Английская Википедия:Allison Guyot
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Featured article Шаблон:Use British EnglishШаблон:Infobox seamount Allison Guyot (formerly known as Navoceano Guyot) is a tablemount (guyot) in the underwater Mid-Pacific Mountains of the Pacific Ocean. It is a trapezoidal flat mountain rising Шаблон:Convert above the seafloor to a depth of less than Шаблон:Convert, with a summit platform Шаблон:Convert wide. The Mid-Pacific Mountains lie west of Hawaii and northeast of the Marshall Islands, but at the time of their formation were located in the Southern Hemisphere.
The tablemount was probably formed by a hotspot in the present-day Southern Pacific before plate tectonics moved it to its current location. Several hotspots, including the Easter, Marquesas and Society hotspots, may have been involved in the formation of the Mid-Pacific Mountains. Volcanic activity is dated to have occurred circa 111–85 million years ago and formed a volcanic island. Subsequently, carbonate deposition commenced as Allison Guyot subsided and eventually buried the island, forming an atoll-like structure and a carbonate platform. Among other animals, crocodilians lived on Allison Guyot.
The platform emerged above sea level during the Albian and Turonian ages. It drowned about 99 ± 2 million years ago for unknown reasons; possibly a phase of renewed emergence damaged the reefs, or it was located in unfavourable waters. Later, pelagic sedimentation commenced on the seamount and led to the deposition of sediments including limestone, ooze and sand, which bear traces of climatic events and ocean currents.
Name and research history
Allison Guyot is named after E.C. Allison, an oceanographer and paleontologist at the San Diego State College;[1] formerly it was named "Navoceano Guyot".[2] The name "Hamilton Guyot" has also been applied to Allison Guyot but is not correct;[3] Hamilton Guyot is a separate formation in the Mid-Pacific Mountains.[4] The seamount is the source of the Ocean Drilling ProgramШаблон:Efn drill core 865A,Шаблон:Sfn which was bored into the summit platform of Allison GuyotШаблон:Sfn in 1992Шаблон:Sfn but did not reach the volcanic structure of the underwater mountain.Шаблон:Sfn Two other cores 865C and 865B were obtained during the same operation; Allison Guyot is Site 865 Ocean Drilling Program.Шаблон:Sfn These drill cores were part of a larger project to investigate and clarify the history of the flat-topped submarine mountains in the Pacific Ocean.Шаблон:Sfn
Geography and geology
Local setting
Allison Guyot is located in the equatorial Pacific Ocean,Шаблон:Sfn part of the western Mid-Pacific Mountains.Шаблон:Sfn The Mid-Pacific Mountains contain seamounts which were covered by limestones during the Barremian and Albian (circa 129.4 – circa 125 million years ago and circa 113–100.5 million years ago, respectively[5]).Шаблон:Sfn Hawaii lies due east and the Marshall Islands southwest;Шаблон:Sfn Resolution Guyot is 716 kilometres northwest.Шаблон:Sfn
The guyot[3] (also known as tablemount[6]) has an outline resembling a trapezoidШаблон:Sfn and consists of two connected volcanic ridges facing north-northwest to east-northeast.Шаблон:Sfn Its western parts may be a distinct volcano.Шаблон:Sfn The surface platform has dimensions of 35 by 70 kilometres,Шаблон:Sfn with an upwards-doming form 0.3–0.5 kilometres high,Шаблон:Sfn and is covered by large sediment mounds;Шаблон:Sfn the rim surrounding the platform lies at a depth of about 1,650 metres and there is evidence of former reefs.Шаблон:Sfn The structure appears to consist of lagoonal sediments surrounded by a reef,Шаблон:Sfn and the shallowest point of Allison Guyot lies at less than Шаблон:Convert depth below sea level.Шаблон:Sfn Volcanic cones dot the eastern side of the summit plateau.[7] The seamount bears traces of slumping,[8] which on the southeastern side of Allison Guyot has removed part of the platform perimeter.Шаблон:Sfn
The seamount rises 1.5 kilometresШаблон:Sfn above the seafloor. Underneath Allison Guyot, the seafloor is about 130–119 million years old,Шаблон:Sfn and a 128-million year-old magnetic lineation is located nearby.Шаблон:Sfn The Molokai Fracture Zone forms a ridge which passes close to Allison Guyot and intersects with another ridge at the seamount.[9] Tectonically the seamount is part of the Pacific Plate.[3]
Regional setting
The west central and south central Pacific Ocean seafloor contains many guyots of the Mesozoic age that developed in seas shallower than typical of the present-day ocean.Шаблон:Sfn These are submarine mountains which are characterised by a flat top and usually the presence of carbonate platforms that rose above the sea surface during the middle Cretaceous period.Шаблон:Sfn Many of these seamounts were formerly atolls,Шаблон:Sfn though there are some differences to present-day reef systems.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn All these structures originally formed as volcanoes in the Mesozoic ocean.Шаблон:Sfn The crust underneath these volcanoes tends to subside as it cools, and thus the islands and seamounts sink.Шаблон:Sfn Fringing reefs may have developed on the volcanoes, which then became barrier reefs as the volcanoes subside and turn into atolls;Шаблон:Sfn these rims surround lagoons or tidal flats.Шаблон:Sfn Continued subsidence offset by growth of the reefs led to the formation of thick carbonate platforms.[10] Sometimes volcanic activity continued after the formation of the atoll or atoll-like structure, and during episodes where the platforms rose above sea level erosional features such as channels and blue holesШаблон:Efn developed.Шаблон:Sfn Eventually, these platforms drowned for reasons that are often unclear.Шаблон:Sfn
