Multifractal characterization of microbially induced magnesian calcite formation in Recent tidal flat sediments

Abstract Structures resulting from biogenic carbonate cementation of microbial mats in Recent siliciclastic tidal flat sediments of the North Sea are analyzed quantitatively by a novel combination of scanning electron microscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry (SEM/EDX) imaging and subsequent multifractal analysis. Evaluation of calcium distribution patterns and their links to sediment-intrinsic mineralization processes show that the applied geometrical technique is an efficient tool for detecting microscopic variations in elemental distributions and related minerals within sedimentary matrices. Two main conclusions can be drawn: (i) magnesian calcite is a rapidly formed product of the early diagenesis of organic matter in Recent bioactive marine sediments; and (ii) multifractal spectra are measures for the spatial inhomogeneity of authigenic calcification processes acting on the sedimentary structure. This implies that elemental distribution patterns in a sedimentary system are scale-independent phenomena. Processes causing such patterns have occurred over certain periods with varying rates and on different scales. The detection of multifractal measures also opens a way towards a systematic survey of dynamic processes occurring in sedimentary structures.

• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  Oceanographic Literature Review

• Publication date

  1997-03-01

• Fields of study

  Geology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/S0037-0738(96)00059-0
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