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LITHOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES
Volume 52, Issue 2, Pages 111-124Publisher
MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA/SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1134/S0024490217020031
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- Program for Basic Research of the Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences [15-18-5-47, 15-18-5-42]
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The paper presents the lithological, mineralogical, and geochemical characteristics of the composition, structure, and organic matter of siderite nodules and host mudstones in the Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian-Visean) siderite-bearing sequence exposed along the Kozhym River on the western slope of the Subpolar Urals. The obtained results revealed that organic matter in the mudstones is dominated by C-16 and C(18)n-alkanes, suggesting a significant microbial activity in the sedimentation environment. The formation of nodules was promoted by the activity of diverse bacterial communities, the abundance of which was related to processes of methanogenesis in bottom sediments owing to gaseous fluid seepages that promote the saturation of sediments with methane and the flourishment of bacterial colonies. Such processes in a marine basin led to the local freshening or some salinization of water and the development of euxinic setting and specific bacteria. Consequently, siderite nodules therein are marked by bacteriomorphic textures and specific authigenic mineralization (framboidal pyrite, sphalerite, galena, sulfoselenides, and tellurides). Bacteria utilized the substrate of the redeposited weathered crust, resulting in a large-scale formation of the nodular siderite.
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