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[ES] Presentamos un sistema hasta ahora no documentado de depósitos asociados con antiguas surgencias de fluidos hidrotermales en un medio de plataforma somera, a través de fallas sinsedimentarias activas durante las últimas fases del rifting cretácico de la cuenca Vasco-Cantábrica. En este medio se formaron edificios de carbonatos y otros productos (quimiohermos) que fueron colonizados por comunidades bentónicas quimiosintéticas específicas. Estos edificios presentan dimensiones de hasta 8 m de altura y 20 m de anchura, y están constituidos por una matriz de micrita enrrojecida, micrita peloidal, hematites, ankerita y dolomita sobre la que colonizan esponjas, gusanos poliquetos, foraminíferos incrustantes y bivalvos litófagos. Es frecuente observar grandes poblaciones de gusanos poliquetos embebidos en una matriz de hematites. La actividad de bacterias quimiosintéticas y la presencia de grandes cantidades de Fe disuelto en el agua pudieron favorecer la precipitación de estos depósitos. La precipitación de dolomita, ankerita y óxidos de Fe y la ocurrencia de fauna quimiosintética sugieren el escape de fluidos a lo largo del sistema de fallas sinsedimentarias
[EN] Here, we present evidence of a previously unidentified type of hydrothermal vent system active in shallow water during continental rifting and supporting carbonate mound formation with chemosynthetic communities. The studied group of vent sites (Late Aptian-Early Albian) crop out in an excellent sea-cliff exposure along the cost near Santander. Carbonate mounds, up to 8 m high and 20 m wide, are made of red-stained micrite, bacterially induced peloidal micrite, hematite, ankerite and dolomite that provided hard substrates to settle larvae of sponges, tubeworms, encrusting forams and lithofaga bivalves. Large clusters of worm tubes are found embedded in a matrix of Fe-oxide biofilms stromatolites that may result from in situ activity of neutrophilic Fe-oxidizing bacteria. The interaction between chemosynthetic bacteria and high amounts of dissolved ferrous iron in the seawater could lead to iron mineral precipitation. Precipitation of syndepositional dolomite, ankerite and Fe-oxides in the carbonate mounds, and the mass-occurrence of chemosynthetic fauna may be considered as indicators of hydrothermal venting along the synsedimentary fault system
VII Congreso Geológico de España, 14-18 julio 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.-- 4 pages, 1 figure
Peer reviewed
Hydrothermal vents, Rifting, Fe-stromatolites, Estromatolitos de Fe, Lower Cretaceous, Cretácico Inferior, Carbonate mounds, Descargas hidrotermales, Montículos carbonatados
Hydrothermal vents, Rifting, Fe-stromatolites, Estromatolitos de Fe, Lower Cretaceous, Cretácico Inferior, Carbonate mounds, Descargas hidrotermales, Montículos carbonatados
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