Signatures of hydrocarbon venting in a Middle Devonian Carbonate Mound (Hollard Mound) at the Hamar Laghdad (Antiatlas, Morocco)

Facies

Volumn , Issue 40, 1999, Pages 281-296

  Peckmann, Jörn ^a   Walliser, Otto Heinrich ^a   Riegel, Walter ^a   Reitner, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemosynthesis; Hamar laghdad (Morocco); Hydrocarbon derived carbonates; Middle devonian; Vents

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE SEDIMENT; DEVONIAN; HYDROCARBON; MUD MOUND; VENTING;

ATLAS MOUNTAINS; HAMAR LAGHDAD; MOROCCO;

ACRITARCHA; BIVALVIA; ENTOVALVA; PRASINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0033057644     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02537477     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. ARP, A.J. & CHILDRESS, J.J. (1981): Blood function in the hydrothermal vent vestimentiferan tube worm.-Science, 213, 342-344, Washington D.C.
2. BARRY, J.P., GREENE, H.G., ORANGE, D.L., BAXTER, C.H., ROBISON, B.H., KOCHEVAR, R.D., NYBAKKEN, J.W., REED, D.L. & MCHUCH, C.M. (1996): Biologic and geologic characteristics of cold seeps in Monterey Bay, California.-Deep Sea Research, 43, 1739-1762, Oxford
3. BATHURST, R.G.C. (1980): Stromatactis-Origin related to submarine-cemented crusts in Paleozoic mud mounds.-Geology, 8, 131-134, Boulder
4. BEAUCHAMP, B., KROUSE, H.R., HARRISON, J.C., NASSICHUK, W.W. & ELIUK, L.S. (1989): Cretaceous cold seep communities and methane-derived carbonates in the Canadian Arctic.-Science, 244, 53-56, Washington D.C.
5. BEAUCHAMP, B. & SAVARD, M. (1992): Cretaceous chemosynthetic carbonate mounds in the Canadian Arctic.-Palaios, 7, 434-450, Tulsa
6. BECHSTÄDT, T. (1974): Sind Stromatactis und radiaxial-fibröser . Calcit Faziesindikatoren?-N. Jb. Geol. Paläontol. Mh., 1974, 643-663, Stuttgart
7. BELKA, Z. (1994): Carbonate mud buildups in the Devonian of the central Sahara: evidences for submarine hydrothermal venting.-Przeglad Geologiczny, 42, 341-346, Warszawa
8. -(1995): Devonian mud mounds in North Africa related to submarine hydrothermal venting.-In: KURZE, M. (ed.): Sediment '95, 10. Sedimentologentreffen, Kurzfassungen der Vorträge und Poster. - 13-14, Freiberg
9. -(1997): The origin of the Early Devonian Kess-Kess mud mounds of the eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco): Evidence for submarine venting of methane-rich fluids.-In: CAMOIN, G. & ARNAUD-VANNEAU, A. (eds.): Microbial Mediation in Carbonate Diagenesis, Abstract Book, 5-6, Chichilianne
10. -(1998a): The origin of the Early Devonian Kess-Kess mud mounds of the eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco): Evidence for submarine venting of methane-rich fluids.-In: DE MOL, B. (ed.): Geoshere-bioshere coupling: Carbonate Mud Mounds and Cold Water Reefs. - UNESCO Workshop Report, 143, 17-18, Gent
11. -(1998b): Early Devonian Kess-Kess carbonate mud mounds of the eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco), and their relation to submarine hydrothermal venting.-J. Sed. Research, 68, 368-377, Tulsa
12. BITTER, P.H. VON, SCOTT, S.D. & SCHENK, P.E. (1990): Early Carboniferous low-temperature hydrothermal vent communities from Newfoundland.-Nature, 344, 145-148, London
13. BITTER, P.H. VON, SCOTT, S.D. & SCHENK, P.E. (1992): Chemosynthesis: An alternate hypothesis for carboniferous biotas in Bryozoan/ Microbial Mounds, Newfoundland, Canada.-Palaios, 7, 466-484, Tulsa
