Molecular fossils and other organic markers as palaeoenvironmental indicators of the Messinian Calcare di Base Formation: normal versus stressed marine deposition (Rossano Basin, northern Calabria, Italy)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 255, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 265-283

  Guido, Adriano ^a   Jacob, Jérémy ^b   Gautret, Pascale ^b   Laggoun Défarge, Fatima ^b   Mastandrea, Adelaide ^a   Russo, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

Calabria; Calcare di Base Formation; Depositional environment; Italy; Messinian; Microfacies; Organic matter

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DIAGENESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; FECAL PELLET; FOSSIL; LIMESTONE; MICROFACIES; MIOCENE; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PETROGRAPHY; STROMATOLITE;

CALABRIA; COSENZA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; ROSSANO BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ALGAE; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COPEPODA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 35348960966     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.07.015     Document Type: Article

References (81)

1. Adam P., Schmid J.C., Mycke B., Strazielle C., Connan J., Huc A., Riva A., and Albrecht P. Structural investigation of non polar sulfur cross-linked macromolecules in petroleum. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 57 (1993) 3395-3419
2. Baranger P., and Disnar J.R. Non-aromatic biomarkers associated with a Paleogene salt formation (Bresse, France). Org. Geochem. 13 (1988) 647-653
3. Baranger P., Disnar J.R., Farjanel G., and Fourmont P. Confrontation de données géochimiques et optiques quantitatives et qualitatives sur la matière organique associée aux séries salifères de Bresse. Bull. Soc. Géol. Fr. 8 (1989) 967-978
4. Bartle K.D., Jones D.W., Pakdel H., Snape C.E., Calimli A., Olcay A., and Tûgrl T. Paraffinic hydrocarbons from supercritical gas extracts of coal as organic geochemical tracers. Nature 277 (1979) 285-287
5. Bellanca A., and Neri R. Evaporite carbonate cycles of the Messinian, Sicily: Stable isotopes, mineralogy, textural features, and environmental implications. J. Sediment. Petrol. 56 (1986) 614-621
6. Bellanca A., Caruso A., Ferruzza G., Neri R., Rouchy J.M., Sprovieri M., and Blanc-Valleron M.M. Transition from marine to hypersaline condition in the Messinian Tripoli Formation from the marginal areas of the central Sicilian Basin. Sediment. Geol. 140 (2001) 87-105
7. Bonardi G., Cavazza W., Perrone V., and Rossi S. Calabria-Peloritani terrane and northern Ionian Sea. In: Vai G.B., and Martini I.P. (Eds). Anatomy of an orogen: The Appenines and Adjacent Mediterranean Basins (2001), Kluwer Academic Publishers 287-306
8. Bourdon S., Laggoun-Défarge F., Maman O., Disnar J.-R., Guillet B., Derenne S., and Largeau C. Organic matter sources and early diagenetic degradation in a tropical peaty marsh (Tritrivakely, Madagascar). Implications for environmental reconstruction during the Sub-Atlantic. Org. Geochem. 31 (2000) 421-438
9. Brassell S.C., Eglinton G., Maxwell J.R., and Philp R.P. Natural background of alkanes in the aquatic environment. In: Hutzinger O., van Lelyveld L.H., and Zoeteman B.C.J. (Eds). Aquatic Pollutants: Transformation and Biological Effects (1978), Pergamon Press, Oxford 69-86
10. Brassell S.C., Eglinton G., and Mo F.J. Biological marker compounds as indicators of the depositional history of the Maoming oil shale. Org. Geochem. 10 (1986) 927-941
11. Buczynski C., and Chafetz H.S. Habit of bacterially induced precipitates of calcium carbonate and the influence of medium viscosity on mineralogy. J. Sediment. Petrol. 61 (1991) 226-233
