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Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France; July 2005; v. 176; no. 4; p. 355-361; DOI: 10.2113/176.4.355
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Microbially mediated phosphatization in the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Lagerstätte, South China

Benoìt Hubert1, J. Javier Álvaro2,3 and Jun-Yuan Chen4

1 Laboratoire de Paléontologie et Paléogéographie du Paléozoïque, UMR 8014 CNRS, FUPL/ISA, 13 rue de Toul, 59046 Lille, France. benhubert{at}free.fr
2 Dpto. Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain.
3 LP3, UMR 8014 CNRS, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France. Jose-Javier.Alvaro{at}univ-lille1.fr
4 Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Academia Sinica, Nanjing 210008 China, and Early Life Research Center, 18 Wenmiao Street, Cheng-jiang, Yunnan, 652500 China. cjchen{at}yx.yn.cninfo.net

Detailed petrographic and geochemical studies of pore-filling cements and replaced (epigenic) membranes of some organic-walled microorganisms preserved in the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Lagerstätte (China) are based on an energy dispersive system (EDS) of elemental mapping attached to backscattered MEB. Their microcrystalline apatite (collophane) occurs predominantly as phosphatized microbial pseudomorphs: phosphatic crusts of chasmolithic bio-films (or microstromatolites) and globular clusters occur lining intraparticular porosities. Three major pre-compactional cement types are identified on algal thalli, embryos and vase-shaped microfossils: epigenic collophane (by replacement of membranes), polyphasic filling of collophane and crystalline apatite and fluorapatite within intraparticular porosities (some of them microbially mediated), and latest carbonate precipitation filling the remaining intraparticular porosities (preserved at present as dedolomitized calcite). P2O5 concentration has a clear peak in the microbial pseudomorphs and uniformly low concentrations elsewhere, whereas MgO, Na2O, K2O and SiO2 show a slight increase in concentration through successive cements. These geochemical trends evidence a slight change of pore fluids accompanied by a final rise in pH, presumably following the main interval of decay, which favoured precipitation of CaCO3 postdating that of apatite.

Key Words: Microbialites • Diagenesis • Apatite • Lagerstätte • Neoproterozoic • China






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