yangtze,South China: insight from Zoophycos ichnofabrics

A Lower Devonian (Emsian) tempestite in the western Yangtze plate, China, was studied based on ichnological and stratigraphical features. The results indicated that the local tempestite can be grouped into clastic constituent types, which include bottom erosion structures, graded beds, swaley cross‐stratification (SCS), parallel lamination, bioturbation and the new composition Zoophycos ichnofabrics. Five storm sequences and three Zoophycos ichnofabrics (Zoophycos–Chondrites ichnofabric, Zoophycos–Chondrites–Thalassinoides ichnofabric and Zoophycos–Thalassinoides–Palaeophycus ichnofabric) were discerned. It is demonstrated that the Zoophycos‐producers from the complex types of Zoophycos in storm sequences were opportunistic organisms (r‐strategists). This study reveals storm‐generated physical and biogenic structures and textures and provides a good ichnological method to identify storm deposits. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Sedimentology, petrography and geochemistry of a limestone breccia (Pietra di Billiemi) from north-west Sicily, Italy: implications for evolution of the Tethyan basins around the Triassic/Jurassic boundary

In this study, the Pietra di Billiemi , a famous dimension stone, is investigated because it records the tectonic evolution of the south Tethys continental margin and preserves a record of major environmental changes occurring near the Triassic/Jurassic boundary. The Pietra di Billiemi is a grey, coarse-grained and clast-supported limestone breccia cropping out in an area of the Palermo Mountains representing a segment of the Apennine–Maghrebian chain in western Sicily. The rock consists of metre-sized to centimetre-sized angular clasts, derived from Upper Triassic sponge boundstones and rudstones, with a differently coloured, silt-grained matrix. Fitted fragments are observed commonly which suggest an in situ origin for the bulk of the breccia. The matrix is characterized by the absence of biogenic components and by variable mineralogy and geochemistry. Petrographic features and Sr-isotope values indicate that the most important and earliest fillings of the breccia consist of black matrix and white matrix temporally referable to Hettangian–Sinemurian times. Clotted micrite, carbonate fluorapatite and abundant pyrite, in addition to relatively high contents of redox-sensitive elements (V, Ni, Zn and S), are consistent with deposition in anoxic conditions that favoured microbial mediation for authigenic carbonate (calcite and dolomite) precipitation in the matrix. As a whole, the Billiemi breccia can be considered a product of tectonic fragmentation of a Tethyan carbonate platform edge around the Triassic/Jurassic boundary, formed when the drowned platform edge was covered by hemipelagic mudstones recording the anoxic conditions existing during Early Jurassic times.     

豫西地区下二叠统太原组遗迹组构及其沉积环境

豫西下二叠统太原组中发育丰富的遗迹化石,常见有Zoophycos,Taenidium,Thalassinoides,Teichichnus,Gordia,Nereites,Chondrites和Planolites等,部分灰岩层中还发育生物扰动构造。根据遗迹化石的形态、组成、产状、分布特征以及丰度、分异度、生物扰动程度的不同,在研究区太原组碳酸盐岩中共识别出5种遗迹组构,包括类型A--Gordia-Planolites遗迹组构、类型B--Rhizocorallium-Thalassinoides遗迹组构、类型C--Zoophycos-Taenidium遗迹组构、类型D--Zoophycos-Speckle burrow强生物扰动遗迹组构、类型E--Chondrites-Nereites遗迹组构。其中类型C根据Zoophycos在剖面上所展现的各种特征,又可细分为3种类型,即类型C-1,C-2和C-3。通过分析宿主岩的沉积特征,表明太原组碳酸盐岩中的遗迹组构主要分布于潟湖潮坪和台内浅滩(类型A)、正常天气浪基面之上的浅海上部或局限台地(类型B,类型C-1和类型C-2)、正常天气浪基面之下的开阔台地(类型C-3,类型D)和风暴浪基面之下的浅海下部或水动力条件类似的较闭塞的沉积环境中(类型E)。     

Sphalerite-bearing detrital ‘sand’ bodies in Mississippi Valley-type zinc deposits Mascot-Jefferson City district,Tennessee

