A review of cortical structures of carbonate ooids
Song Wen-Tian1, Liu Jian-Bo1,2
1 School of Earth and Space Sciences,Peking University,Beijing 100871,China; 2 Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution,Ministry of Education(Peking University),Beijing 100871,China
Abstract Carbonate ooids in modern and ancient carbonate sediments have varieties of cortical structures,which have been intensively studied because of its applications in reconstruction of chemical and physical changes of the ancient ocean. Research on cortices of carbonate ooids started in 1879. Since then,the features and origins of primary and secondary cortical structures of modern and ancient ooids have been described in detail and discussed in depth. However,definitions of terms are unclear in the studies on primary cortical structures of modern ooids; the descriptions and classification of primary cortical structures of ancient ooids are also inaccurate and require further determination. This article summarizes previous researches on modern ooids,concludes the types of primary cortical structures and their main features,and points out that the recognition of assemblage types of cortical structures is a key step to the studies on cortical structures. Normal assemblage types of cortical structures include radial,concentric and radial-concentric. Affected by diagenesis,primary cortical structures in ancient ooids may be preserved at different degrees,or totally replaced by secondary structures. Primary cortical structure types preserved in ancient ooids resemble those in modern ooids of which the dominant are radial structure and concentric structure. However,among concentric structures in ancient ooids,the tangential laminae is hard to recognized. Domestic research on ooids has obtained a lot of achievements,some of which however still misrecognized or misused primary cortical structures. On the basis of reference to researches on cortical structures of modern ooids,we take the Lower Ordovician ooids in South China as a case to show how to describe the features of cortical structures of ancient ooids,recognize well-preserved primary cortical structures,and classify the ooids by assemblage types of cortical structures.
Fund:; Financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.8200905161,41221001,41290260)
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Liu Jian-Bo,born in 1966,is a professor at Peking University,engaged in geobiology,sedimentology,and stratigraphy. E-mail: jbliu@pku.edu.cn.
About author: Song Wen-Tian,born in 1994,is a master candidate at Peking University,majors in sedimentology. E-mail: wjswt@pku.edu.cn.
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Song Wen-Tian,Liu Jian-Bo. A review of cortical structures of carbonate ooids[J]. JOPC, 2020, 22(1): 147-160.
Song Wen-Tian,Liu Jian-Bo. A review of cortical structures of carbonate ooids[J]. JOPC, 2020, 22(1): 147-160.
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