DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.10.033
论文题名: Cretaceous methane-seep deposits from New Zealand and their fauna
作者: Kiel S. ; Birgel D. ; Campbell K.A. ; Crampton J.S. ; Schiøler P. ; Peckmann J.
刊名: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
ISSN: 0031-0182
出版年: 2013
卷: 390 起始页码: 17
结束页码: 34
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Biogeography
; Cretaceous
; Deep-sea
; Endemism
; Methane seepage
; New Zealand
英文摘要: Six Cretaceous methane-seep deposits are reported from the Raukumara Peninsula, eastern North Island, New Zealand. Dinoflagellate dating indicates a Late Albian to mid-Cenomanian age for three deposits from Port Awanui, and a mid-Campanian age for two deposits from Waipiro Bay and for one from Owhena Stream. The dominant petrographic fabric of the carbonates is detrital micrite, and the numerous fenestrae and vugs are filled with various cements including two types of non-detrital micrite, and botryoidal and banded fibrous calcites. These petrographic features, in combination with negative δ13C values of early diagenetic micrites (as low as -29.2‰ vs. V-PDB) and 13C-depleted molecular fossils such as the archaeal biomarkers pentamethylicosane (-97‰ vs. V-PDB) and biphytane (-99‰), and the bacterial biomarker anteiso-C15 fatty acid (-47‰), reveal that sulfate-dependent anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) induced the formation of these deposits. The carbonates preserve a typical mollusk dominated, Late Mesozoic, deep-water seep fauna including the large modiomorphid bivalve Caspiconcha, the lucinid bivalve Ezolucina, and limpets, hokkaidoconchids and a large abyssochrysoid among the gastropods, with close biogeographic relationships to North Pacific seep faunas of Cretaceous age. In contrast to the general marine mollusk fauna of New Zealand, which shows a high degree of endemism in both the Cenozoic and Recent, New Zealand's Cretaceous to present-day seep faunas consist largely of taxa known from coeval seeps around the world. Thus while deep-water seeps in New Zealand were repeatedly or continuously colonized by members of the global seep fauna, the general mollusk fauna of the New Zealand region developed a considerable degree of endemism during this time. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/69586
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作者单位: Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum, Abteilung Geobiologie and Courant Research Center Geobiology, Goldschmidtstr. 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; Universität Wien, Erdwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Department für Geodynamik und Sedimentologie, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Wien, Austria; Geology Programme, School of Environment, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand; GNS Science, Post Office Box 30368, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Recommended Citation:
Kiel S.,Birgel D.,Campbell K.A.,et al. Cretaceous methane-seep deposits from New Zealand and their fauna[J]. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,2013-01-01,390