The Mississippi Valley-type sphalerite mineralization in the Mascot-Jefferson City zinc district of East Tennessee occurs as open-space fillings in breccia bodies within the upper part of the Knox Group (Lower Ordovician) which is truncated by a regional unconformity. A lower age limit of mineralization is constrained by the formation of solution-collapse breccia bodies, which are believed to be related to the post-Knox unconformity. The breccias contain irregularly distributed “sand” bodies that represent cavities filled with well-laminated and size-graded, sphalerite-bearing, detrital, internal sediments. The texture, composition, and fluid inclusion characteristics of the sphalerite, are consistent with its local derivation from the wallrocks as detrital grains. The conformability between the laminations in the sediments and the bedding planes of the host carbonate rocks suggests that the sand bodies formed prior to the regional deformation event (Alleghenian orogeny). The stylolitization of carbonate and sphalerite clasts in the internal sediments as well as the deformation of the sphalerite are also consistent with a pre-Alleghenian age for the emplacement of the main-stage sphalerite mineralization in the Mascot-Jefferson City district and, by analogy, in other Lower Ordovician-hosted Mississippi Valley-type districts of the southern Appalachians.     

Some Promising Avenues of Carbonate Rocks Investigation

Achievements in the study of modern carbonate sediments and ancient sedimentary carbonate rocks, as well as recent data pose new problems and generate a need for the revision of some seemingly unambiguous concepts. The prevalent role of biogenic and, first of all, microbial sedimentation of carbonate (including dolomitic) material and specific nontraditional settings of carbonate accumulation (intermediate and even high latitudes, deep-water basins) becomes more and more evident. The study of the internal structure of carbonate formations and its relationship with specific features of carbonate material deposition, climate, basin depth, and other factors represent a new important problem. The existing concepts of carbonate accumulation evolution need to be revised both from the standpoint of its factual reflection in sedimentary sequences and explanation.     

Processes of carbonate precipitation in modern microbial mats

Microbial mats are ecosystems that arguably greatly affected the conditions of the biosphere on Earth through geological time. These laminated organosedimentary systems, which date back to > 3.4 Ga bp, are characterized by high metabolic rates, and coupled to this, rapid cycling of major elements on very small (mm-µm) scales. The activity of the mat communities has changed Earth's redox conditions (i.e. oxidation state) through oxygen and hydrogen production. Interpretation of fossil microbial mats and their potential role in alteration of the Earth's geochemical environment is challenging because these mats are generally not well preserved.Preservation of microbial mats in the fossil record can be enhanced through carbonate precipitation, resulting in the formation of lithified mats, or microbialites. Several types of microbially-mediated mineralization can be distinguished, including biologically-induced and biologically influenced mineralization. Biologically-induced mineralization results from the interaction between biological activity and the environment. Biologically-influenced mineralization is defined as passive mineralization of organic matter (biogenic or abiogenic in origin), whose properties influence crystal morphology and composition. We propose to use the term organomineralization sensu lato as an umbrella term encompassing biologically influenced and biologically induced mineralization. Key components of organomineralization sensu lato are the “alkalinity” engine (microbial metabolism and environmental conditions impacting the calcium carbonate saturation index) and an organic matrix comprised of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), which may provide a template for carbonate nucleation. Here we review the specific role of microbes and the EPS matrix in various mineralization processes and discuss examples of modern aquatic (freshwater, marine and hypersaline) and terrestrial microbialites.     

鲁西寒武系第三统张夏组附枝菌与附枝菌微生物灰岩特征研究

本文通过大比例尺野外测量及镜下观察,对鲁西寒武系第三统张夏组的附枝菌与附枝菌微生物灰岩特征进行了详细研究。附枝菌是一种树枝状蓝细菌,一般向上生长扩展,形成灌木状附枝菌群落,生长于附枝菌微生物丘内部。而在微生物丘的外部边缘,附枝菌群落呈半闭合的房室状,与肾状菌十分相似。房室状附枝菌群落可能是在微生物丘外部边缘受局部高能微环境（如水流、波浪等）的影响形成的。在其形成后,其保存状态则是由附枝菌的钙化作用及早期成岩作用决定。由于附枝菌构成其微生物岩的生长骨架,且该微生物岩不具备清晰的中型构造,故可称其为附枝菌格架岩,作为对微生物岩分类命名的又一补充。附枝菌格架岩一般生长于台地边缘或台地外部斜坡环境,其生长过程受水动力条件、阳光照射及海水清澈度等影响。     