14. BRACHERT, T.C., BUGGISCH, W., FLÜGEL, E., HÜSSNER, H.M., JOACHIMSKI, M.M., TOURNEUR, F. & WALLISER, O.H. (1992): Controls of mud mound formation: the Early Devonian Kess-Kess carbonates of the Hamar Laghdad, Antiatlas, Morocco.-Geol. Rundschau, 81, 15-44, Stuttgart
15. CAMPBELL, K. A. (1992): Recognition of a Mio-Pliocene cold seep setting from the northeast Pacific convergent Margin, Washington, U.S.A..-Palaios, 7, 422-433, Tulsa
16. CAMPBELL, K.A. & BOTTJER, D.J. (1995): Brachiopods and chemosymbiotic bivalves in Phanerozoic hydrothermal vent and cold seep environments.-Geology, 23, 321-324, Boulder
17. CAMPBELL, K. A., CARSON, C. & BOTTJER, D.J. (1993b): Fossil cold seep limestones and associated chemosynthetic macroinvertebrate faunas, Jurassic-Cretaceous Great Valley Group, California.-In: GRAHAM, S.A., LOWE, D.R., (eds).: Advances in the Sedimentary Geology of the Great Valley Group, Sacramento Valley, California.-Soc. Econ. Paleontol. Mineral., Pacific Section, Book 73, 37-50, Tulsa
18. CAVANAUGH, C.M. (1983): Symbiotic chemoautotrophic bacteria in marine invertebrates from sulfide-rich habitats.-Nature, 302, 58-61, London
19. CAVANAUGH, C.M., LEVERING, R.R., MAKI, J.S., MITCHELL & R. LIDSTROM, M.E. (1987): Symbiosis of methylotrophic bacteria and deep-sea mussels.-Nature, 325, 346-348, London
20. CHILDRESS, J.J., FISHER, C.R., BROOKS, J.M., KENNICUTT, M.C., BIDIGARE, R. & ANDERSON, A.E. (1986): A methanotrophic marine molluscan (Bivalvia, Mytilidae) symbiosis: Mussels fueled by gas.-Science, 233, 1306-1308, Washington D.C.
21. CLARI, P., FORNARA, L., RICCI, B. & ZUPPI, G.M. (1994): Methane-derived carbonates and chemosymbiotic communities of Piedmont (Miocene, northern Italy): An update.-Geo-Marine Letters, 14, 201-209, Berlin
22. COLLINS, M.J., BISHOP, A.N. & FARRIMOND, P. (1995): Sorption by mineral surfaces: Rebirth of the classical condensation pathway for kerogen formation?-Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 59, 2387-2391, Oxford
23. CORLISS, J.B., DYMOND, J., GORDON, L.I., EDMOND, R.P., VON HERZEN, R.P., BALLARD, R.D., GREEN, K., WILLIAMS, D., BAINBRIDGE, A., CRANE, K. & VAN HANDEL, T.H. (1979): Submarine thermal springs on the Galapagos Rift.-Science, 203: 1073-1083, Washington D.C.
24. DANDO, P.R., AUSTEN, M.C., BURKE, R.A., KENDALL, M.A., KENNICUTT, M.C. II, JUDD, A.C., MOORE, D.C., SCHMALJOHANN, R. & SOUTHWARD, A.J. (1991): Ecology of a North Sea pockmark with an active methane seep.-Marine Ecology Progress Series, 70, 49-63, Halstenbek
25. FELBECK, H., CHILDRESS, J.J. & SOMERO, G.N. (1981): Calvin-Benson cycle and sulphide oxidation enzymes in animals from sulphide rich habitats.-Nature, 293, 291-293, London
26. FISHER, C.S. (1990): Chemoautotrophic and methanotrophic symbiosis in marine invertebrates.-Reviews in Aquatic Sciences, 2, 399-436
27. FRIEDMAN, G.M. (1991): Methane-generated lithified dolostone of Holocene Age: Eastern Mediterranean.-J. Sed. Petrol., 61, 188-194, Tulsa
28. GAILLARD, C., RIO, M. & ROLIN, Y. (1992): Fossil chemosynthetic communities related to vents or seeps in sedimentary basins: the pseudobioherms of southeastern France compared to other world examples.-Palaios, 7, 451-465, Tulsa
29. GOEDERT, J.L. & SQUIRES, R.L. (1990): Eocene deep-sea communities in localized limestones formed by subduction-related methane seeps, southwestern Washington.-Geology, 18, 1182-1185, Boulder
30. HABIB, D., & KNAPP, S.D. (1982): Stratigraphic utility of Cretaceous small acritarchs.-Micropaleontology, 28, 335-371, New York
31. HOLLARD, H. (1967): Maroc el du Sahara nord-occidental.-In: OSWALD, D.H. (ed.): International Symposium on the Devonian System, I, 203-244, Calgary
