Reconnaissance sedimentology and hydrocarbon biomarkers of Ediacarian microbial mats and acritarchs, lower Ungoolya Group, Officer Basin

Precambrian Research

Volumn 100, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 235-280

  Arouri, K ^a   Conaghan, P J ^a   Walter, M R ^a   Bischoff, G C O ^a   Grey, K ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acraman impact ejecta; Acritarchs; Biomarkers; Cyanobacteria; Lithofacies analysis; Microbial mats; Neoproterozoic; Officer Basin; Slope aprons

Indexed keywords

ACRITARCH; BIOMARKER; CYANOBACTERIUM; EJECTA; IMPACT; LITHOFACIES; PROTEROZOIC;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0034008877     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(99)00076-5     Document Type: Article

References (100)

1. Arouri K., Greenwood P.F., Walter M.R. Biological affinities of Neoproterozoic acritarchs from Australia. Org. Geochem. 2000;. in press.
2. Arouri K., Greenwood P.F., Walter M.R. A possible chlorophycean affinity of some Neoproterozoic acritarchs. Org. Geochem. 30:1999;1323-1337.
3. Bauld J. Microbial mats in marginal marine environments: Shark Bay Western Australia, and Spencer Gulf, South Australia. Cohen Y., Castenholz R.W., Halvorson H.O. Microbial Mats: Stromatolites. 1984;39-58 Liss, New York.
4. Bisseret P., Zundel M., Rohmer M. Prokaryotic triterpenoids. 2. 2β-Methylhopanoids from Methylobacterium organophilum and Nostoc muscorum, a new series of prokaryotic triterpenoids. Eur. J. Biochem. 150:1985;29-34.
5. Boon J.J., de Leeuw J.W., Krumbein W.E. Biogeochemistry of Gavish Sabkha sediments. II. Pyrolysis mass spectrometry of the laminated microbial mat in the permanently water-covered zone before and after the desert sheetflood of 1979. Friedman G.M., Krumbein W.E. Hypersaline Ecosystems: The Gavish Sabkha. 1985;368-380 Springer, Heidelberg.
6. Brassell S.C., Wardroper A.M.K., Thomson I.D., Maxwell J.R., Eglinton G. Specific acyclic isoprenoids as biological markers of methanogenic bacteria in marine sediments. Nature. 290:1981;693-696.
7. Buczynski C., Chafetz H.S. Habits of bacterially induced precipitates of calcium carbonate: examples from laboratory experiments and Recent sediments. Rezak R., Lavoie D.L. Carbonate Microfabrics. 1993;105-116 Springer, Berlin.
8. Butterfield N.J., Rainbird R.H. Diverse organic-walled fossils, including "possible dinoflagellates," from the early Neoproterozoic of arctic Canada. Geology. 26:1998;963-966.
9. Calver, C.R., 1995. Ediacarian isotope stratigraphy of Australia. Ph.D. Thesis, Macquarie University, Sydney (unpublished).
10. Calver, C.R., Grey, K., 1993. Lithologic log (1:400 scale) of the Neoproterozoic succession in Comalco Munta 1 drillcore, Officer Basin, South Australia. Macquarie University, Sydney (unpublished).
11. Calver C.R., Lindsay J.F. Ediacarian sequence and isotope stratigraphy of the Officer Basin, South Australia. Aust. J. Earth Sci. 45:1998;513-532.
12. Chafetz H.S., Folk R.L. Travertines: depositional morphology and the bacterially constructed constituents. J. Sed. Petrol. 54:1984;289-316.
13. Connan J., Bouroullec J., Dessort D., Albrecht P. The microbial input in carbonate-anhydrite facies of a sabkha palaeoenvironment from Guatemala: a molecular approach. Org. Geochem. 10:1986;29-50.
14. Cotter K.L. Microfossils from Neoproterozoic Supersequence 1 of the Officer Basin, Western Australia. Alcheringa. 23:1999;63-86.
15. Cucuzza, J., 1987. Munta 1 Well completion report. PEL 23, northeastern Officer Basin. Report for Comalco Aluminium Ltd, South Australia. Department of Mines and Energy. Open file envelope, 7090 (unpublished).
16. D'Amelio E., Cohen Y., Des Marais D.J. Comparative functional ultrastructure of two hypersaline submerged cyanobacterial mats: Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur, Mexico, and Solar Lake, Sinai, Egypt. Rosenberg E. Microbial Mats: Physiological Ecology of Benthic Microbial Communities. 1989;97-113 American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC. Chapter 9.
