Geomicrobiological Properties and Processes of Travertine
With a Focus on Japanese Sites
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Open AccessFrom desert to monsoon: irreversible climatic transition at ~ 36 Ma in southeastern Tibetan Plateau
Although there is increasing evidence for wet, monsoonal conditions in Southeast Asia during the late Eocene, it has not been clear when this environment became established. Cenozoic sedimentary sequences cons...
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Open AccessLast glacial temperature reconstructions using coupled isotopic analyses of fossil snails and stalagmites from archaeological caves in Okinawa, Japan
We applied a new geoarchaeological method with two carbonate archives, which are fossil snails from Sakitari Cave and stalagmites from Gyokusen Cave, on Okinawa Island, Japan, to reconstruct surface air temper...
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Open AccessCarbonate clumped isotope thermometry of fault rocks and its possibilities: tectonic implications from calcites within Himalayan Frontal Fold-Thrust Belt
Disentangling the temperature and depth of formation of fault rocks is critical for understanding their rheology, exhumation, and the evolution of fault zones. Estimation of fault rock temperatures mostly reli...
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Open AccessStalagmite evidence for East Asian winter monsoon variability and 18O-depleted surface water in the Japan Sea during the last glacial period
In the East Asian monsoon area, stalagmites generally record lower and higher oxygen isotope (δ18O) levels during warm humid interglacial and cold dry glacial periods, respectively. Here, we report unusually low ...
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Concluding Remarks
For better understanding of the processes involved in the travertine development, it is essential to know the basic chemical principles (Chap. 2), the sedimentolog...
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Introduction
Stone of light yellow color, sometimes laminated and porous, is often found on wall material. The word travertine in general means such kind of limestone material. It was derived from lapis tiburtinus that means ...
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Sedimentology of Travertine
Sediment bodies of travertine exhibit unique geomorphology that results from its rapid sedimentation rate. As described in Chap. 2 and will be discussed in Chap. ...
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Geomicrobiological Processes for Laminated Textures
A laminated deposit is a record of cyclic changes of physical, geochemical, and microbiological conditions. The laminated pattern is often quite regular. In lacustrine verves, regular seasonal changes in weath...
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Travertines in Japan
In this chapter, we describe several representative travertine sites in the Japanese islands. According to our extensive search, there are at least 30 hot springs that developed calcareous deposits (Fig. 7.1, ...
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Basic Knowledge of Geochemical Processes
Travertines (or thermogene travertines in Pentecost 2005) are formed from hydrothermal water with an initial high concentration of Ca2+ and CO2 partial pressure (Ford and Pedley 1996; Gandin and Capezzuoli 2008, ...
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Methods
Because the travertine is a product associated with geological, physical, chemical, and microbiological conditions, comprehensive understanding of its formational processes requires a wide range of analyses wi...
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Geochemical Model for Rapid Carbonate Precipitation of Travertines
In the last chapter, we demonstrate the daily processes of the sub-mm-scale lamination. When favorable geochemical and hydrological conditions sustain, travertine can grow at a rate of tens of centimeters per ...
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Open AccessCyanobacterial exopolymer properties differentiate microbial carbonate fabrics
Although environmental changes and evolution of life are potentially recorded via microbial carbonates, including laminated stromatolites and clotted thrombolites, factors controlling their fabric are still a ...
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Quaternary primary productivity in Porcupine Seabight, NE North Atlantic
Biogenic opal and calcium carbonate contents in the Quaternary fine-grained sediments in the deep sea coral mound area (Hole U1317E and Hole U1318B drilled by IODP Expedition 307) in Porcupine Seabight, southw...
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Tufa, Freshwater
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Microbial Control on Lamina Formation in a Travertine of Crystal Geyser, Utah
Travertines – carbonates mostly precipitated in situ from calcareous hot-spring water – often show stromatolitic lamination which has been interpreted as daily banding (Folk et al. 1985; Guo and Riding 1992; P...
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Composition and spatial distribution of microencrusters and microbial crusts in upper Jurassic–lowermost Cretaceous reef limestone (Torinosu Limestone, southwest Japan)
Tethyan microencrusters and microbial crusts, most of them previously unknown in Japanese Mesozoic biotas, are present in the uppermost Jurassic–lowermost Cretaceous Torinosu Limestone distributed in southwest...
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Facies and depositional conditions of a carbonate mound (Tithonian-berriasian, SW-Japan)
Macro- and microlithology of a carbonate mound, at least 300–350 m wide and about 70–80 m thick, of Tithonian (latest Jurassic) to Berriasian (earliest Cretaceous) age was studied in Hitotsubuchi quarry on Shi...