32. HOVLAND, M. (1989): Modern analogues to Middle Ordovician sedimentary mounds and washout depressions.-J. Sed. Petrol., 59, 585-589, Tulsa
33. HOVLAND, M., TALBOUT, M., QVALE, H., OLAUSSON, S. & AASBERG, L. (1987): Methane related carbonate cements in pockmarks of the North Sea.-J. Sed. Petrol., 57, 881-892, Tulsa
34. IRWIN, H., CURTIS, C. & COLEMAN, M. (1977): Isotopic evidence for source of diagenetic carbonates formed during burial of organic-rich sediments.-Nature, 269, 209-213, London
35. JOLLIVET, D. FAUGERES, J., GRIBOULARD, R., DESBRUYERES, D. & BLANC, G. (1990): Composition and spatial organization of a cold seep community on the South Barbados accretionary prism: tectonic, geochemical and sedimentary context.-Prog. Oceanogr., 24, 24-45, Oxford
36. KAUFFMAN, E.G., ARTHUR, M.A., HOWE, B & SCHOLLE, P.A. (1996): Widespread venting of methane-rich fluids in Late Cretaceous (Campanian) submarine springs (Tepee Buttes), Western Interior seaway, U.S.A..-Geology, 24, 799-802, Boulder
37. KELLY, S.R.A., DITCHFIELD, P.W., DOUBLEDAY, P.A. & MARSHALL, J.D. (1995): An Upper Jurassic methane-seep limestone from the fossil Bluff Group forearc basin of Alexander Island, Antartica.-J. Sed. Research, A65, 274-282 Tulsa
38. KENNARD, J.M. & JAMES, N.P. (1986): Thrombolites and Stromatolites: Two distinct types of microbial structures.-Palaios, 1, 492-503, Tulsa
39. KULM, L.D., SUESS, E., MOORE, J.C., CARSON, B., LEWIS, B.T., RITGER, S.D., KADKO, D.C., THORNBURG, T.M., EMBLEY, R.W., RUGH, W.D., MASSOTH, G.J., LANGSETH, M.G., COCHRANE, G.R. & SCAMMAN, R.L. (1986): Oregon subduction zone: venting fauna and carbonates.-Science, 231, 561-566, Washington D.C.
40. KULM, L.D. & SUESS, E. (1990): Relationship between carbonate deposits and fluid venting: Oregon accretionary prism.-Jour. Geophys. Research, 231, 8899-8915, Washington D.C.
41. LAVOIE, D. (1997): Hydrothermal vent bacterial community in Ordovician ophicalcite, southern Quebec Appalachians.-J. Sed. Research, 67, 47-53, Tulsa
42. LITTLE, C.T.S., HERRINGTON, R.J., MASLENNIKOV, V.V., MORRIS, N.J. & ZAYKOV, V.V. (1997): Silurian hydrothermal-vent community from the southern Urals, Russia.-Nature 385, 146-148, London
43. LONSDALE, P.F. (1977): Clustering of suspension-feeding macrobenthos near abyssal hydrothermal vents at oceanic spreading centers.-Deep-Sea Research, 24, 857-863, Oxford
44. LEPICHON, X., FOUCHER, J.-P., BOULEGUE, J., HENRY, P., LALLEMANT, S., BENEDETTI, M., AVEDIK, F. & MARIOTTI (1990): Mud volcano field of the Barbados accretionary complex: A submersible survey.-Journal of Geophysical Research, 95, 8931-8943, Washington D.C.
45. MCCREA, C.M. (1950): The isotopic chemistry of carbonates and a paleotemperature scale.-J. Chem. Phys., 18, 849-857, Lancaster
46. th African-European Meeting, Tunisia, Abstracts, 192-193, Sfax
47. MOUNJI, D., BOURQUE, P.-A. & SAVARD, M. (1997): Devonian mud mounds and mud-rich sponge-coral mounds of the Moroccan Anti-Atlas: petrography, geochemistry and accretionary mechanisms.-CSPG-SEPM Joint Convention, June 1-6, 199, Calgary
48. MOUNJI, D., BOURQUE, P.-A. & SAVARD, M. (1998): Hydrothermal origin of Devonian conical mounds (kess-kess) of Hamar-Lakhdad Ridge, Anti-Atlas, Morocco.-Geology, 26, 1123-1126, Boulder
49. PAULL, C.K., HECKER, B., COMMEAU, R., FREEMAN-LYNDE, R.P., NEUMANN, A.C., CORSO, W.P., GOLUBIC, S., HOOK, J., SIKES, E. & CURRAY, J. (1984): Biological communities at Florida Escarpment resemble hydrothermal vent communities.-Science, 226, 965-967, Washington D.C.