12. Castanier S., Le Métayer-Levrel G., and Perthuisot J.-P. Ca-carbonates precipitation and limestone genesis - the microbiogeologist point of view. Sediment. Geol. 126 (1999) 9-23
13. Castanier S., Le Métayer-Levrel G., and Perthuisot J.-P. Bacterial roles in the precipitation of carbonate minerals. In: Riding R.E., and Awramik S.M. (Eds). Microbial sediments (2000), Springer Verlag, Berlin 32-39
14. Cavazza W., and De Celles P.G. Miocene submarine canyons and associated sedimentary facies in southeastern Calabria, southeastern Italy. Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull. 105 (1993) 1297-1309
15. Cavazza W., Blenkinsop J., De Celles P.G., Patterson R.T., and Reinhardt E.G. Stratigrafia e sedimentologia della sequenza sedimentaria oligocenico-quaternaria del bacino calabro-ionico. Boll. Soc. Geol. Ital. 116 (1997) 51-77
16. Chafetz H.S. Marine peloids: a product of bacterially induced precipitation of calcite. J. Sediment. Petrol. 56 (1986) 812-817
17. Chaffee A.L., Hoover D.S., Johns R.B., and Schweighardt F.K. Biological markers extractable from coal. In: Johns R.B. (Ed). Biological markers in the sedimentary record (1986)
18. Chuecas L., and Riley J.P. Component fatty acids of the total lipids of some marine phytoplankton. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 49 (1969) 97-116
19. Connan J., Bouroullec J., Dessert D., and Albrecht P. The microbial input in carbonate-anhydrite facies of a sabkha paleoenvironment from Guatemala: a molecular approach. In: Leythaeuser D., and Rullkötter J. (Eds). Advances in Organic Geochemistry (1986), Pergamon Press, Oxford 29-50
20. Cranwell P.A. Lipids of aquatic sediments and sedimenting particulates. Prog. Lipid Res. 21 (1982) 271-308
21. Critelli S. The interplay of lithospheric flexure and thrust accommodation in forming stratigraphic sequences in the southern Apennines foreland basin system, Italy. Rend. Lincei, Sci. Fis. Nat. 4 (1999) 257-326
22. Decima A., McKenzie J.A., and Schreiber B.C. The origin of "evaporitive" limestones: an example from the Messinian of Sicily (Italy). J. Sediment. Petrol. 58 (1988) 256-272
23. Dravis J.J., and Yurewicz D.A. Enhanced carbonate petrography using fluorescence microscopy. J. Sediment. Petrol. 55 (1985) 795-804
24. Durand B., and Nicaiase. Kerogen- insoluble organic matter from sedimentary rocks (1980), Technip, Paris
25. Eglinton G., and Hamilton R.J. Leaf epicuticular waxes. Science 156 (1967) 1322-1335
26. Espitalié J., Madec M., Tissot B., and Leplat P. Source rock characterization method for petroleum exploration. Proceedings of the Offshore Technology Conference, May 2-5, 1977 (1997), OTC, Houston, TX 439-444
27. Espitalié J., Deroo G., and Marquis F. La pyrolyse Rock-Eval et ses applications, Partie I. Rev. Inst. Fr. Pet. 40 (1985) 563-579
28. Espitalié J., Deroo G., and Marquis F. La pyrolyse Rock-Eval et ses applications, Partie II. Rev. Inst. Fr. Pet. 40 (1985) 755-784
29. Espitalié J., Deroo G., and Marquis F. La pyrolyse Rock-Eval et ses applications, Partie III. Rev. Inst. Fr. Pet. 41 (1986) 73-89
30. Folk R.L., and Chafetz H.S. Bacterially induced microscale and nanoscale carbonate precipitates. In: Riding R.E., and Awramik S.M. (Eds). Microbial sediments (2000), Springer Verlag, Berlin 40-49
31. Funiciello R., Mattei M., Speranza F., and Faccenna C. La geodinamica del sistema Tirreno-Appennino. Le Scienze 343 (1997) 44-53
32. Gelin F., Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Harrson W.N., Maxwell J., and De Leeuw J.W. Molecular indicators for palaeoenvironmental change in a Messinian evaporitic sequence (Vena del Gesso, Italy): III. Stratigraphic changes in the molecular structure of kerogen in a single marl bed as revealed by flash pyrolysis. Org. Geochem. 23 (1995) 555-566