广西环江凹陷深部岩溶缝洞充填物碳氧同位素特征及古环境意义

深部岩溶是碳酸盐岩地区深部油气资源勘探中不可避免的问题。深部岩溶发育期次的确定是岩溶储层地质的技术难题。广西环江凹陷在页岩气钻井中发现大量深部溶洞且充填物丰富多样,成为深部岩溶发育期次研究的良好素材。文章对HD1-4钻井揭露的深部岩溶缝洞充填物及地表岩溶缝洞充填物进行碳氧同位素分析,揭示出环江地区的4种不同岩溶环境:同生期或准同生期岩溶环境、表生期大气淡水岩溶环境、中浅埋藏岩溶环境、深埋藏或热液岩溶环境,环江地区深部岩溶发育为4期不同岩溶环境叠加的效果,主要受到热液岩溶环境和大气淡水岩溶环境的影响。      

Microbial fossilization in carbonate sediments: a result of the bacterial surface involvement in dolomite precipitation

ABSTRACT Recent dolomitic sediment samples from Lagoa Vermelha, Brazil, were examined microscopically to study the process of bacterial fossilization in carbonate sediments. Bacteria‐like bodies were intimately associated with carbonate mineral surfaces, and coatings on the former demonstrate the calcification of single bacterial cells. The bacterial fossilization process in Lagoa Vermelha sediments was simulated in the laboratory by cultivation of mixed and pure cultures of sulphate‐reducing bacteria, which were isolated from the Lagoa Vermelha sediments. These cultures produced carbonate minerals that were studied to provide insight into the initiation of the fossilization process. In mixed culture experiments, bacterial colonies became calcified, whereas in pure culture experiments, single bacterial cells were associated with dolomite surfaces. Dolomite nucleated exclusively in bacterial colonies, intimately associated with extracellular organic matter and bacterial cells. Electrophoretic mobility measurements of the bacterial cells in electrolyte solutions demonstrated the specific adsorption of Ca²⁺ and Mg²⁺ onto the cell surfaces, indicating the role of the bacterial surface in carbonate nucleation and bacterial fossilization. The affinity of the cells for Mg²⁺ was related to the capability of the strains to mediate dolomite formation. Combined with sulphate uptake, which dissociates the [MgSO₄]⁰ ion pair and increases the Mg²⁺ availability, the concentration of Mg²⁺ ions in the microenvironment around the cells, where the conditions are favourable for dolomite precipitation, may be the key to overcome the kinetic barrier to dolomite formation. These results demonstrate that bacterial fossilization is a consequence of the cell surface involvement in carbonate precipitation, implying that fossilized bacterial bodies can be used as a tool to recognize microbially mediated carbonates.     

湘中下石炭统痕迹化石及其环境分布

湘中下石炭统中发育有非常丰富的痕迹化石，本文报道了在其中鉴别出的１７种痕迹化石，并对其组合特征及环境分布进行分析，划分出Ｆｕｃｏｓｏｐｓｉｓ组合、Ｓｋｏｌｉｔｈｏｓ组合、ｐａｌａｅｏｐｈｙｃｏｓ组合、Ｒｈｉｚｏｃｏｒａｌｌｉｕｍ组合、Ｃｈｏｎｄｒｉｔｅｓ组合等。它们分别与潮坪－湖、障壁砂坝、滨外碎屑陆棚、滨外浅水碳酸盐陆棚及深水碳酸盐陆棚等环境相对应。文中还对区内几种常见的痕迹化石如Ｔｈａｌａｓｓｉｎｏｉｄｅｓ、Ｐｌａｎｏｌｉｔｅｓ、Ｚｏｏｐｈｙｃｏｓ及Ｃｈｏｎｄｒｉｔｅｓ等的环境意义做进一步探讨。     

Biolaminoid facies in a peritidal sabkha: Permian Platy Dolomite of northern Poland

The Platy Dolomite, a carbonate unit in the Zechstein Formation (Upper Permian) of the Leba Elevation, Poland, was deposited in a semi-closed or completely separated back-barrier sabkha environment. This arid, hypersaline zone is comparable to the recent Gavish Sabkha, Sinai. The processes which formed the modern Gavish Sabkha are similar to those responsible for the biolaminoid formation in the Platy Dolomite series. The deposition of this Platy Dolomite was mainly the result of microbial activity building extensive microbial mats. The Platy Dolomite is characterized by loosely packed microbial biolaminoids (a less significantly laminated build-up of biogenetic sediments) with horizontally or obliquely to vertically orientated filaments. Intermediary coated grains occur. Densely packed, flat laminated stromatolitic rocks, pure oolites, and bioclastic sedimentary strata are rarely intercalated with the biolaminoid beds. Laboratory and field investigations indicate that carbonate formation was induced by the chemoorganotrophic bacterial decay of cyanobacterial mats. Magnesium was bound and absorbed by organic matter and later liberated by anaerobic decay. Early diagenetic processes formed Mg²⁺- and Ca²⁺-enriched solutions in which carbonates precipitated biologically and chemically. A system of biogenic carbonate formation of the Platy Dolomite microbiolite series is proposed and supported by the results of microbiological laboratory studies.     

