Organic geochemistry and petrology of barren and Mo-Ni-PGE mineralized marine black shales of the Lower Cambrian Niutitang Formation (South China)

International Journal of Coal Geology

Volumn 72, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 240-256

  Kříbek, Bohdan ^a   Sýkorová, Ivana ^b   Pašava, Jan ^a   Machovič, Vladimír ^b,c  

^a CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ROCK STRUCTURE AND MECHANICS   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Lower Cambrian; Micro Raman spectra; Mineralized black shale; Organic particles; Reflectance; South China

Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALE; MICRO-RAMAN SPECTRA; ORGANIC PARTICLES;

CHINA; GEOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT REFLECTION; MINERALOGY; MORPHOLOGY; PETROLOGY;

SHALE;

BLACK SHALE; CAMBRIAN; MARINE SEDIMENT; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; PETROLOGY; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 35548944893     PISSN: 01665162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coal.2007.02.002     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Boenigk W., Haenel H., and Zader M. Structural features and preparative size inclusion chromatography. Fuel 69 (1990) 1226-1232
2. Bourrat X., Oberlin A., and Escalier J.C. Microtexture and structure of semi-cokes and cokes. Fuel 65 (1986) 1490-1499
3. Chen X., and Wang X. Biota and Organic Matter in the Upper Sinian and Lower Cambrian Black Rocks Series in Western Hunan, China and Their Significance for Metallogeny: Geology and Mineral Resources of South China (2000), Department of Geology and Mineral Resources of South China, Zichang City, China 16-23 (in Chinese with English abstract)
4. Coveney R.M. Re-Os dating of polymetallic Ni-Mo-PGE-Au mineralization in lower Cambrian black shales of south China and its geological significance; discussion. Econ. Geol. 98 (2003) 661-662
5. Coveney R.M., Grauch R.I., and Murowchick J.B. Metals, phosphate and stone coal in the Proterozoic and Cambrian of China: the geologic setting of precious metal-bearing Ni-Mo ore beds. Soc. Appl. Geol. (SGA) Newsl. 18 (1994) 1-11
6. 13C in Cretaceous marine organic matter: source, diagenetic, or environmental signal?. Mar. Geol. 70 (1986) 119-157
7. Duan T., and Jian W. Signatures of Tectonics, Climate and Sediment Supply on Sinian-Cambrian Supersequence, Yangtze Block, South China: Annual Meeting Expanded Abstracts of American Association of Petroleum Geologists (2001), American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa 53
8. Emsbo P. Genetic links among syngenetic metal accumulations in sedimentary basins: giant sediment-hosted metal deposits to metalliferous black shales. Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. 36 (2004) 199
9. Emsbo P., Hofstra H., Johnson C.A., Koenig A., Grauch R., Zhang X., Hu R., Su W., and Pi D. Lower Cambrian metallogenesis of south China: interplay between diverse basinal hydrothermal fluids and marine chemistry. In: Mao J., and Bierlein F.P. (Eds). Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge. Proceedings of the Eighth Biennial SGA Meeting Bejing (2005), Springer, Berlin 115-118
10. Espitalié J., Madec M., and Tissot B. Source-rock characterisation method for petroleum and exploration. Ninth Annual Offshore Conference, III, Houston, Texas (1977) 439-444
11. Espitalié J., Deroo G., and Marquis F. La pyrolyse Rock-Eval et ses applications (premiere partie). Rev. Inst. Fr. Pét. 40 (1985) 563-579
12. 13C measurements as indicator of carbon flow in marine and freshwater ecosystems. Contrib. Mar. Sci. 27 (1984) 13-47
13. Frey M., and Robinson M. Low-Grade Metamorphism. first ed. (1999), Blackwell Science, Oxford
14. Gao S., Zhang H.F., Gu X.M., Xie X.L., Gao C.L., and Gua X.M. Silurian-Devonian provenance changes of South Qinling basin: implication for accretion of the Yangtze (South China) to the North China Cratons. Tectonophysics 250 (1995) 183-197
