Primary siliceous rhizoliths from loop road hot springs, North Island, New Zealand

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 115-123

  Jones, Brian ^a   Renaut, Robin W ^a   Rosen, Michael R ^a   Klyen, L E W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOT SPRINGS; ROADS AND STREETS; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS); TISSUE;

FILAMENTOUS MICROBES; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; NEW ZEALAND; PLANT TISSUES; RHIZOLITH; SILICA PRECIPITATION;

SILICA;

DIATOMITE; HOT SPRING; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; RHIZOLITH; SILICA; ZHIZOCRETION; ZHOZOCRETION;

NEW ZEALAND, NORTH ISLAND, LOOP ROAD SPRINGS;

EID: 0031838560     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/D4268720-2B26-11D7-8648000102C1865D     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. AKAHANE, H., AND Fmoxo, T., 1993, Recent silicified woods in the Tateyama hot spring (Shinyu), Toyama Prefecture: Geological Society of Japan, Journal (Chishitsugaku Zasshi), v. 99, p. 457-166.
2. BOWX, T.M., 19S2, Ichnofossils and rhizoliths of the nearshore fluvial Jebel Qatrani Formation (Oligocène), Fayum Province, Egypt: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 40, p. 255-309.
3. BOWX, T.M., KRAUS, MJ., WL\C, S.L., FLEACLE, J.G., TIFFNEY, B.H., SIMONS, E.L., AND VONDRA, CF., 1982, The Fayum primate forest revisited: Journal of Human Evolution, v. 11, p. 603-632.
4. BROCK, T.D., 1978, Thermophilic Microorganisms and Life at High Temperatures: New York, Springer-Verlag, 465 p.
5. CALVET, F., POMAR, L., AND ESTEBAN, M., 1975, Las rhizocreciones del Pleistoceno de Mallorca: Diputaciôn Provincial de Barcelona, Instituto de Investigaciones Geolôgicas, Revista, v. 30, p. 35-60.
6. CASSIE, V., AND COOPER, R.C., 19S9, Algae of New Zealand thermal areas: Bibliotheca Phycologica, v. 78, p. 1-160.
7. CROFT, W.N., AND GEORGE, E.A., 1959, Blue-green algae from the Middle Devonian of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire: British Museum (Natural History), Bulletin, Geology, v. 3, p. 339-353.
8. EDWARDS, D.S., 1983, Algae from the Rhynie Chert: Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 86, p. 37-55.
9. EDWARDS, D.S., 1986, Aglaophyton major, a non-vascular land-plant from the Devonian Rhynie Chert: Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 93, p. 173-204.
10. FOURXIER, R.O., 1985, The behavior of silica in hydrothermal solutions, in Berger, B.R., and Bethke, P.M., eds., Geology and Geochemistry of Epithermal Systems: Society of Economic Geologists, Reviews in Economic Geology, v. 2, p. 45-61.
11. GLEXNIE, K.W., AND EVAMY, B.D., 1961, Dikata: plants and plant root structures associated with aeolian sand: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 4, p. 77-87.
12. HIXMAN, N.W., AND LIXDSTROM, R.F., 1996, Seasonal changes in silica deposition in hot spring systems: Chemical Geology, v. 132, p. 237-246.
13. JONES, B., AND No, K.C., 1988, The structure and diagenesis of rhizoliths from Cayman Brae, British West Indies: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 58, p. 457-467.
14. JONES, B., RENAIT, R.W., AND ROSEN, M.R., 1997a, Biogenicity of silica precipitation around geysers and hot-spring vents, North Island, New Zealand: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. A67, p. 88-104.
15. JONES, B., ROSEN, M.R., AXD REXAUT, R.W., 1997b, Silica-cemented freshwater beachrock from Lake Taupo, North Island, New Zealand: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. A67, p. 805-814.
16. KIDSTON, R., AND LANG, W.H., 1921, On Old Red Sandstone plants showing structure from the Rhynie Chert bed, Aberdeenshire. Part V. The Thallophyta occurring in the peat-bed: the succession of the plants throughout a vertical section of the bed, and the accumulation and preservation of the deposit: Royal Society of Edinburgh, Transactions, v. 52, p. 855-902.
17. KLAPPA, C.F., 1979, Calcified filaments in Quaternary calcretes: organo-mineral interactions in the subaerial vadose environment: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 49, p. 955-968.