33. Grice K., Schouten S., Peters K.E., and Sinninghe Damsté J.J. Molecular isotopic characterisation of hydrocarbon biomarkers in Palaeocene-Eocene evaporitic, lacustrine source rocks from the Jianghan Basin, China. Org. Geochem. 29 (1998) 1745-1764
34. Grimalt J.O., and Albaiges J. Characterization of the depositional environments of the Ebro Delta (western Mediterranean) by the study of sedimentary lipid markers. Mar. Geol. 95 (1990) 207224
35. Grimalt J.O., de Wit R., Teixidor P., and Albaiges J. Lipid biogeochemistry of Phormidium and Microcoleus mats. Org. Geochem. 26 (1992) 509-530
36. Kazmierczak J., Coleman M.L., Gruszczynski M., and Kempe S. Cyanobacterial key to the genesis of micritic and peloidal limestones in ancient seas. Acta Palaeontol. Pol. 41 (1996) 319-338
37. Keely B.J., Blake S.R., Schaeffer P., and Maxwell J.R. Distributions of pigments in the organic matter of marls from the Vena del Gesso evaporitic sequence. Org. Geochem. 23 (1995) 527-539
38. Kenig F., Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Frewin N.L., Hayes J.M., and De Leeuw J.W. Molecular indicator for palaeoenvironmental change in a Messinian evaporitic sequence (Vena del Gesso, Italy). II: high-resolution variations in abundances and 13C contents of free and sulphur-bound carbon skeletons in a single marl bed. Org. Geochem. 23 (1995) 485-526
39. Krijgsman W., Hilgen F.J., Marabini S., and Vai G.B. New paleomagnetic and cyclostratigraphic age constraints on the Messinian of the Northern Apennines (Vena del Gesso Basin, Italy). Mem. Soc. Geol. Ital. 54 (1999) 25-33
40. Krijgsman, W., Hilgen, F.J., Raffi, I., Sierro, F.J., Wilson, D.S., 1999b. Cronology, causes and progression of the Messinian salinity crisis. Letters to nature, Nature Ref. N9414L (PHYS).
41. Lafargue E., Marquis F., and Pillot D. Rock-Eval 6 applications in hydrocarbon exploration, production, and soil contamination studies. Oil Gas Sci. Technol. 53 (1998) 421-437
42. Machel H.G., Mason R.A., Mariano A.N., and Mucci A. Causes and emission of luminescence in calcite and dolomite. In: Barker C.E., and Koop O.C. (Eds). Luminescence Microscopy and Spectroscopy: Qualitative and Quantitative Applications. SEMP Short Course vol. 25 (1991) 9-25
43. Mackenzie A.S., Patience R.L., and Maxwell J.R. Molecular parameters of maturation in the Toarcian shales, Paris Basin, France; I, Changes in the configuration of acyclic isoprenoid alkanes, steranes and triterpanes. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 44 (1980) 1709-1722
44. Malinverno A., and Ryan W.B.F. Extension in Tyrrhenian sea and shortening in the Appennines as result of arc migration driven by sinking of the lithosphere. Tectonics 5 (1986) 227-254
45. Mattei M., Cipollati P., Casentino D., Argentieri A., Rossetti F., Speranza F., and Di Bella L. The Miocene tectono-sedimentary evolution of the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea: stratigraphy, structural and paleomagnetic data from the on-shore Amantea basin (Calabrian arc, Italy). Basin Res. 14 (2002) 147-168
46. McKenzie J.A. Stable-isotope mapping in Messinian evaporative carbonates of central Sicily. Geology 13 (1985) 851-854
47. Moldowan J.M., Seifert W.K., Arnold E., and Clardy J. Relationship between petroleum composition and depositional environment of petroleum source rocks. Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Bull. 69 (1985) 1255-1268
48. Neuweiler, F., Reitner, J., 1995. Epifluorescence-microscopy of selected automicrites from lower Carnian Cipit-boulders of the Cassian formation (Seeland Alpe, Dolomites). In: Reitner, J. and Neuweiler, F. (coordinators). Mud Mounds: a polygenetic spectrum of fine-grained carbonate buildups. Facies 32, 26-28.
