کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5783006 1637515 2017 77 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Microbe-clay interactions as a mechanism for the preservation of organic matter and trace metal biosignatures in black shales
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
تعاملات میکرو-رس به عنوان مکانیسم برای حفظ ماده آلاینده و بیوسیناتورهای ردیابی فلزات در شیل های سیاه
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه علوم زمین و سیارات ژئوشیمی و پترولوژی
چکیده انگلیسی
Organic-rich, fine-grained sedimentary rocks, such as black shales, are important geochemical archives providing information on the evolution of seawater composition and biological activity over the past 3 billion years. While biological productivity and sedimentation rates greatly affect the organic matter content in these rocks, mechanisms linking these two processes remain poorly resolved. Here, we examine the interactions of clay minerals with the marine planktonic cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002. We suggest that clays settling through the water column could influence carbon and trace metal burial in three ways: (1) the interaction of reactive clay surfaces with the bacterial cells increases organic matter deposition via mass increase in a seawater growth medium by several orders of magnitude; (2) reactive bacterial cells become completely encased within a clay shroud, enhancing the preservation potential of this organic matter; and (3) the trace metal content of the biomass buried along with metals sorbed to the clay particles contributes to the trace metal concentrations of the black shale precursor sediments. Significantly, our findings imply that the chemical composition of ancient, organic-rich, fine-grained deposits are not only archives of ancient seawater composition and redox state, but they also provide a record of the degree of biological activity in the water column through geological time.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Chemical Geology - Volume 459, 25 May 2017, Pages 75-90
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