The significance of cherts as markers of Ocean Plate Stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental conditions. New insights from the Neoproterozoic–Cambrian Blovice accretionary wedge, Bohemian Massif

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00025798:_____/23:10168328 RIV/00216208:11310/23:10475303

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987122001311?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987122001311?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2022.101478" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.gsf.2022.101478</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The significance of cherts as markers of Ocean Plate Stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental conditions. New insights from the Neoproterozoic–Cambrian Blovice accretionary wedge, Bohemian Massif

Original language description

The Ediacaran to early Cambrian Blovice accretionary complex, Bohemian Massif, hosts abundant chert bodies that formed on an oceanic plate and were involved in subduction beneath the northern margin of Gondwana. Field relationships of cherts to their host, their microstructure and elemental as well as isotopic compositions revealed diverse processes of chert petrogenesis reflecting depositional environment and position on the oceanic plate. The deep-water cherts formed through a hydrothermal precipitation of silica-rich gels on outer trench swell of the subducted slab with none or only minor addition of terrigenous material. On the contrary, the shallow-water cherts formed in lagoons on seamount slopes, and at least some of them represent a product of hydrothermal replacement of former carbonate and/or evaporite precursors. For both chert types, the hydrothermal fluids were of low temperature and continuous pervasive hydrothermal alteration of oceanic crust, together with an elevated Si content in Neoproterozoic seawater, served as the major source of silica. On the other hand, minor carbon enrichment in chert is mostly linked to variable incorporation of organic matter that was deposited on the seafloor. Rare earth element (REE) systematics of the cherts indicate predominantly oxygenated environment for the shallow-water cherts whereas the deep-water cherts were deposited in diverse redox conditions, depending on their distance from hydrothermal vent. Using these data, we demonstrate that the cherts once formed a part of Ocean Plate Stratigraphy (OPS) now dismembered and mixed with terrigenous siliciclastic material to form OPS mélanges. Combining our data with those from the existing literature, we show that cherts can serve as significant markers of OPS since the Archean, recording a complex interplay between seafloor-related volcanic (production of MORB- and OIB-like magmas) and sedimentary processes, hydrothermal activity at mid-ocean ridges and seamount chains as well as at outer slopes of subducting slabs. However, the cherts also exhibit a secular change in composition and petrogenesis most profoundly affected by an overturn in seawater silica cycle across the Precambrian–Phanerozoic boundary.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10505 - Geology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-13644S" target="_blank" >GA20-13644S: Cherts and carbonates as geochemical proxies of paleoenvironmental conditions and Ocean Plate Stratigraphy</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Geoscience Frontiers

ISSN

1674-9871

e-ISSN

1674-9871

Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CN - CHINA

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

101478

UT code for WoS article

000859856300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85138156632