Role of calcimicrobes and microbial carbonates in the Late Carboniferous (Moscovian) mounds in southern Guizhou, South China

Huang, Wentao; Zhou, Yongli; Guan, Changqing; Miao, Zhuowei; Chen, Xiaohong; Yang, Zhen-Yuan; Li, Xiao; Gong, Enpu

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“…2 Geological map of the Houchang area (Ziyun, Guizhou), showing locations of measured sections 1 and 2. On the right side are closer maps showing the paths of the two sections, with the bases of the measured sections are in A, and the tops of the sections in B Table 1 A synthesis of bioconstructions, reported around the Houchang town Microbial mounds: Huang et al (2019); Sponge reefs: Tan (1991), Yao and Wang (2016); Phylloid algal reefs: Gong et al (2007a, b); Tubiphytes reefs: Chang et al (2008), Guan et al (2010), Yao and Wang (2016); Mud mound: Chang et al (2008), Gong et al (2012); Coral reef: Zhang et al (2010), Gong et al (2012) Microbial mounds (Guan et al 2010), which might represent calcimicrobes during this time (Flügel 2010;Yao and Wang 2016). These reefs were interpreted to have grown at a shallow platform margin (Yao and Wang 2016).…”

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“…Late Pennsylvanian bioconstructions include microbial mounds (Huang et al 2019 ), sponge reefs (Tan 1991 ; Yao and Wang 2016 ), phylloid algal reefs (Gong et al 2007a , b ), Tubiphytes reefs (Chang et al 2008 ; Guan et al 2010 ; Yao and Wang 2016 ), a small mud mound (Chang et al 2008 ; Gong et al 2012 ) and a large coral reef (Zhang et al 2010 ; Gong et al 2012 ). All of these bioconstructions were roughly interpreted as growing at the platform margin (Table 1 ), but the sedimentary context was not constrained.…”

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“… Microbial mounds: Huang et al ( 2019 ); Sponge reefs: Tan ( 1991 ), Yao and Wang ( 2016 ); Phylloid algal reefs: Gong et al ( 2007a , b ); Tubiphytes reefs: Chang et al ( 2008 ), Guan et al ( 2010 ), Yao and Wang ( 2016 ); Mud mound: Chang et al ( 2008 ), Gong et al ( 2012 ); Coral reef: Zhang et al ( 2010 ), Gong et al ( 2012 ) …”

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“…The Late Moscovian microbial mounds (Zhongxinzhai and Lumazhai villages, Houchang), measuring 30–200 m wide and 15–19 m thick, are composed of microbial boundstone characterized by stromatolitic structures, irregular oncoid-like forms and wrinkle structures (unknown microbes). Microbial boundstone co-existed with tube-shaped algae, crinoids, bryozoans, brachiopods, corals ( Ivanovia , not to be confused with the synonymous phylloid alga common in Pennsylvanian deposits), chaetetids, phylloid algae, and numerous calcimicrobes including Girvanella , Ortonella , Wetheredella -like, Palaeomicrocodium -like, and some problematic calcimicrobes (Huang et al 2019 ). The microbial mounds might have formed in the euphotic zone, with shallow-water, normal salinity, and under relatively high-energy conditions (Huang et al 2019 ).…”

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“…b Laminar (white arrow) and grid-shaped (black arrow) microbial microfabrics. FromHuang et al (2019)…”

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Late Pennsylvanian carbonate platform facies and coral reef: new insights from southern China (Guizhou Province)

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The Pennsylvanian is characterized by intense paleoenvironmental changes related to glacio-eustatic sea-level fluctuations and major tectonic events, which affected the evolution of biocommunities. Most known Pennsylvanian tropical reefs and mounds are predominantly composed of calcareous algae (e.g. phylloid algae, Archaeolithophyllum), calcareous sponges, fenestrate bryozoans, Tubiphytes, and microbialites. However, in Houchang (southern China), the Late Pennsylvanian carbonate platform records a large coral reef lacking any analogs in age (Gzhelian), size (80–100 m thick) and composition (high biodiversity). The large coral reef developed at the border of the Luodian intraplatform basin. The intraplatform basin is characterized by the deposition of green algal grainstone, coated grain grainstone and bioclastic packstone, grainstone, floatstone and rudstone in shallow-waters. In the deep-water shelf, lithofacies are composed of burrowed bioclastic wackestone, microbioclastic peloidal packstone, grainstone, and fine-grained burrowed wackestone and packstone. In this context, the coral reef developed on a deep-shelf margin, in a moderate to low energy depositional environment, below the FWWB. The scarcity of Pennsylvanian coral reefs suggests global unfavorable conditions, which can be attributed to a complex pattern of several environmental factors, including seawater chemistry (aragonite seas), paleoclimatic cooling related to continental glaciation, and the biological competition with the more opportunistic and adaptive phylloid algal community that occupied similar platform margin paleoenvironments. The existence of the large Bianping coral reef in southern China, as well as a few additional examples of Pennsylvanian coralliferous bioconstructions, provides evidence that coral communities were able to endure the Late Paleozoic fluctuating paleoenvironmental conditions in specific settings. One of such settings appears to have been the deep shelf margin, where low light levels decreased competition with the phylloid algal community.

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Controlling of the Late Palaeozoic glaciation on reef evolution: A case study of a late Kasimovian coral reef in southern Guizhou, South China

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A late Kasimovian (Pennsylvanian) coral reef is reported in the Yanbanzhai (YBZ) area, southern Guizhou Province, South China. The YBZ coral reef, with a thickness of approximately 5.5 m and a lateral exposure of nearly 50 m, is primarily composed of the colonial rugose coral Fomichevella. The fusulinids collected from the reef indicates a late Kasimovian age. Five microfacies types have been identified, including coated bioclastic grainstone, coral (Fomichevella) framestone, bioclastic wackestone, bioclastic grainstone, and peloidal grainstone. The vertical evolution of the microfacies in the YBZ coral reef indicates major sedimentary environmental changes associated with relative sea-level changes. The growth of the reef-builder Fomichevella was controlled by the transgression and regression. Deep water promoted the upward expansion of Fomichevella, while shallow water inhibited its growth. Published records of atmospheric pCO 2 estimation and sea-surface temperatures, combined with geochemical proxies, confirm a warm climatic period during the late Kasimovian. This is an interglacial period conducive to the growth of the coral reef. Sea-level and climate changes associated with the Late Palaeozoic ice age (LPIA) are interpreted as significant controls of the development of the YBZ coral reef. This research of the YBZ coral reef in South China provides practical palaeobiological evidence for global sea-level rising during the late Kasimovian period caused by the highlatitude Gondwana delaciation.

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Late Moscovian phylloid algal-microbial mounds from Wadi Araba, north Eastern Desert, Egypt: a new construction model and paleogeographic distribution

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2021

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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Role of calcimicrobes and microbial carbonates in the Late Carboniferous (Moscovian) mounds in southern Guizhou, South China

Cited by 9 publications

References 39 publications

Late Pennsylvanian carbonate platform facies and coral reef: new insights from southern China (Guizhou Province)

Late Pennsylvanian carbonate platform facies and coral reef: new insights from southern China (Guizhou Province)

Controlling of the Late Palaeozoic glaciation on reef evolution: A case study of a late Kasimovian coral reef in southern Guizhou, South China

Late Moscovian phylloid algal-microbial mounds from Wadi Araba, north Eastern Desert, Egypt: a new construction model and paleogeographic distribution

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