Costras ferromanganesíferas pelágicas inducidas por comunidades bentónicas microbianas en el límite Jurásico Medio-Superior (Subbçetico Externo, provincia de Córdoba)

  1. Molina Cámara, José Miguel
  2. Reolid, Matías
Journal:
Geogaceta

ISSN: 0213-683X

Year of publication: 2010

Issue: 48

Pages: 59-62

Type: Article

More publications in: Geogaceta

Abstract

A hardground with Fe-Mn crusts of an important Middle-Upper Jurassic stratigraphic discontinuity in the External Subbetic has been analysed. These are mainly hydrogenetic-biogenic crusts induced by the activity of benthic microbial communities. The main organisms realted with the Fe-Mn mineralization are probably fungi. The pelagic swells of the External Subbetic were a favourable environment for the development of authigenic mineralizations mainly by a very low rate of sedimentation and the existence of submarine volcanic processes in the neighboring Median Subbetic.