15. Glikson M., Taylor D., and Morris D. Lower Palaeozoic and Precambrian petroleum source rocks and coalification path of alginite. Org. Geochem. 18 (1992) 881-897
16. Hayes J.M., Takigiku R., Ocampo R., Callot H.J., and Albrecht P. Isotopic compositions and probable origins of organic molecules in Eocene Messel shale. Nature 329 (1987) 48-51
17. Hilgard S., and Kříbek B. Experimental low-temperature oxidation of organic matter from coal-mine spoil banks in Czech Republic: changes in IR-spectra and elemental composition. Acta Univ. Carol., Environ. 11 (1997) 35-54
18. Hsu K.J., Wang Q., Li J., Zhou D., and Sun S. Tectonic evolution of Qinling Mountains, China. Eclogae Geol. Helv. 80 (1987) 735-752
19. Hutton A.C., and Hower J.C. Cannel coals: implications for classification and terminology. Int. J. Coal Geol. 41 (1999) 157-188
20. Jehlička J., Urban O., and Pokorný J. Raman spectroscopy of carbon and solid bitumens in sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. - Part A: molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy. Spectrochim. Acta 59 (2003) 2341-2352
21. Kremer B., and Kazmierczak J. Cyanobacterial mats from silurian black radiolarian cherts: phototrophic life at the edge of darkness?. J. Sediment. Res. 75 (2005) 897-906
22. Kříbek B., Hrabal J., Landais P., and Hladíková J. The association of poorly ordered graphite, coke and bitumens in greenschist facies rocks of the Poniklá Group, Lugicum, Czech Republic: the result of graphitisation of various types of carbonaceous matter. J. Metamorph. Geol. 12 (1994) 493-503
23. Koch J. Organic petrographic investigations of the Kupferschiefer in northern Germany. Int. J. Coal Geol. 33 (1997) 301-316
24. Koch J. Upper limits for vitrinite and bituminite reflectance as coalification parameters. Int. J. Coal Geol. 33 (1997) 169-173
25. Lewan M.D. Stable carbon isotopes of amorphous kerogen from Phanerozoic sedimentary rocks. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 50 (1986) 1583-1591
26. Li Y.Y. Proterozoic phosphorite-regional review: China. In: Cook P., and Shergord J.H. (Eds). Phosphates of the World, Proterozoic and Cambrian Phosphorite (1986), Willey, New York 42-62
27. Lott D.A., and Coveney J.M. Fluid inclusion evidence for the origins of organic-rich Chinese nickel-molybdenum ores. Abstract of 30th IGS, 8-14 August, Beijing vol. 2 (1996) 713
28. Lott D.A., Coveney R.M., Murowchick J.B., and Grauch R.I. Sedimentary exhalative nickel-molybdenum ores in South China. Econ. Geol. 94 (1999) 1051-1066
29. Mao J.W., Lehmann B., Du A.D., Zhang G.D., Ma A.D., Wang Y.T., Zeng M.G., and Kerrich R. Re-Os dating of polymetallic Ni-Mo-PGE-Au mineralization in lower Cambrian black shales of south China and its geological significance. Econ. Geol. 97 (2002) 1037-1051
30. Mattauer M., Matte P., Malavieille J., Tapponnier P., Maluski H., Xu Z.Q., Lu Y.L., and Tang Y.Q. Tectonics of the Qinling Belt: build-up and evolution of eastern Asia. Nature 317 (1985) 495-500
31. McKirdy D.M., and Hahn J.D. The composition of kerogens and hydrocarbons in Precambrian rocks. In: Holland H.D., and Schidlowski M. (Eds). Mineral Deposits and the Evolution of the Biosphere (1982), Springer, Berlin 123-154
32. Monthioux M., and Landais P. Natural and artificial maturation of a coal series: Infrared spectrometry study. Energy Fuels 2 (1988) 794-801
33. Murowchick J.B., Coveney R.M., Grauch R.I., Eldridge C.S., and Shelton K.L. Cyclic variations of sulphur isotopes in Cambrian stratabound Ni-Mo-(PGE-Au) ores of southern China. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 58 (1994) 1813-1823
34. Obermajer M., Fowler M.G., and Snowdon L.R. Depositional environment and oil generation in Ordovician source rocks from southwestern Ontario, Canada: organic geochemical and petrological approach. Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Bull. 83 (1999) 1426-1453