17. de Leeuw J.W., Largeau C. A review of macromolecular organic compounds that comprise living organisms and their role in kerogen, coal, and petroleum formation. Engel M.H., Macko S.A. Organic Geochemistry, Principles and Applications. 1993;23-72 Plenum, New York.
18. de Leeuw J.W., Sinninghe Damste J.S., Klok J., Schenck P.A., Boon J.J. Biogeochemistry of Gavish Sabkha sediments. I. Studies on neutral reducing sugars and lipid moieties by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Friedman G.M., Krumbein W.E. Hypersaline Ecosystems: The Gavish Sabkha. 1985;350-367 Springer, Berlin.
19. de Rosa M., Gambacorta A., Minale L., Bu'lock J.D. The formation of ω-cyclohexyl-fatty acids from shikimate in an acidophilic thermophilic bacillus. Biochem. J. 128:1972;751-754.
20. Des Marais D.J., Bauld J., Palmisano A.C., Summons R.E., Ward D.M. The biogeochemistry of carbon in modern microbial mats. Schopf J.W., Klein C. The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study. 1992;299-308 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
21. Des Marais D.J., D'Amelio E., Farmer J.D., Jorgensen B., Palmisano A.C., Pierson B.K. Case study of a modern microbial mat-building community: the submerged cyanobacterial mats of Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Schopf J.W., Klein C. The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study. 1992;325-333 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
22. Dill H., Teschner M., Wehner H. Petrography, inorganic geochemistry of lower Permian carbonaceous fan sequences ("Brandschiefer series") - Federal Republic of Germany: constraints to their paleogeography and assessment of their source rock potential. Chem. Geol. 67:1988;307-325.
23. Dobson G., Ward D.M., Robinson N., Eglinton G. Biogeochemistry of hot springs environments: extractable lipids of a cyanobacterial mat. Chem. Geol. 68:1988;155-179.
24. Einsele G., Ricken W., Seilacher A. Cycles and events in stratigraphy - basic concepts and terms. Einsele G., Seilacher A. Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy. 1991;1-19 Springer, Berlin.
25. Flaviano C., Le Berre F., Derenne S., Largeau C., Connan J. First indications of the formation of kerogen amorphous fractions by selective preservation. Role of non-hydrolysable macromolecular constituents of Eubacterial cell walls. Org. Geochem. 22:1994;759-771.
26. Folk R.L., Chafetz H.S. Diagenetic calcite varieties from travertines of central Italy. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull. 67:1983;461.
27. Folk R.L., Chafetz H.S., Tiezzi P.A. Bizzare forms of depositional and diagenetic calcite in hot-spring travertines, central Italy. Scheiderman N., Harris P.M. Carbonate Cements. SEPM Spec. Publ. 36:1985;349-369.
28. Fowler M.G., Douglas A.G. Distribution and structure of hydrocarbons in four organic-rich Ordovician rocks. Schenck P.A., de Leeuw J.W., Lijmbach G.W.M. Advances in Organic Geochemistry 1983. Org. Geochem. 6:1984;105-114.
29. Fowler M.G., Douglas A.G. Saturated hydrocarbon biomarkers in oils of Late Precambrian age from Eastern Siberia. Org. Geochem. 11:1987;201-203.
30. Fowler M.G., Abolins P., Douglas A.G. Monocyclic alkanes in Ordovician organic matter. Org. Geochem. 10:1986;815-823.
31. Gelpi E., Schneider H., Mann J., Oro J. Hydrocarbons of geochemical significance in microscopic algae. Phytochemistry. 9:1970;603-612.
32. Gerdes G., Krumbein W.E., Reineck H.-E. Biolaminations - ecological versus depositional dynamics. Einsele G., Ricken W., Seilacher A. Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy. 1991;592-607 Springer, Berlin.
33. Gostin V.A., Haines P.W., Jenkins R.J.F., Compston W., Williams I.S. Impact ejecta horizon within late Precambrian shales, Adelaide Geosyncline, South Australia. Science. 233:1986;198-200.
34. Golubic S. Organisms that build stromatolites. Walter M.R. Stromatolites. Developments in Sedimentology. 20:1976;113-126 Elsevier, Amsterdam.
35. Gravestock D.I. Geological setting and structural history. Morton J.G.G., Drexel J.F. Officer Basin. Petroleum Geology of South Australia. vol. 3:1997;35-45. South Australia. Department of Mines and Energy Resources Report Book 97/19.
36. Gravestock D.I., Morton J.G.G. Potential traps and prospects. Morton J.G.G., Drexel J.F. Officer Basin. Petroleum Geology of South Australia. vol. 3:1997;129-140. South Australia. Department of Mines and Energy Resources Report Book 97/19.
