Growth history of Lower Mississippian Waulsortian mounds: Distribution, stratal patterns, and geometries, New Mexico

Jeffery, David L.; Stanton, Robert J.

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“…Due to the high concentration of crinoids and fenestrate bryozons, which are typical of cool-water environments (Martindale and Boreen, 1994) and the fragile nature of the fenestrate bryozoans, it is proposed that these mounds developed in deep, quiet, low energy environments in relatively cold water. Bourque et al (1995) suggested that the mounds grew in dysphotic conditions whereas Jeffery and Shanton (1996) interpreted mound growth in New Mexico to be in the dysphotic to euphotic conditions. Jeffery and Shanton (1996) proposed that these mounds were coincident with a probable oxygen minimum zone on the ramp, thus explaining the difference in sedimentation on the mounds and the adjacent sea floor.…”

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“…Bourque et al (1995) suggested that the mounds grew in dysphotic conditions whereas Jeffery and Shanton (1996) interpreted mound growth in New Mexico to be in the dysphotic to euphotic conditions. Jeffery and Shanton (1996) proposed that these mounds were coincident with a probable oxygen minimum zone on the ramp, thus explaining the difference in sedimentation on the mounds and the adjacent sea floor. The oxygen minimum zone and the supply of nutrients to the Waulsortian mounds in New Mexico were interpreted to be caused by the upwelling of cold nutrient rich waters.…”

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“…Jeffery and Shanton (1996) have noted that the initial development of the Waulsortian mounds in New Mexico was located on topographic highs or antecedent topography which provided improved growth conditions. Since the development of the Peace River Embayment was created by the collapse of the Devonian Peace River High (Davies et al, 1989), these fault-bounded blocks may have served as locations of mound nucleation.…”

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“…They are found in northern Europe, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico, Tennessee, Alberta and Texas (Johnson, 1995). For example, Jeffery and Shanton (1996) in studying these build-ups in New Mexico, suggested that accommodation, light, and oxygen and nutrient supply; particularly by the mechanism of upwelling bottom waters were important for the mound organisms. The main control on localization of mound growth was either structural or topographic highs.…”

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Waulsortian-like mounds of the Mississippian Pekisko Formation, Northwestern Alberta: Petrographic and chemical attributes

Al‐Aasm¹,

Vernon²

2007

Marine and Petroleum Geology

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Waulsortian-like mounds of the Mississippian Pekisko Formation, Northwestern Alberta: Petrographic and chemical attributes

Al‐Aasm¹,

Vernon²

2007

Marine and Petroleum Geology

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“…Massive bioconstructions in most large Waulsortian banks were favoured by upwelling currents on the margin of outer ramps, and the same is true for some large late Viséan mounds (Jeffery & Stanton, ). However, the microbial communities of the Montagne Noire: (i) did not form such large buildups; (ii) are composed of more photic components (even the laterally‐accreted mounds) and appear to have developed in shallower water settings from their bases; and (iii) are associated with even shallower water settings in the stratiform beds of the Roc de Murviel Formation.…”

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Environmental controls on the development of Mississippian microbial carbonate mounds and platform limestones in southern Montagne Noire (France)

Cózar

Izart²,

Somerville

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Sedimentology

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Late Mississippian carbonates in southern Montagne Noire are dominantly domical to laterally‐accreted microbial mounds in some formations, as well as stratiform microbial limestones occurring in hundreds of olistoliths within a flysch basin, constituting pieces of a giant puzzle that are used to help reconstruct a platform in a region that is no longer preserved. Petrographic data of limestone samples from 14 continuous long sections of olistoliths have been analyzed statistically, using multivariate clustering (Q‐mode) of the components/matrix/cement and canonical correspondence analysis that allow the reconstruction of the environmental parameters of carbonate microbial communities in space and time. Clustering analysis separated microbial and non‐microbial facies. The calculation of indices along the various axes from canonical correspondence analysis allows recognition of the controlling factors of the mounds and microbial growth as being turbidity, light penetration, bathymetry and storms. Turbidity and light penetration are the primary factors controlling the morphology of the microbial limestones. Representation of the light penetration and bathymetry indices on the stratigraphical sections defines two vertical environmental gradients. Light penetration can be subdivided into euphotic, euphotic–dysphotic and dysphotic‐aphotic conditions. The representation of the bathymetry allows the subdivision of samples into a deeper outer ramp, external mid‐ramp and internal mid‐ramp. The curve distance from the section base = f (index) suggests a cyclicity for the platform that cannot be compared with the onlap curve defined from other cratonic areas (Moscow Basin), and thus the cyclic succession of the Montagne Noire is interpreted to have been mostly tectonically‐controlled. Integration of the data allowed the reconstruction of the original Mississippian carbonate platform, where, up to the Mikhailovian, it appears to correspond to a platform morphology, with narrow shallow water facies and wide turbiditic systems, whereas the width of shallow‐water settings expanded during the Venevian to the Protvian, forming a ramp or distally‐steepened ramp with widespread microbial limestones.

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A Late Carboniferous algal mound from the Tarim Basin, NW China: internal structure and palaeoecology

Chen

2012

Geological Journal

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A Beresella‐dominated algal mound and its internal construction from Paojianggou, southwestern Tarim Basin, NW China are studied for the first time. This algal mound was constructed during the early–middle late Moscovian and its age is constrained by fusulinids of the Fusulina kamensis and F. quasicylindrica zones of middle Pennsylvanian age. The mound substrate beds are composed of crinoid and brachiopod grainstones. Crinoid bank and brachiopod‐dominated skeletal shoals indicate a high‐energy environment and produced a local topographic high on which the mound grew. Komia bafflestone of the foremound facies further increased the relief of the crinoid bank on the seafloor. The lower part of the mound framework is dominated by Shamovella–Archaeolithoporella boundstone, while the main (upper) mound framework consists predominantly of Beresella boundstone. Grainstone–packstone characterizes the windward mound flank facies. The mound capping facies include a lower skeletal packstone–wackestone and an upper lagoon facies marlstone and black shale. Various algal colonies performed different roles in the formation of the mound. Komia colonies were the mound constructors that baffled higher energy currents and entrapped fine sediment. Archaeolithoporella, Shamovella and possibly microbes (cyanobacteria) acted as the binders to stabilize mud and fine‐grained sediment. Beresella colonies were the major framework constructors whose network entrapped the mud to build the mound. The growth of the Paojianggou mound in the Tarim Basin has undergone three major algal colonization stages: Komia baffling, laminar Archaeolithoporella and Shamovella encrusting and binding, and Beresella binding and stabilizing. The Paojianggou mound developed in a protected lagoonal position behind the shoals and grew during a short rise in sea level followed by a long‐period sea‐level fall. Its demise was caused by terrigenous siliciclastic input due to regional tectonic uplifting in the Tarim Basin during the latest Moscovian time. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Growth history of Lower Mississippian Waulsortian mounds: Distribution, stratal patterns, and geometries, New Mexico

Cited by 23 publications

References 28 publications

Waulsortian-like mounds of the Mississippian Pekisko Formation, Northwestern Alberta: Petrographic and chemical attributes

Waulsortian-like mounds of the Mississippian Pekisko Formation, Northwestern Alberta: Petrographic and chemical attributes

Environmental controls on the development of Mississippian microbial carbonate mounds and platform limestones in southern Montagne Noire (France)

A Late Carboniferous algal mound from the Tarim Basin, NW China: internal structure and palaeoecology

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