The formation of many such seamounts has been explained with the hotspot theory, which describes the formation of chains of volcanoes that get progressively older along the length of the chain,Шаблон:Sfn with an active volcano only at one end of the system. This volcano lies on a spot of the lithosphere heated from below; as the plate moves the volcano is moved away from the heat source and volcanic activity ceases, producing a chain of volcanoes that become older away from the currently active one.[11]
The "South Pacific Superswell" is a region in the Southern Pacific at the present-day Austral Islands, Cook Islands and Society Islands, where intense volcanic activity was underway during the Cretaceous, and is where the Cretaceous seamounts of the Mid-Pacific Mountains originated. The Easter hotspot, Marquesas hotspot and the Society hotspot may have been involved in the formation of the Mid-Pacific Mountains. After the Mountains had formed, plate tectonics shifted them northwards to their present-day position.Шаблон:Sfn Allison Guyot appears to have formed in the same region.Шаблон:Sfn
Composition
One drill core on Allison Guyot has found a 136-metre-thick layer of pelagic sediments, under which are 735-metre-thick limestones that formed in lagoonsШаблон:Sfn and might continue down for almost 600 metres.Шаблон:Sfn The limestone consists mostly of calcite with little dolomiteШаблон:Sfn and occurs in the form of bafflestone,Шаблон:Sfn grainstone, packstone, peloid, rudstone and wackestone;Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn ooliths have also been found.[12] The carbonates are of biogenic origin,Шаблон:Sfn and fossils of dasyclads,Шаблон:Sfn echinoderms,Шаблон:Sfn gastropods, green algae,Шаблон:Sfn molluscs,Шаблон:Sfn ostracods,Шаблон:Sfn oysters,Шаблон:Sfn red algae,Шаблон:Sfn rudists and sponges occur within the limestones;Шаблон:Sfn some of the fossils have partially dissolved and are thus poorly preserved.Шаблон:Sfn Remnants of crocodilians have been found within AptianШаблон:Efn–Albian mudstones, together with fossils of fish and unidentified vertebrates.[13] The limestone is partly altered by karstification and phosphatisation, and manganese has accumulated in the upper layers.Шаблон:Sfn
Basalts occur in the form of cobblesШаблон:Sfn and sills within the limestones.Шаблон:Sfn These basalts define an alkali basalt suiteШаблон:Sfn and contain clinopyroxene, feldspar, ilmenite, plagioclase, pyroxene, spinel and titanomagnetite. They probably also contained olivine but the basaltic rocks sampled are so heavily altered that no olivine is left.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The basalts are typical of intraplate volcanismШаблон:Sfn and their geochemistry shows evidence that fractional crystallisation and mixing between different magmas were involved in their genesis.Шаблон:Sfn The component minerals have often been completely altered to calcite, clays, gypsum, hematite, quartz and other, unidentified minerals,Шаблон:Sfn either when exposed above sea level or through hydrothermal fluids when the sills formed.Шаблон:Sfn The formation of the sills led to the hardening and hydrothermal alteration of the surrounding sediments.Шаблон:Sfn
Clays are found both within the limestonesШаблон:Sfn and in layers between the carbonates.Шаблон:Sfn They consist of berthierine, chlorite, feldspar, hydromica, illite, kaolinite, mica, quartz, serpentine, smectite and possible zeolite.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The clays were in part derived from lateritic soils that developed on the volcanic island before they were completely buried in carbonates,Шаблон:Sfn and in part formed in settings with limited water exchange during lagoonal stages.Шаблон:Sfn Dolomite, gypsum and pyrite co-occur with some clays,Шаблон:Sfn and claystonesШаблон:Efn have been found in some places.Шаблон:Sfn Mudstones with evidence of animal burrowsШаблон:Sfn and containing amber, glauconite, organic material including plant debris and pyrite have also been encountered;[13] pyrite indicates that anoxic environments existed on Allison Guyot.Шаблон:Sfn
Black shale and coal form layers in one drill core.Шаблон:Sfn The lower limestones contain substantial amounts of organic material that originated from terrestrial settings,[14] and remnants of animal burrowsШаблон:Sfn and plant roots have been foundШаблон:Sfn in many layers of the platform.Шаблон:Sfn The clays and mudstones are rich in organic material.Шаблон:Sfn Most of this organic material appears to come from plantsШаблон:Sfn but some material has been attributed to algae.Шаблон:Sfn Cells and tracheids can be found in the plant remnants.Шаблон:Sfn
Geological history