49. Ogniben L. Petrografia della serie solfifera Siciliana e considerazioni geologiche relative. Mem. Descr. Carta Geol. Ital. 8 (1957) 453-763
50. Ogniben L. Sedimenti Halitico-Calcitici a struttura grumosa nel Calcare di Base Messiniano in Sicilia. G. Geol. 2 (1963) 509-542
51. Ourisson G., Rohmer M., and Porolla K. Prokaryotic hopanoids and othe polyterpenoid sterol surrogates. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 41 (1987) 301-333
52. Patacca E., and Scandone P. Post-Tortonian mountain building in the Apennines. the role of the passive sinking of a relict lithospheric slab. In: Boriani A., Bonafede M., Piccardo G.B., and Vai G.B. (Eds). The lithosphere in Italy: Advances in Earth Science Research vol. 80 (1989), Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 157-176
53. Patacca E., Sartori R., and Scandone P. Tyrrhenian basin and Appenninic arcs: kinematic relations since late Tortonian times. Mem. Soc. Geol. Ital. 45 (1990) 425-451
54. Pedley H.M., and Grasso M. Controls on faunal and sediment cyclicity within the Tripoli and Calcare di Base basin (Late Miocene) of central Sicily. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 105 (1993) 337-360
55. Peters K.E., Walters C.C., and Moldowan J.M. The Biomarker Guide. Second Edition (2005), Cambridge University Press 1155
56. Roda C. Distribuzione e facies dei sedimenti neogenici del Bacino di Crotonese. Geol. Rom. 3 (1964) 319-366
57. Rosa-Putra S., Nalin R., Domenach A.-M., and Rohmer M. Novel hopanoids from Frankia spp. and related soil bacteria: squalene cyclization and significance of geological biomarkers revisited. Eur. J. Biochem. 268 (2001) 4300-4306
58. Rouchy J.M., and Saint-Martin J.P. Late Miocene events in the Mediterranean as recorded by carbonate-evaporite relations. Geology 20 (1992) 629-632
59. Rouchy J.M., and Caruso A. The Messinian salinity crisis in the Mediterranean basin: a reassessment of the data and an integrated scenario. Sediment. Geol. 188-189 (2006) 35-67
60. Russell M., Grimalt J.O., Taberner C., and Rouchy J.M. Bacterial and algal inputs in sedimentary organic matter deposited under natural sulphurization conditions (Lorca Basin, Murcia, Spain). Org. Geochem. 26 (1997) 605-625
61. Russo F., Neri C., Mastandrea A., and Baracca A. The mud-mound nature of the Cassian platform margins of the Dolomites. A case history: the Cipit Boulders from Punta Grohmann (Sasso Piatto Massif, Northern Italy). Facies 36 (1997) 25-36
62. Sartori R. The main results of ODP Leg 107 in the frame of Neogene to recent geology of the peri-Tyrrenian areas. In: Kastens K.A.M.J. (Ed). Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results vol. 107 (1990) 715-730
63. Schaeffer P., Reiss C., and Albrecht P. Geochemical study of macromolecular organic matter from sulfur-rich sediments of evaporitic origin (Messinian of Sicily) by chemical degradations. Org. Geochem. 23 (1995) 567-581
64. Schaeffer P., Harrison W.N., Keely B.J., and Maxwell J.R. Product distributions from chemical degradation of kerogens from a marl from a Miocene evaporitic sequence (Vena del Gesso, N. Italy). Org. Geochem. 23 (1995) 541-554
65. Schaeffer-Reiss C., Schaeffer P., Putschew A., and Maxwell J.R. Stepwise chemical degradation of immature S-rich kerogens from Vena del Gesso (Italy). Org. Geochem. 29 (1998) 1857-1873
