J 2010

Alluvial and volcanic pathways to silicified plant stems (Upper Carboniferous-Triassic) and their taphonomic and palaeoenvironmental meaning

MATYSOVÁ, Petra, Ronny ROESLLER, Jens GOETZE, Jaromír LEICHMANN, Gordon FORBES et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Alluvial and volcanic pathways to silicified plant stems (Upper Carboniferous-Triassic) and their taphonomic and palaeoenvironmental meaning

Name in Czech

Aluviální a vulkanický mechanismus silicifikace rostliných kmenů.

Authors

MATYSOVÁ, Petra (203 Czech Republic), Ronny ROESLLER (276 Germany), Jens GOETZE (276 Germany), Jaromír LEICHMANN (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Gordon FORBES (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Edith TAYLOR (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Jakub SAKALA (203 Czech Republic) and Tomas GRYGAR (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2010, 0031-0182

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10500 1.5. Earth and related environmental sciences

Country of publisher

Netherlands

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.390

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/10:00047191

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

UT WoS

000279489200010

Keywords (in Czech)

Křemen;moganit;prostřědí;fosilní dřevo;katodová luminiscence;provenience

Keywords in English

Quartz; Moganite; Environment; Fossil wood; Cathodoluminescence; Provenance analysis
Změněno: 28/4/2011 14:24, prof. RNDr. Jaromír Leichmann, Dr. rer. nat.

Abstract

V originále

: Petrographic imaging, in combination with qualitative and quantitative instrumental analyses of mineral mass, allow us to obtain material signatures of silicified plant stems that are relatively common in sediments of continental basins since the late Palaeozoic. These fossils can be found in their original strata but commonly have been removed from their environmental and stratigraphic context, redeposited, and scattered on the recent land surface after erosion of the parent rocks Analytical data gathered from X-ray diffraction analysis, hot cathodoluminescence (CL) imaging and spectroscopy. electron microprobe analysis, Raman spectrometry, and polarised light microscopy serve to characterise material signatures of samples from basins in Brazil. Germany, the Czech Republic, Sultanate of Oman, Mongolia, Antarctica, France, and the USA This collection includes silicified Pennsylvanian and Permian plant taxa (and a few from the Triassic) found in fluvial environments and sites influenced by volcanism with the purpose to discern fundamental material characteristics formed under particular environmental circumstances. Late Pennsylvanian and Permian silicified stems in fluvial rocks include the presence of well-crystalline quartz (alpha-SiO2), sometimes with a trace of kaolinite, showing weak CL (mostly blue or dark reddish), occasional mosaic or patchy preservation of anatomical details, and other signs of pressure distortion of wet trunks in fluvial deposits and subsequent diagenetic recrystallisation The presumed silica source for the initial stage of silicification was weathering of labile minerals, mostly feldspars in the alluvium. In wood from aeolian deposits, moganite in combination with goethite was detected Based on our results, we propose that the stems were silicified in sandy or gravelly fluvial deposits, most frequently in arkoses and arkosic sands, indicators of relatively warns climate with pronounced seasonal distribution of precipitation Excluded from this interpretation are steins silicified primarily by volcanic material, these are distinguished by a higher species diversity, silicification close to the site of growth, miscellaneous mineralogy, usually with very colourful CL shades, and the presence of metastable forms of SiO2. opal-CT or moganite This volcanic influence on silicification mode is less clearly controlled by seasonality of precipitation or palaeoclimate

In Czech

Křemen;moganit;prostřědí;fosilní dřevo;katodová luminiscence;provenience, studium prostředí fosilizace dřev jak je reflektováno v CL

Links

MSM0021622412, plan (intention)
Name: Interakce mezi chemickými látkami, prostředím a biologickými systémy a jejich důsledky na globální, regionální a lokální úrovni (INCHEMBIOL) (Acronym: INCHEMBIOL)
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Interactions among the chemicals, environment and biological systems and their consequences on the global, regional and local scales (INCHEMBIOL)