35. Orberger B., Wagner C., Vymazalová A., Pašava J., and Kříbek B. Rare metals sequestration and mobility in mineralized black shales from the Zunzi region, South China. In: Mao J., and Bierlein F.P. (Eds). Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge. Proceedings of the Eighth Biennial SGA Meeting Bejing (2005), Springer, Berlin 169-170
36. Orberger B., Vymazalová A., Wagner C., Fialin M., Gallien J.P., Wirth R., Pašava J., and Montagnac G. Biogenic origin of intergrown Mo-sulphide- and carbonaceous matter in Lower Cambrian black shales (Zunyi Formation, southern China). Chem. Geol. 238 (2007) 213-231
37. Pašava J., Kříbek B., Žák K., Vymazalova A., Deng H., Luo T., Li Ch., and Zeng M. New data on the origin of Lower Cambrian Mo-Ni-PGE black shales in Guizhou Province, south China. Proc. 32nd IGC, Florence (2004) A189-15
38. Peters K.E. Guidelines for evaluation source rocks using programmed pyrolysis. Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Bull. 70 (1986) 318-329
39. org in Devonian-Mississipian black shales. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs vol. 35 (2003) 6a
40. Round F.E. The Ecology of Algae (1981), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
41. Rouxhlet P.G., Robin P.L., and Nicaise G. Characterisation of kerogens and of their evolution by infrared spectroscopy. In: Durand B. (Ed). Kerogen, Insoluble Organic Matter from Sedimentary Rocks (1980), Téchnip, Paris 164-190
42. Schoell M. Recent advantage in petroleum isotope geochemistry. Org. Geochem. 10 (1984) 1009-1104
43. Schoell M. Stable isotopes in petroleum research. In: Brooks J., and Welte D. (Eds). Advances in Petroleum Geochemistry vol. l (1984), Academic Press, New York 215-245
44. Socrat G. Infrared Characteristics Group Frequencies (1980), John Wiley and Sons, Chichester
45. Steiner M., Wallis E., Erdtmann B.D., Zhao Y.L., and Yang R.D. Submarine-hydrothermal exhalative ore layers in black shales from South China and associated fossils - insights into a Lower Cambrian facies and bio-evolution. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 169 (2001) 165-191
46. Taylor G.H., Liu S.Y., and Teichmüller M. Bituminite - a TEM view. Int. J. Coal Geol. 18 (1991) 71-85
47. Taylor G.H., Teichmüller M., Davis A., Diessel C.F.K., Littke R., and Robert P. Organic Petrology (1998), Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin
48. Teichmüller M. U{double acute}ber neue Macerale der Liptinit-Gruppe und die Entstehung von Micrinit. Fortschr. Geol. Rheinl. Westfal. 24 (1974) 37-64
49. Teichmüller A. The genesis of coal from the viewpoint of coal petrology. Int. J. Coal Geol. 12 (1989) 1-87
50. Teichmüller M., and Ottenjann K. Art und Diagenese von Liptiniten und lipoiden Stoffen in einem Erdölmuttergestein auf Grund fluoreszenzmikroskopischer Untersuchungen. Erdöl Kohle 30 (1977) 387-398
51. Teichmüller M., Teichmüller R., and Weber M. Inkohlung und Illit-Krystallinitat (Vergleichende Untersuchungen im Mesozoikum und Palaeozoikum von Westfalen). Fortschr. Geol. Rheinl. Westfal. 27 (1979) 201-276
52. Tuinstra F., and Koenig J.L. Raman spectrum of graphite. J. Chem. Phys. 3 (1970) 1126
53. Van Krevelen D.W. Coal (1993), Elsevier, Amsterdam
54. Volkman J.K., and Maxwell J.R. Acyclic isoprenoids as biological markers. In: Johns R.B. (Ed). Biological Markers in the Sedimentary Records (1986), Elsevier, Amsterdam 1-42
55. Wang S., Yang J., Meng D., Gong S., Lin Q., and Qiun S. Sequence stratigraphy of the Loushanguan Formation in the boundary area between Hunan and Guizhou, China. Geol. Rev. (Dizhi Lunping) 46 (2000) 295-300 (in Chinese with English abstract)
56. Xiao X., Wilkins R.W.T., Lin D., Lin Z., and Fu J. Investigation of thermal maturity of Lower Palaeozoic hydrocarbon source rocks by means of vitrinite-like maceral reflectance - a Tarim Basin case sudy. Org. Geochem. 31 (2000) 1041-1052