A Neogene cold seep carbonate body crops out in the Crotone Basin and is characterized by a Conduit facies, made of authigenic carbonates filling the gas/ fluid escaping pipes and a Pavement facies made of early-cemented bioclastic and siliciclastic sediments colonized by a chemo-symbiotic fauna dominated by Lucinid bivalves. The conduit facies is composed of alternated mm-thick dark micritic and clear sparitic lamine rimming and inward accreting open fissures. Micrite exhibits microbial peloidal to dendrolitic fabrics, while sparry laminae shows prismatic-pyramidal to anhedral-subhedral crystals. The pavement facies is made of microbial boundstones, bioturbated mudstone/wackestones and packstone/grainstones passing into mixed arenites, all interbedded with synsedimentary breccias due to local overpressure conditions because of gas/fluid injections. Planktonic foraminifera are widespread and suggest a deep-water setting. Stable Isotopes analysis in all the facies shows 13C depletion (δ13C values between -6.8 and -38‰) and 18O enrichment (δ18O values between -0.04 to 3.4‰) reflecting destabilization of gas hydrates made of methane/crude oil mix.

Neogene cold seep carbonates in the Crotone Basin (South Italy)

Mario Borrelli
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Bruno Francesco Umbro;Pierluigi Santagati;Emilia Le Pera;Edoardo Perri
2023-01-01

Abstract

A Neogene cold seep carbonate body crops out in the Crotone Basin and is characterized by a Conduit facies, made of authigenic carbonates filling the gas/ fluid escaping pipes and a Pavement facies made of early-cemented bioclastic and siliciclastic sediments colonized by a chemo-symbiotic fauna dominated by Lucinid bivalves. The conduit facies is composed of alternated mm-thick dark micritic and clear sparitic lamine rimming and inward accreting open fissures. Micrite exhibits microbial peloidal to dendrolitic fabrics, while sparry laminae shows prismatic-pyramidal to anhedral-subhedral crystals. The pavement facies is made of microbial boundstones, bioturbated mudstone/wackestones and packstone/grainstones passing into mixed arenites, all interbedded with synsedimentary breccias due to local overpressure conditions because of gas/fluid injections. Planktonic foraminifera are widespread and suggest a deep-water setting. Stable Isotopes analysis in all the facies shows 13C depletion (δ13C values between -6.8 and -38‰) and 18O enrichment (δ18O values between -0.04 to 3.4‰) reflecting destabilization of gas hydrates made of methane/crude oil mix.
2023
cold seep, gas hydrate, chemo-symbiotic fauna, Lucinids, overpressure, conduit, pavement
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