First microbialites associated to organic-rich facies of the Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (Northern Tunisia, Cenomanian-Turonian transition)

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作者
Layeb, Mohsen [1 ,2 ]
Fadhel, Moez Ben [2 ]
Layeb-Tounsi, Yosra [3 ]
Youssef, Mohamed Ben [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Tunis, Inst Super Metiers Patrimoine, Tunis 1075, Tunisia
[2] CERTE, Dept Georessources, Soliman 8020, Tunisia
[3] Univ Carthage, Dept Sci Terre, Fac Sci Bizerte, Bizerte 7021, Tunisia
关键词
Northern Tunisia; Cenomanian-Turonian transition; Thrombolites; Stromatolites; Oceanic anoxic event OAE 2; BAHLOUL FORMATION; DEPOSITIONAL MODEL; ANTI-ATLAS; STRATIGRAPHY; BOUNDARY; ISOTOPES; MOUNDS; MATTER; MARGIN; SEEPS;
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10.1007/s12517-013-0988-0
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P [天文学、地球科学];
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07 ;
摘要
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.
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