66. Sebag D., Ogier S., Mesnage V., Di Giovanni C., Laggoun-Défarge F., and Durand A. Inventory of sedimentary organic matter in modern wetland (Marais Vernier, Normandy, France) as source-indicative tools to study Holocene alluvial deposits (Lower Seine Valley, France). Int. J. Coal Geol. 67 (2006) 1-16
67. Seifert W.K., and Moldovan J.M. The effect of thermal stress on source-rock quality as measured by hopane stereochemistry. In: Maxwell J.R. (Ed). Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (1980), Pergamon, Oxford 229-237
68. Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Frewin N.L., Kenig F., and De Leeuw J.W. Molecular indicators for palaeoenvironmental change in a Messinian evaporitic sequence (Vena del Cesso, Italy). I: variations in extractable organic matter of ten cyclically deposited marl beds. Org. Geochem. 23 (1995) 471-483
69. Summons R.E. Biogeochemical cycles: a review of fundamental aspects of organic matter formation, preservation and composition. In: Macko S.A. (Ed). Organic Geochemistry Principles and Applications (1993), Plenum, New York 3-21
70. Tamajo E. Probabili tracce di vita in livelli ritenuti azoici della formazione solfifera siciliana. Riv. Min. Sicil. 67 (1961) 3-11
71. ten Haven H.L., de Leeuw J.W., and Schenck P.A. Organic geochemical studies of a Messinian evaporitic basin, northern Apennines (Italy) I: hydrocarbon biological markers for a hypersaline environment. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 49 (1985) 2181-2191
72. ten Haven H.L., de Leeuw J.W., Sinninghe Damste J.S., Schenck P.A., Palmer S.E., and Zumberge J.E. Application of biological markers in the recognition of palaeohypersaline environments. In: Fleet A.J., et al. (Ed). Lacustrine Petroleum Source-rocks. Geological Society Special Publication vol. 40 (1988), Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford 123-130
73. Thiel V., Merz-Preiß M., Reitner J., and Michaelis W. Biomarker studies on microbial carbonates: extractable lipids of a calcifying cyanobacterial mat (Everglades, USA). Facies 36 (1997) 163-172
74. Thiel V., Blumenberg M., Pape T., Seifert R., and Michaelis M. Unexpected occurrence of hopanoids at gas seeps in the Black Sea. Org. Geochem. 34 (2003) 81-87
75. Tissot, B.P., Welte, D.H., 1984. Petroleum formation and occurrence. Second revised and enlarged edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo, pp.699.
76. Van Dijk J.P., Bello M., Brancaleoni G.P., Cantarella G., Costa V., Frixa A., Golfetto F., Merlini S., Riva M., Torricelli S., Toscano C., and Zerilli A. A regional structural model for the northern sector of the Calabrian Arc (southern Italy). Tectonophysics 324 (2000) 267-320
77. Volkman J.K. Review of sterol markers for marine and terrigenous organic matter. Org. Geochem. 9 (1986) 83-99
78. Volkman J.K., Johns R.B., Gillan F.T., Perry G.J., and Bavor H.J. Microbial sediments of an intertidal sediment - I. Fatty acids and hydrocarbons. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 44 (1980) 1133-1143
79. Volkman J.K., Eglinton G., and Corner E.D.S. Sterols and fatty acids of the marine diatom Biddulphia sinensis. Phytochemistry 19 (1980) 1809-1813
80. 30 4-methyl steranes. Org. Geochem. 10 (1986) 965-974
81. Zecchin M., Massari F., Mellere D., and Prosser G. Anatomy and evolution of a Mediterranean-type fault bounded basin: the lower Pliocene of the northern Crotone basin (southern Italy). Basin Res. 16 (2004) 117-143