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Journal of Sedimentary Research; January 2006; v. 76; no. 1; p. 81-90; DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2006.05
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Research Articles: Carbonate Sedimentology

Lithified and Unlithified Mg-Calcite Precipitates in Tropical Reef Environments

Ian G. Macintyre1 and Richard B. Aronson2

1 Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560 U.S.A.; macintyr{at}si.edu
2 Dauphin Island Sea Lab, 101 Bienville Boulevard, Dauphin Island, Alabama 36528 U.S.A.; Department of Marine Sciences, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama 36688 U.S.A.

Push cores from the branching-coral framework of lagoonal reefs in Belize and Panama indicate that the micritic Mg-calcite in the unlithified mud matrix is similar in composition to the well documented submarine lithified micritic crusts and infillings found in open reef framework. The sediment matrix of the lagoonal framework contains significant concentrations of 12 to 13 mole % MgCO3 calcite that shows almost no signs of skeletal origins, as indicated by a fairly consistent mineralogy and independent distribution patterns in sand-, silt-, and clay-size fractions. Its sedimentological and mineralogical similarity to cemented micritic crusts and infillings suggests that the precipitation of micritic Mg-calcite is widespread in tropical-reef waters and becomes lithified when precipitated in open frameworks but remains unlithified when trapped in impermeable lagoonal muddy sediments.




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