Paleoproterozoic Underwater Volcanism and Microfossil-Like Structures in the Metasedimentary Siliceous Rocks, Hogland Island, Russia

Anatoly M. Belyaev

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Anatoly M. Belyaev. Paleoproterozoic Underwater Volcanism and Microfossil-Like Structures in the Metasedimentary Siliceous Rocks, Hogland Island, Russia. Journal of Earth Science, 2018, 29(6): 1431-1442. doi: 10.1007/s12583-018-0883-4

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Anatoly M. Belyaev. Paleoproterozoic Underwater Volcanism and Microfossil-Like Structures in the Metasedimentary Siliceous Rocks, Hogland Island, Russia. Journal of Earth Science, 2018, 29(6): 1431-1442. doi: 10.1007/s12583-018-0883-4

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Paleoproterozoic Underwater Volcanism and Microfossil-Like Structures in the Metasedimentary Siliceous Rocks, Hogland Island, Russia

doi: 10.1007/s12583-018-0883-4

Anatoly M. Belyaev^,

Institute of Earth Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia

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Corresponding author: Anatoly M. Belyaev
Received Date: 05 Dec 2016
Accepted Date: 20 Sep 2017
Publish Date: 01 Dec 2018

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Geological surveys showed that rhyolite and basalt strata with pillow structures typical for underwater volcanism form sheets over the Svecofennian basement. Original geochemical and isotope-geochemical data confirmed that the rhyolites were formed contemporaneously with the ra-pakivi granites of the Wiborg Massif (1 640 Ma), and the basalts are similar to gabbro-anorthosites. Abnormally high content of K₂O and relatively low content of Na₂O in rhyolites and basalts are interpreted as a result of hydrothermal interaction of eruptive magmas with K-enriched hot seawater. The strata of siliceous metasedimentary rocks (microquartzites) within basaltic and rhyolitic lavas were formed in processes of chemogenic sedimentation and subsequent contact metamorphism during underwater volcanism. Microquartzites showed carbon vastly depleted of heavy isotope ¹³C. This is typical for rocks formed with participation of living substance. The Raman spectra of the remaining carbon-containing substance have graphite bands. In the microquartzites among basalts and rhyolites we found a community of structures with external and internal morphology similar to modern or fossilized marine microorganisms:spiral cyanobacterias, amoebas, diatoms, foraminifers, virus capsids, flagellates and multicellular organisms. It is assumed that these silificated and ferruginizated microfossils represent the Paleoproterozoic community of marine microorganisms.
- submarine volcanism,
- siliceous rocks,
- silification,
- Paleoproterozoic microfossils,
- carbon isotopes

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