18. KLAPPA, C.F., 1980, Rhizoliths in terrestrial carbonates: classification, recognition, genesis and significance: Sedimentology, v. 27, p. 613-627.
19. KNOLL, A.H., 1985, Exceptional preservation of photosynthetic organisms in silicified carbonates and silicified peats: Royal Society [London], Philosophical Transactions, ser. B, v. 311, p. 111-122.
20. LEO, R.F., AND BARCHOORN, E.S., 1976, Silicification of wood: Harvard University, Botanical Museum Leaflets, v. 25, p. 1-47.
21. LLOYD, E.F., 1972, Geology and hot springs of Orakeikorako: New Zealand Geological Survey, Bulletin 85, 164 p.
22. LYON, A.G., 1957, Germinating spores in the Rhynie Chert: Nature, v. 180, p. 1219.
23. MACKIE, W, 1913, The rock series of Craigberg and Ord Hill, Rhynie, Aberdeenshire: Edinburgh Geological Society, Transactions, v. 10, p. 205-236.
24. MOUNT, J.F., AND COHEN, A.S., 1984, Petrology and geochemistry of rhizoliths from PlioPleistocene fluvial and marginal lacustrine deposits, East Lake Turkana, Kenya: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 54, p. 263-275.
25. RENALT, R.W., AND OWEN, R.B., 1988, Opaline cherts associated with sublacustrine hydrothermal springs at Lake Bogoria, Kenya Rift Valley: Geology, v. 16, p. 699-702.
26. RENAIT, R.W., JONES, B., AND ROSEN, M.R., 1996, Primary silica oncoids from Orakeikorako hot springs, North Island, New Zealand: PALAIOS, v. 11, p. 446-458.
27. RENAIT, R.W., TIERCEUN, J.J., AND 0tN, R.B., 1986, Mineral precipitation and diagenesis in the sediments of the Lake Bogoria basin, Kenya Rift Valley, in Frostick, L.E., Renaut, R.W., Reid, I, and Tiercelin, J.J., eds., Sedimentation in the African Rifts: Geological Society of London, Special Publication 25, p. 159-175.
28. RICE, C.M., AND TREWIN, N.H., 1988, A Lower Devonian gold-bearing hot-spring system, Rhy-nie, Scotland: Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Transactions (Section B: Applied Earth Sciences), v. 97, p. 141-144.
29. RLMSTIDT, J.D., AND COLE, R.R., 1983, Geothermal mineralization I: The mechanism of formation of ihe Beowawe, Nevada, siliceous sinter deposit: American Journal of Science, v. 283, p. 861-875.
30. RINEHART, J.S., 1980, Geysers and Geothermal Energy: New York, Springer-Verlag, 223 p.
31. SHERMAN, C.D., AND IKAWA, H., 1958, Calcareous concretions and sheets in soils near South Point, Hawaii: Pacific Science, v. 12, p. 255-257.
32. TREWIX, N.H., 1994, Depositional environment and preservation of biota in the Lower Devonian hot-springs of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland: Royal Society of Edinburgh, Transactions, Earth Sciences, v. 84, p. 433-442.
33. TREMN, N.H., 1996, The Rhynie cherts: an early Devonian ecosystem preserved by hydrothermal activity, in Bock, G.R., and Goode, J.A., eds., Evolution of Hydrothermal Ecosystems on Earth (and Mars?): Chichester, U.K., Wiley, p. 131-149.
34. TREWIN, N.H., AND RICE, C.M., 1992, Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Devonian Rhynie Chert locality: Scottish Journal of Geology, v. 28, p. 37-47.
35. VALETON, I, 1971, Tubular fossils in the bauxites and the underlying sediments of Surinam and Guyana: Geologie en Mijnbouw, v. 50, p. 733-741.
36. WALTER, M.R., DESNURAIS, D., FARMER, J.D., AND HLNMAX, N.W., 1996, Lithofacies and biofacies of Mid-Paleozoic thermal spring deposits in the Drummond Basin, Queensland, Australia: PALAIOS, v. 11, p. 497-518.
37. WARD, W.C., 1970, Diagenesis of Quaternary eolianites of N.E. Quintana Roo, Mexico [unpublished Ph.D. thesis]: Houston, Texas, Rice University, 206 p.
38. WHITE, D.E., BRANNOCK, W.W., AND MURATA, K.J., 1956, Silica in hot-spring waters: Geochimica el Cosmochirnica Acta, v. 10, p. 27-59.
39. WHITE, D.E., HLTCHLNSON, R.A., AND KEITH, T.E.C., 1988, The geology and remarkable thermal activity of Noms Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 1456, 84 p.
40. WHITE, N.C., WOOD, D.G., AND LEE, M.C., 1989, Epithermal sinters of Paleozoic age in North Queensland: Geology, v. 17, p. 718-722.