50. PECKMANN, J., NEUWEILER, F., REITNER, J., GAILLARD, C., GAUTRET, P., THIEL, V. & MICHAELIS, W. (1997): On the origin of authigenic micrites in biogenic mud mounds and cold seep carbonates.-In: VAI, G.B., TAVIANI, M., CONTI, S. & AHARON, P. (eds.): Cold-E-Vent - Hydrocarbon seepage and chemosynthesis in Tethyan relic basins, Abstract Book, p. 16, Bologna
51. PRAUSS, M. & RIEGEL, W. (1989): Evidence from phytoplankton associations for causes of black-shale formation in epicontinental seas.-N. Jb. Geol. Paläont., Mh., 1989, 671-682, Stuttgart
52. RAD, U. VON, RÖSCH, H., BERNER, U., GEYH, M., MARCHIG, V. & SCHULZ, H. (1996): Authigenic carbonates derived from oxidized methane vented from the Makran accretionary prism off Pakistan.-Marine Geology, 136, 55-77, Amsterdam
53. RAU, G. & HEDGES, J.I. (1979): Carbon-13 depletion in a hydrothermal vent mussel: Suggestion on a chemosynthetic food source.-Science, 203, 648-649, Washington D.C.
54. REITNER, J. (1986): A comparative study of the diagenesis in diapir-influenced reef atolls and a fault block reef platform in the Late Albian of the Vasco-Cantabrian Basin (Northern Spain).-In: SCHRÖDER, J.H. & PURSER B.H. (eds.): Reef Diagenesis. - 186-210, Berlin (Springer)
55. RITGER, S., CARSON, B. & SUESS, E. (1987): Methane-derived authigenic carbonates formed by subduction-induced pore-water expulsion along the Oregon/Washington margin.-Geological Society of America Bulletin, 98, 147-156, Boulder
56. ROBERTS, H.H., AHARON, P. & WALSH, M.M. (1993): Cold-seep carbonates of the Louisiana continental slope-to-basin floor.-In: REZAK, R. & LAVOIE D.L. (eds.): Carbonate Microfabrics, 95-104, Berlin (Springer)
57. ROBERTS, H.H. & AHARON, P. (1994): Hydrocarbon-derived carbonate buildups of the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope: A review of submersible investigations.-Geo-Marine Letters, 14, 135-148, Berlin
58. SAVARD, M.M., BEAUCHAMP, B. & VEIZER, J. (1996): Significance of aragonite cements around Cretaceous marine methane seeps.-J. Sed. Research, 66, 430-438, Tulsa
59. SIBUET, M., JUNIPER, S.K. & PAUTOT, G.(1988): Cold-seepbenthic communities in the Japan subduction zones: Geological control of community development.-Journal of Marine Research, 46, 333-348, New Haven
60. 16 ratios of total oxygen of carbonates. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 29, 1347-1353, Oxford
61. STAPLIN, F.L. (1961): Reef-controlled distribution of Devonian microplankton in Alberta.-Palaeontology, 4, 392-424, London
62. TAPPAN, H. (1980): The paleobiology of plant protists.-Freeman, 1-1028, Oxford
63. TERZI, C., AHARON, P., RICCI LUCCHI, F. & VAI, B.C. (1994): Petrography and stable isotope aspects of cold-vent activity imprinted on Miocene-age "calcari a Lucina" from Tuscan and Romagna Apennines, Italy.-Geo-Marine Letters, 14, 177-184, Berlin
64. TÖNEBÖHN, R. (1991): Bildungsbedingungen epikontinentaler Cephalopodenkalke (Devon, SE-Marokko).-Göttinger Arbeiten zur Geologie und Paläontologie, 47, 114p, Göttingen
65. WALLISER, O.H. (1991): Hamar el Khdad (Hamar Laghdad).-In: WALLISER, O.H. (ed.): Field Meeting of the International Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy, Guide-Book, Morocco 1991, 75-79, Göttingen
66. -(1996): Global events in the Devonian and Carboniferous.-In: WALLISER, O.H. (ed.): Global Events and Event Stratigrapy in the Phanerozoic. - 225-250, Berlin (Springer)
67. 2 reduction vs. acetate fermentation-isotope evidence.-Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 50, 693-709, Oxford