DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.10.015
论文题名: Microendolithic structures from the Fort Payne Formation (lower Mississippian), Kentucky and Tennessee: Implications for the paleoenvironment of carbonate mud-mounds
作者: Hannon J.S. ; Meyer D.L.
刊名: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
ISSN: 0031-0182
出版年: 2014
卷: 393 起始页码: 20
结束页码: 29
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Carbonate mound
; Illinois Basin
; Microendolith
; Mississippian
; Paleobathymetry
英文摘要: Resin cast embedment and naturally occurring internal molds have revealed an assemblage of microendoliths from the Lower Mississippian Fort Payne Formation. Microendoliths produced by the heterotrophs Orthogonum lineare, Orthogonum giganteum, and Saccomorpha clava dominate this unit, as well as the phototroph-produced traces Ichnoreticulina elegans and Fascichnus dactylus, a chlorophyte (Ostreobium quekettii) and cyanobacterium (Hyella caespitosa), respectively. They were found within a variety of fossil substrates, including solitary corals, bryozoans, brachiopods, and gastropods, with a notable absence in all trilobites and echinoderms. The Fort Payne from the Lake Cumberland/Dale Hollow region of southern Kentucky-northern Tennessee contains a suite of fossiliferous green shale deposits with isolated locations of enigmatic carbonate mud-mounds. The latter, commonly referred to as 'Waulsortian' mounds in other geographical areas, have been the center of much speculation in the past few decades, and the paleoenvironmental parameters behind their formation remain controversial. Using the aforementioned microendoliths, a sense of the light availability within the Illinois Basin can be determined. The assemblage of ichnotaxa uncovered is representative of light conditions spanning from dysphotic to aphotic. Using previously constrained depth parameters that indicate a depth of no more than 100. m, a dysphotic environment suggests that the water column was eutrophic, presumably due to high productivity within the Illinois Basin. This would seem to corroborate several other inferences about the Early Mississippian, including the growing number of suspension feeding echinoderms, the restructuring of phytoplanktonic communities and increased nutrient flux from a developing terrigenous floral weathering regime in the Early Mississippian. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/69494
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作者单位: Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013, United States
Recommended Citation:
Hannon J.S.,Meyer D.L.. Microendolithic structures from the Fort Payne Formation (lower Mississippian), Kentucky and Tennessee: Implications for the paleoenvironment of carbonate mud-mounds[J]. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,2014-01-01,393