遗迹化石的古环境和古地理意义

遗迹化石(或生物成因沉积构造)是原产地环境条件的指示者,是原地埋藏的遗迹群落,因此几十年前即用来研究古环境和古地理。本文从4个方面讨论了利用遗迹化石群落来解释古代环境和古地理条件：①陆相和海相遗迹化石群落的区别;②海陆过渡带环境的遗迹化石群落和海岸线的识别;③遗迹相的古环境和古地理应用,且讨论了Skolithos(石针迹)、Cruziana(克鲁斯迹)、Zoophycos(动藻迹)和Nereites(类砂蚕迹)四个遗迹相研究的新进展;④利用遗迹化石群落对一些地质事件的解释,包括一些沉积事件的解释以及判断缺氧和贫氧环境。     

Taxonomy and biogenicity of Archaean spheroidal microfossils (ca. 3.0 Ga) from the Mount Goldsworthy–Mount Grant area in the northeastern Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

Microstructures recently reported from an Archaean sedimentary succession (ca. 3.0 Ga) in the Mount Goldsworthy–Mount Grant area in the northeastern Pilbara Craton meet the criteria for compelling evidence of biogenicity [Sugitani, K., Grey, K., Allwood, A., Nagaoka, T., Mimura, K., Minami, M., Marshall, C.P., Van Kranendonk, M.J., Walter, M.R., 2007. Diverse microstructures from Archaean chert from the Mount Goldsworthy–Mount Grant area, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: microfossils, dubiofossil, or pseudofossils. Precambrian Res. 158, 228–262]. The structures are morphologically diverse. Although they were tentatively classified into five major morphological types (thread-like, film-like, small (<15 μm) and large (>15 μm) spheroidal, and spindle-like), the possible taxonomic significance of these groups was not discussed. Building on our earlier analysis, we focus on the morphology of the larger spheroids, as well as presenting further evidence relating spindles and several bizarre forms, and attempt to group them taxonomically and adduce additional evidence for their biogenicity.Taphonomic features were identified in each of the various morphological groups, but the range of morphological diversity of the spheroids cannot be attributed solely to taphonomic alteration. Four subdivisions of spheroids are proposed: (1) simple single-walled spheroids, (2) thin-walled spheroids having a diffuse envelope, (3) thick-walled spheroids, and (4) spheroids having an extensively folded wall. Simple single-walled spheroids, 15–60 μm in diameter, with various wall textures but commonly lacking envelopes or appendages form the dominant subgroup. Other complex morphologies are present and include aligned or associated bodies of thin-walled spheroids with diffuse envelopes, and spindle-like structures containing inner spheroidal bodies. The degree of morphological complexity and associations between structures suggest the presence of reproductive phases. If correct, this implies that the early Earth (ca. 3.0 Ga) showed a higher level of biodiversity than is currently postulated.     

Ultrastructures of stromatolites from the Wenlockian of Chernov Swell

The morphology of fossilized biogenic particles and the elemental composition of biogenic formations, discovered for the first time in Lower Silurian deposits within the Timan–Northern Urals region, are considered. The diversity of biogenic formations identified in stromatolites indicates a high level of activity of microorganisms forming the cyanobacterial mat and confirms the microbial origin of the Wenlockian stromatolite buildups.     

莓状黄铁矿:环境与生命的示踪计

莓状黄铁矿这一奇妙的微晶(0.1~1 μm)矿物集合体(5~50 μm)自科学家首次发现(1923年)和冠名(1935年)至今一直是不同学科竞相研究的热点.主要从莓状黄铁矿的形成机制、莓状黄铁矿与环境的关系等方面回顾了莓状黄铁矿的生物成因说(1923-1969年)、非生物成因说(1969-2000年)和多元成因说(2000-现今)各研究阶段取得的进展和存在的问题,指出莓状黄铁矿作为表层生物圈、深部生物圈和地外环境与生命示踪计具有巨大潜力,提出从地球科学、生命科学、材料科学、化学和纳米科技以及凝聚态物理学融合的角度加强对莓状黄铁矿研究的建议.