37. Gravestock D.I., Morton J.G.G., Zang W.-L. Biostratigraphy and correlation. Morton J.G.G., Drexel J.F. Officer Basin. Petroleum Geology of South Australia. vol. 3:1997;87-97. South Australia. Department of Mines and Energy Resources Report Book 97/19.
38. Grey, K., 1998. Ediacarian palynology of Australia. Ph.D. Thesis, Macquarie University, Sydney (unpublished).
39. Grey K., Cotter K.L. Palynology in the search for Proterozoic hydrocarbons. Western Australia Geological Survey Annual Review 1995-96. 1996;70-80.
40. Hill A.C., Al-Arouri K., Gorjan P., Walter M.R. The geochemistry of marine and non-marine environments of a Neoproterozoic cratonic carbonate/evaporite: the Bitter Springs Formation central Australia. Grotzinger J.P., James N.P. Precambrian Carbonates. SEPM Spec. Publ. 1999;. in press.
41. Hoering T.C. Molecular fossils from the Precambrian Nonesuch Shale. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yearbook. 75:1976;806-813.
42. Hoering T.C. Monomethyl, acyclic hydrocarbons in petroleum and rock extracts. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yearbook. 80:1981;389-394.
43. Jackson M.J., Powell T.G., Summons R.E., Sweet I.P. Hydrocarbon show and petroleum source rocks in sediments as old as 1.7×109 years. Nature. 322:1986;727-729.
44. Kenig F., Sinninghe Damste J.P., Kock-Van Dalen A.C., Rijpstra W.I.C., Huc A.Y., de Leeuw J.W. Occurrence and origin of mono-, di-, and trimethylalkanes in modern and Holocene cyanobacterial mats from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 59:1995;2999-3015.
45. Kissin Y.V. Catagenesis and composition of petroleum: origin of n-alkanes and isoalkanes in petroleum crudes. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 51:1987;2445-2457.
46. Klomp U.C. The chemical structure of a pronounced series of iso-alkanes in South Oman crudes. Leythaeuser D., Rullkotter J. Advances in Organic Geochemistry 1985. Org. Geochem. 10:1986;807-814.
47. Kokinos J.P., Eglinton T.I., Goni M.A., Boon J.J., Martoglio P.A., Anderson D.M. Characterization of a highly resistant biomacromolecular material in the cell wall of a marine dinoflagellate resting cyst. Org. Geochem. 28:1998;265-288.
48. Lindsay J.F., Leven J.H. Evolution of a Neoproterozoic to Palaeozoic intracratonic setting, Officer Basin, South Australia. Basin Res. 8:1996;403-424.
49. Logan G.A., Calver C.R., Gorjan P., Summons R.E., Hayes J.M., Walter M.R. Terminal Proterozoic mid-shelf benthic microbial mats in the Centralian Superbasin and their environmental significance. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 1999;. in press.
50. Lundegard P.D., Samuels N.D., Pryor W.A. Upper Devonian turbidite sequence central and southern Appalachian basin: contrasts with submarine fan deposits. Woodrow D.L., Sevon W.D. The Catskill Delta. Geological Society of America Special Paper. 201:1985;107-121.
51. Machel H.G., Burton E.A. Factors governing cathodoluminescence in calcite and dolomite and their implications for studies of carbonate diagenesis. Barker C.E., Kopp O.C. Luminescence Microscopy: Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects. SEPM Short Course 25. 1991;37-57.
52. McKirdy D.M., Imbus S.W. Precambrian petroleum: a decade of changing perceptions. Schidlowski M., Golubic S., Kimberley M.M., McKirdy D.M., Trudinger P.A. Early Organic Evolution: Implications for Mineral and Energy Resources. 1992;176-192 Springer.
53. Moczydlowska M., Vidal G., Rudavskaya V.A. Neoproterozoic (Vendian) phytoplankton from the Siberian Platform, Yakutia. Palaeontology. 36:1993;495-521.
54. Morton J.G.G. Introduction and summary. Morton J.G.G., Drexel J.F. Officer Basin. The Petroleum Geology of South Australia. vol. 3:1997;1-5. South Australia. Department of Mines and Energy Resources Report Book 97/19.
55. Morton J.G.G. Lithostratigraphy and environments of deposition. Morton J.G.G., Drexel J.F. Officer Basin. The Petroleum Geology of South Australia. vol. 3:1997;47-86. South Australia. Department of Mines and Energy Resources Report Book 97/19.
