Depositional condition of Paleoproterozoic Francevillian carbonate rocks revisited from rare earth element contents

Abstract

The Paleoproterozoic Francevillian Group in the eastern Gabonese Republic has been recently attracting increasing attention because it includes distinctive macroscopic structures interpreted as eukaryotic fossils. Therefore, its depositional setting and associated redox conditions need to be clearly understood. To clarify these, petrological studies and rare earth element (REE) abundances of carbonate rocks of the Francevillian Group in the Lastoursville basin were determined with ICP-MS coupled with a laser ablation sampling technique. Detailed microscopic observations indicate that dolostones in this basin underwent the complicated diagenetic history, including sparitization, decomposition of organic matter, reduction of ferromanganese oxides, silicification, and later calcification. The dolostones of lower Francevillian B (FB) Formation show heterogeneous textures formed by alterations during diagenesis. By the alterations, changes of REE abundances and degrees of positive Y anomalies appear to have occurred. This indicates that REE signatures in carbonate rocks can vary during diagenesis. Characteristically high Mn contents in the dolostones of upper FB Formation were derived from the reduction of ferromanganese oxides in sediments. The signatures of REE abundance in dolostones can be explained by the mixing of seawater and ferromanganese oxide components. In that sense, the dolostones inherited the trace element characteristics of precursor ferromanganese oxides even after the diagenesis. Y/Ho values of the most primary parts of each sample exceed 33, the newly determined threshold value for marine carbonate rocks based on our compilation. The magnitude of the La anomaly values also falls within the range of that of Holocene reefal microbialites. These indicate that a precursor of the dolostone of the Francevillian Group was deposited in a marine environment. In addition, presence of Ce anomalies in the upper FB Formation suggests that the Paleoproterozoic ocean was oxidized to such an extent as for Ce to be preferentially absorbed by ferromanganese oxides.

Keywords

Carbonate diagenesis / Francevillian Group / LA-ICP-MS / Seawater composition / Y/Ho fractionation

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Dongsheng Cai: Writing – review & editing, Methodology. Ghazala Aziz: Conceptualization, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft. Suleman Sarwar: Supervision. Majid Ibrahim Alsaggaf: Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software. Avik Sinha: Supervision, Writing - review & editing.

Declaration of Competing Interest

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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