中元古代微指状叠层石: 超微组构和有机矿化过程
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本文为国家科技部“973”项目(编号 2011CB808806)及国家自然科学基金资助项目(编号 40972022, 40921062)的成果。


Mesoproterozoic Microdigitate Stromatolites: Ultra fabrics and Organomineralization Ultra fabrics and Organomineralization
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    微指状叠层石(microdigitate stromatolites, 以下简称MDS)是新太古代—中元古代一种重要的沉积构造。由于其内部以纤维状组构为重要特征,而缺乏直接的微生物化石证据,被认为代表特定海洋化学条件下形成的一种海底碳酸盐沉淀,属无机成因。本文对华北中元古代雾迷山组硅化MDS的显微组构研究发现,其柱体由亚毫米级浅色微亮晶纹层(平均厚约65μm)和暗色微晶纹层(平均厚约680μm)交互叠加而成。前者含较少细菌残余,重结晶显著;后者富含细菌残余、微晶多面体及微球粒,并进一步分为具密集连续次级微纹层的(平均厚约380μm)和具稀疏断续微纹层的(平均厚约300μm)两种暗纹层。这三种纹层在纵向上的规律性交互可能反映了季节性变化。毛发状垂向纤维贯穿于整个柱体,但在亮纹层内稀疏。这种纤维可能由垂向生长的丝状菌束(宽<10μm)矿化而成,有些由微球粒(粒径为10~30μm)定向富集构成。微球粒富含细菌残余、胞外聚合物(EPS)以及与之密切共生的纳米颗粒(粒径<45nm)。纳米颗粒可粘结形成亚μm级多面体,构成碳酸盐晶体生长的基点。包围微球粒的微亮晶环边和纤维组构间的微亮晶条带内少细菌残余,可能属微生物影响的矿化成因,而纤维体和微球粒则是微生物诱发矿化的结果。故中元古代MDS属微生物成因,它所展现的有机矿化过程可能也适用于更古老的叠层石。此外,MDS内有机矿物从纳米颗粒到微球粒的有序聚合可能代表了有机矿化的普遍过程,并可用作判定微生物成因碳酸盐岩的重要标识。

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    Microdigitate stromatolites (MDS), a kind of important sedimentary structures in the Neoarchean to Mesoproterozoic carbonates, have long been explained as the products of sea floor precipitates and are of abiogenic origin, for their prominent fibrous fabrics in interior but without recognizable microbial fossils. In this study microscope, FESEM and EDS were used to characterize the microfabrics at micron to nanometer scales in the Mesoproterozoic silicified MDS from the North China Platform. The study shows that the MDS microscopically consist of alternating light and dark laminae of sub millimeter scale. The light micro sparitic laminae, about 65μm in average thickness, contain fewer of bacterial relics, and have suffered obvious recrystallization during early diagenesis; whereas the dark micritic laminae are rich in bacterial relics, sub oval clumps or micropeloids of 10~50μm in diameter, which are often encased variably by micro sparitic rims of 2~10μm wide. The dark micritic laminae include two types: the D1 laminae (about 380μm thick) are characterized by having vertically denser and transversely continuous sub laminae (about 15μm thick), and the D2 laminae (about 300μm thick) are developed with sparser and discontinuous sub laminae. Hairy suberect fibers can be observed throughout the MDS columns, but less clear in the light laminae than in the dark ones. The fibers may have resulted either from mineralized bacterial filament bundles with suberect growth pattern or from concentrated micropeloids that are aligned vertically to the laminae. The micropeloids are made up of numerous polyhedrons interwoven with bacteria filaments and EPS with which abundant nanoparticles (<45nm in size usually) are closely associated. The nanoparticles tend to coalescence into submicron scaled polyhedrons that may have functioned as seeds for subsequent crystal growth (i.e., carbonate nucleation), and the polyhedrons in turn, with bacterial filament relics, further aggregate into micropeloids. The micro sparitic rims encasing the micropeloids and the micro sparitic strips at sides of the fibers contain rarely bacterial relics, and are likely formed through microbially influenced precipitation, while the micritic fibers and micropeloids are likely from microbially induced precipitation. Thus, the widespread MDS in the Mesoproterozoic carbonates of North China should be biogenic origin. Furthermore, the organomineralization mechanism revealed in the MDS may shed light to the genetic explanation of even older stromatolites, and the ordered assembly of organominerals from nanoparticles to micropeloids in the MDS may also exist in other microbialites, which may potentially be used as biosignatures for the recognition of biogenic carbonates.

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汤冬杰,史晓颖,蒋干清,张文浩.2012.中元古代微指状叠层石: 超微组构和有机矿化过程[J].地质论评,58(6):1001-1016,[DOI].
.2012. Mesoproterozoic Microdigitate Stromatolites: Ultra fabrics and Organomineralization Ultra fabrics and Organomineralization[J]. Geological Review,58(6):1001-1016.

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