56. Moussavi-Harami R., Gravestock D.I. Burial history of the eastern Officer Basin, South Australia. APEA J. 35:1995;307-319.
57. Mycke B., Michaelis W., Degens E.T. Biomarkers in sedimentary sulfide of Precambrian age. Mattavelli L., Novelli L. Advances in Organic Geochemistry 1987. Org. Geochem. 13:1988;619-625.
58. Nelson D.R. Long-chain methyl branched hydrocarbons: occurrence, biosynthesis and function. Adv. Insect. Pyhsiol. 13:1978;1-33.
59. Nelson D.R., Blomquist G.J. Insect waxes. Hamilton R.J. Waxes: Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Functions. 1995;1-129 The Oily Press, Dundee.
60. O'Brien N.R. Significance of lamination in Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) shales from Yorkshire, Great Britain. Sediment. Geol. 67:1990;25-34.
61. Oshima M., Ariga T. ω-Cyclohexyl fatty acids in acidophilic bacteria. J. Biol. Chem. 256:1975;6963-6968.
62. Paoletti C., Pushparaj B., Florenzano G., Capella P., Lercker G. Unsaponifiable matter of green and blue green algal lipids as a factor of biochemical differentiation of their biomasses: I. Total unsaponifiable hydrocarbon fraction. Lipids. 11:1976;258-265.
63. Perincek, D., 1998. A compilation and review of data pertaining to the hydrocarbon prospectivity of the Officer Basin. Geological Survey of Western Australia Record 1997/6, 209 pp.
64. Pickering K.T., Hiscott R.N., Hein F.J. Deep Marine Environments: Clastic Sedimentation and Tectonics. 1989;Unwin Hyman, London.
65. Preiss W.V., Belperio A.P., Cowley W.M., Rankin L.R. Neoproterozoic. Drexel J.F., Preiss W.V., Parker A.J. The Geology of South Australia. vol. 1: The Precambrian. Geological Survey of South Australia Bulletin. 54:1993;170-203.
66. Reading H.G., Richards M. Turbidite systems in deep-water margins classified by grain size and feeder system. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull. 78:1994;792-822.
67. Robinson N., Eglinton G. Lipid chemistry of Iclandic hot spring microbial mats. Org. Geochem. 15:1990;291-298.
68. Robinson R.A., Kaesler R.L. Phylum Arthropoda part I. Boardman R.S., Cheetham A.H., Rowell A.J. Fossil Invertebrates. 1987;205-269 Blackwell.
69. Sarjeant W.A.S. Review of Evitt, W.R., 1985, sporopollenin dinoflagellate cysts: their morphology and interpretation. Microplaeontology. 3:1986;282-285.
70. Schieber J. The possible role of benthic microbial mats during the formation of carbonaceous shales in shallow mid-Proterozoic basins. Sedimentology. 33:1986;521-536.
71. Schieber J. Facies and origin of shales from the mid-Proterozoic Newfoundland Formation, Belt Basin, Montana, USA. Sedimentology. 36:1989;203-219.
72. Schieber J. Significance of styles of epicontinental shale sedimentation in the Belt Basin, mid-Proterozoic of Montana, USA. Sedimentology. 39:1990;297-312.
73. Schieber J. Microbial mats in terrigenous clastics: the challenge of identification in the rock record. Palios. 14:1999;3-12.
74. Schmidt P.W., Williams G.E. Palaeomagnetism of the ejecta-bearing Buneroo Formation, late Neoproterozoic, Adelaide fold belt, and the age of the Acraman impact. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 144:1996;347-358.
75. Shiea J., Brassell S.C., Ward D.M. Mid-chain branched mono- and dimethyl alkanes in hot spring cyanobacterial mats: a direct biogenic source for branched alkanes in ancient sediments? Org. Geochem. 15:1990;223-231.
76. Shiea J., Brassell S.C., Ward D.M. Comparative analysis of extractable lipids in hot spring microbial mats and their component photosynthetic bacteria. Org. Geochem. 17:1991;309-319.
77. Stow D.A.V., Reading H.G., Collinson J.D. Deep seas. Reading H.G. Sedimentary Environments: Processes, Facies and Stratigraphy. third ed. 1996;395-453 Blackwell, Oxford.
78. Sukanta, U., 1993. Sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy and palaeogeography of Ediacarian sediments in the eastern Officer Basin, South Australia. Ph.D. Thesis, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide (unpublished, not seen).
79. Sukanta U., Thomas B., Von Der Borch C.C., Gatehouse C.G. Sequence stratigraphic studies and canyon formation. PESA J. 19:1991;68-73.
