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Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology
Vol. 32 (1984), No. 2. (June), Pages 190-200

Biological Factors in the Formation of Quiet-Water Ooids

Brian Jones, Q.H. Goodbody

ABSTRACT

Ooids in the Pleistocene Ironshore Formation of Grand Cayman Island generally have large nuclei and a thin cortex. The morphology, composition and texture of the nuclei suggest that they originated as pellets, proably from the burrowing shrimp Callianassa. Evidence, including the presence of spherulites in the ooid nuclei, suggests that bacteria may have played an important role in the initial lithification of the pellets and the subsequent development of oolitic films around the pellets. The ooids are considered to be quiet-water ooids akin to those at present forming in Bimini Lagoon.

Many of the ooids are incorporated in the walls of Ophiomorpha, a burrow system possibly formed by the shrimp Callianassa. Included in the wall structures of the Ophiomorpha are double pellet structures. The setting of ooids in wall structures suggests that some of the ooids formed below the sediment-water interface.

FACTEURS BIOLOGIQUES DANS LA FORMATION DES OOIDES DANS LES EAUX CALMES

RESUME

Les ooides de la Formation d'Ironshore de l'ile Grand Cayman ont generalement des nucleides larges et un cortex peu epais. La morphologie, la composition et la texture des nucleides suggerent qu'ils sont origines comme des pellets, probablement des ecrevisses forantes Callianassa.

L'evidence, la presence des spherulites dans les nucleides des ooides incluse, suggere que des bacteries ont joue un role important dans la lithification initiale des pellets et le developpement subsequent des films oolitiques autour des pellets.

Les ooides sont consideres comme etant des ooides des eaux calmes similaires de ceux qui se forment a present dans la Lagune de Bimini.

Beaucoup des ooides sont incorpores dans les murs d'Ophiomorpha, un systeme de forages peut-etre forme par l'ecrevisse Callianassa. Aussi inclus dans les structures des murs d'Ophiomorpha sont des structures de pellets doubles.

L'incorporation des ooides dans les structures des murs suggere que certaines ooides se formaient en dessous de l'interface sediment et eau.

Traduit par G. van Doorne


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