Constraining diagenesis within shallow water carbonate environments: Insights from clumped and sulfur isotopes

Smith, Megan E.; Moore, E.; Swart, Peter K.

doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.121183

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“…Samples were taken from those continuous cores at 1–2 m intervals to be used as part of this project (see Couch Jr. et al, 1975 or Saller, 1984b for descriptive logs). Another set of deep wells (KAR‐1, KBZ‐4, OOR‐17, OBZ‐4) were drilled and cored on the northern lagoon margin to depths of 318–489 m and were initially studied by the USGS (Cronin et al, 1986; Henry & Wardlaw, 1987, 1990; Wardlaw, 1986) and were subsequently studied by numerous workers with results published by Quinn (1989), Quinn and Matthews (1990), Quinn (1991a, 1991b), Quinn and Saller (1997), Smith and Swart (2022), Smith et al (in press).…”

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Deep marine diagenesis, offshore Hawaii and Enewetak, with implications for older carbonates

Saller¹,

Winterbottom²

2022

The Depositional Record

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Cenozoic limestones from Hawaii and Enewetak were studied to characterise diagenesis in deep sea water. Hawaii samples were from subsea outcrops of drowned Pleistocene reefs 150-1,505 m deep (maximum age 550-600 ka). Most samples had early fibrous aragonite and high-magnesium calcite cements precipitated in shallow sea water. Partial dissolution of aragonite (including coral) and highmagnesium calcite were significant at 412 m and increased to 1,505 m. Crusts of 'stubby' sparry calcite cement (2-8 mol.% MgCO 3 ; 'lower Mg calcite') precipitated on early aragonite and high-magnesium calcite cements at 473-1,358 m. Dissolution of aragonite and high-magnesium calcite was incomplete. Aragonite and high-magnesium calcite were not neomorphosed to low-magnesium calcite ( <5 mol.% MgCO 3 ). Enewetak well samples came from 3 to 1,400 m (Holocene to Upper Eocene). Lower Miocene to Upper Eocene carbonates at 380-1,380 m near the atoll margin showed pervasive dissolution of aragonite and conversion of high-magnesium calcite fossils to low-magnesium calcite. Their lower-Mg calcite cements (380-820 m; mainly radiaxial) were associated with aragonite dissolution. The lower-Mg calcite cements and bulk limestones below 500 m had geochemistry indicating precipitation or stabilisation in sea water at 10-27°C. Data indicate Enewetak dolomitisation (1,250-1,320 m) in cold sea water during burial >1,000 m. Coralline algae showed little petrographic alteration, but Mg decreased downward from 15 to 1.5 mol.% MgCO 3 . In both areas, aragonite dissolution, alteration of high-magnesium calcite, and precipitation of lower-Mg calcite cements occurred in deep sea water (>300 m) undersaturated for aragonite, but supersaturated for low-magnesium calcite. Original high-magnesium calcite was partially dissolved in Hawaii samples, but converted to low-magnesium calcite in deep Enewetak cores, possibly due to gradual deepening at Enewetak. Dolomitisation and low-magnesium calcite dissolution occurred below the calcite saturation depth (approximately 1,000 m) in Enewetak, but not deep Hawaii samples, possibly because dolomitisation is slower. Temporal variations in carbonate saturation, especially related to pCO 2 , are interpreted as the main control on mineralogy during marine diagenesis now and in many ancient oceans.

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