80. Summons R.E. Branched alkanes from ancient and modern sediments: isomer discrimination by GC/MS with multiple reaction monitoring. Org. Geochem. 11:1987;281-289.
81. Summons R.E. Abundance and composition of extractable organic matter. Schopf J.W., Klein C. The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study. 1992;101-115 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
82. Summons R.E., Jahnke L.L. Identification of the methylhopanes in sediments and petroleum. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 54:1992;247-251.
83. Summons R.E., Walter M.R. Molecular fossils and microfossils of prokaryotes and protists from Proterozoic sediments. Am. J. Sci. 290-A:1990;212-244.
84. Summons R.E., Brassell S.C., Eglinton G., Evans E., Horodysky R.J., Robinson N., Ward D.M. Distinctive hydrocarbon biomarkers from fossiliferous sediment of the Late Proterozoic Walcott Member, Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 52:1988;2625-2637.
85. Summons R.E., Powell T.G., Boreham C.J. Petroleum geology and geochemistry of the Middle Proterozoic McArthur Basin, Northern Australia: III. Composition of extractable hydrocarbons. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 52:1988;1747-1763.
86. Summons R.E., Jahnke L.L., Hope J.M., Logan G.A. Geolipids from cyanobacteria: new studies of old rocks and hot spring microbial mats from Yellowstone National Park. Proc. Aust. Org. Geochem. Conf. 1998. 1998;10-11.
87. Ten Haven H.L., de Leeuw J.W., Sinninghe Damste J.S., Schenck P.A., Palmer S.E., Zumberge J.E. Application of biological markers in the recognition of palaeo hypersaline environments. Kelts K., Fleet A., Talbot M. Lacustrine Petroleum Source Rocks. Geological Society of London Special Publication. 40:1988;123-140.
88. Wallace M.W., Gostin V.A., Keays R.R. Discovery of the Acraman impact ejecta blanket in the Officer Basin and its stratigraphic significance. Aust. J. Earth Sci. 36:1989;585-587.
89. Walter M.R. Faecal pellets in world events. Nature. 376:1995;16-17.
90. Walter M.R., Veevers J.J. Australian Neoproterozoic palaeogeography, tectonics, and supercontinental connections. AGSO J. Geol. Geophys. 17:1997;73-92.
91. Walter M.R., Bauld J., Des Marais D.J., Schopf J.W. A general comparison of microbial mats and microbial stromatolites: bridging the gap between the modern and the fossil. Schopf J.W., Klein C. The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study. 1992;335-338 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
92. Walter M.R., Veevers J.J., Calver C.R., Grey K. Neoproterozoic stratigraphy of the Centralian Superbasin. Precam. Res. 73:1995;173-195.
93. Walter M.R., Veevers J.J., Calver C.R., Gorjan P., Hill A.C. Dating the 840-544 Ma Neoproterozoic interval by isotopes of strontium, carbon, and sulfur in seawater, and some interpretative models. Precam. Res. 100:2000;373-435.
94. Ward D.M., Yayne T.A., Anderson K.L., Bateson M.M. Community structure and interactions among community members in hot spring cyanobacterial mats. Symp. Soc. Gen. Microbiol. 41:1987;179-210.
95. Ward D.M., Bauld J., Castenholz R.W., Pierson B.K. Modern phototrophic microbial mats: anoxygenic intermittently oxygenic/anoxygenic thermal eukaryotic and terrestrial. Schopf J.W., Klein C. The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study. 1992;309-324 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
96. Woodrow D.L. Paleogeography, paleoclimate and sedimentary processes of the Late Devonian Catskill Delta. Woodrow D.L., Sevon W.D. The Catskill Delta. Geological Society of America Special Paper. 201:1985;51-63.
97. Woodrow D.L., Isley A.M. Facies, topography, and sedimentary processes in the Catskill Sea (Devonian), New York and Pennsylvania. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 94:1983;459-470.
98. Wright V.P., Burchette T.P. Shallow-water carbonate environments. Reading H.G. Sedimentary Environments: Processes, Facies and Stratigraphy. third ed. 1996;325-394 Blackwell, Oxford.
99. Zang W., McKirdy D.M. Microfossils and molecular fossils from the Neoproterozoic Alinya Formation - a possible new source rock in the eastern Officer Basin. PESA J. 22:1994;89-90.
100. Zang W., Walter M.R. Late Proterozoic and Early Cambrian microfossils and biostratigraphy, Amadeus Basin, central Australia. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists. Memoir 12:1992;. 132 pp.