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PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE
卷 95, 期 -, 页码 84-93出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2013.05.008
关键词
Filamentous microbial fossil; Pumpellyite; Phengite; Early Jurassic accretionary complex; Low-grade metamorphosed basalt; Northern Chichibu Belt; Central Shikoku
资金
- Research Assistance of Faculty of Science in Ehime University
- Research Grants in the Natural Sciences of the Mitsubishi Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24540492] Funding Source: KAKEN
The past two decades have seen the reporting of microbial fossils within ancient oceanic basalts that could be identical to microbes within modern basalts. Here, we present new petrographic, mineralogical, and stable isotopic data for metabasalts containing filamentous structures in a Jurassic accretionary complex within the northern Chichibu Belt of the Yanadani area of central Shikoku, Japan. Mineralized filaments within these rocks are present in interstitial domains filled with calcite, pumpellyite, or quartz, and consist of iron oxide, phengite, and pumpellyite. delta C-13(PDB) values for filament-bearing calcite within these metabasalts vary from -2.49 parts per thousand to 0.67 parts per thousand. A biogenic origin for these filamentous structures is indicated by (1) the geological context of the Yanadani metabasalt, (2) the morphology of the filaments, (3) the carbon isotope composition of carbonates that host the filaments, and (4) the timing of formation of these filaments relative to the timing of low-grade metamorphism in a subduction zone. The putative microorganisms that formed these filaments thrived between eruption (Late Paleozoic) and accretion (Early Jurassic) of the basalt. The data presented here indicate that cryptoendolithic life was present within water-filled vesicles in pre-Jurassic intraplate basalts. The mineralogy of the filaments reflects the low-grade metamorphic recrystallization of authigenic microbial clays similar to those formed by the encrustation of prokaryotes in modern iron-rich environments. These findings suggest that a previously unusual niche for life is present within intraplate volcanic rocks in accretionary complexes. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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