Radiometric dating has been performed on some of the volcanic rocks. Potassium–argon dating on the sills has yielded ages of 102 ± 6 million years ago and 87 ± 3 million years ago, while argon–argon dating also on the sills produced ages of 111.1 ± 2.6 million years,Шаблон:Sfn 111.2 ± 1.2 million years ago and 104.8 ± 0.8 million years ago.Шаблон:Sfn Other ages from the sills are about 110.7 ± 1.2 million years ago and 104.9 ± 2.0 million years ago.Шаблон:Sfn Rocks dredged from the slopes of Allison Guyot have yielded ages of 101.2 ± 0.8 million years,Шаблон:Sfn 102.7 ± 2.7 million years and 85.6 ± 1.3 million years ago.Шаблон:Sfn Overall, the volcano is considered to be at least 111 million years oldШаблон:Sfn and volcanic activity probably spanned 30[7]–25 million years and several stages.Шаблон:Sfn
Both the sills and the dredged rocks were probably erupted after the main shield stageШаблон:Sfn and they may constitute a late stage of secondary volcanism;Шаблон:Sfn two or three separate stages might have taken place, including one which formed a secondary cone on the eastern side of Allison Guyot. This may indicate that the seamount passed over more than one hotspot.Шаблон:Sfn The volcano of Allison Guyot was apparently already partially eroded when the secondary volcanism took place.Шаблон:Sfn Paleomagnetic data taken from limestones show that Allison Guyot developed in the Southern Hemisphere, at a latitude of about 11.2° ± 2.0° south.Шаблон:Sfn
Emergent phase
Allison Guyot began as a volcanic islandШаблон:Sfn with a relief of perhaps 1.3 kilometres.Шаблон:Sfn Located in equatorial waters suited to the deposition of carbonate platforms,Шаблон:Sfn limestoneШаблон:Sfn platform grew on the guyotШаблон:Sfn as it rapidly subsided during the Albian.Шаблон:Sfn Eventually, the seamount became an atoll. Volcanic rocks cropped out for some time before they were buried into the carbonates,Шаблон:Sfn and weathering products of the volcanic rocks accumulated in the limestones.Шаблон:Sfn The islands were covered by vegetation, and vegetation cover decreased over time as the volcanic edifice sank.Шаблон:Sfn The climate was probably humid and runoff was intense.Шаблон:Sfn
The platform contains lagoon and swamp environments,Шаблон:Sfn with water depths not exceeding 10 metres,Шаблон:Sfn and at some stage contained sand shoals and islands formed by storms as well. The interior was not protected from the seaШаблон:Sfn and the sector of the platform that was investigated by drill cores apparently became increasingly accessible to it over time.Шаблон:Sfn The inner platform had a quiet muddy water setting;Шаблон:Sfn generally Allison Guyot at that time resembled the present-day Bikini and Eniwetok atolls in terms of morphology when Allison Guyot was emergent.Шаблон:Sfn
The carbonate deposits indicate sea level changes following orbital cyclesШаблон:Sfn consistent with Milankovitch forcing;Шаблон:Sfn parts of the platform occasionally rose above sea level.Шаблон:Sfn At some point, karst environments existed on Allison Guyot and are probably the reason for the irregular surface of the summit platformШаблон:Sfn and the presence of sinkholes; there are clear indications of about 200 metres of emergence.Шаблон:Sfn
BivalvesШаблон:Sfn including rudists,Шаблон:Sfn corals, echinoderms, foraminifera, green algae, hydrozoans, red algae and sponges have been found in the platform's deposits.Шаблон:Sfn Rudists were at that time important reef buildersШаблон:Sfn and together with sponges colonised the margin of the platform.Шаблон:Sfn Among the rudist species discovered on Allison Guyot is Requienia cf. migliorinii.Шаблон:Sfn Teeth of crocodilians have been found on the seamount.[13] Its 110 million years old[15] remnants are the oldest known crocodilians in the region of the Pacific Ocean. They indicate that such species lived within the lagoon of Allison Guyot and may give clues about the history of Pacific animals and their dispersal.[13]
Drowning and post-drowning evolution
A carbonate platform is said to 'drown' when sedimentation can no longer keep up with relative rises in sea level.Шаблон:Sfn Carbonate sedimentation on Allison Guyot ended during late Albian times,Шаблон:Sfn about 99 ± 2 million years ago, at the same time as at Resolution Guyot.Шаблон:Sfn By Turonian times (93.9 – 89.8 ± 0.3 million years ago[5]), pelagic sedimentation was prevailing on Allison Guyot.Шаблон:Sfn On both Allison and Resolution Guyots, the drowning was preceded by an episode where the platform rose above the sea;Шаблон:Sfn possibly it was this emergence and the following submergence which terminated carbonate deposition and prevented it from beginning again.Шаблон:Sfn Such emergence and drowning has been recorded at carbonate platforms of that age around the world and may be the consequence of tectonic events across the Pacific Ocean,Шаблон:Sfn culminating in the uplift of a part thereof.Шаблон:Sfn At that time, a last phase of volcanic activity on Allison Guyot generated several cones on its eastern part.Шаблон:Sfn The evidence for this theory is not conclusive,Шаблон:Sfn and another theory holds that the drowning of Allison Guyot occurred when it moved through equatorial waters, where upwelling increased the amount of nutrients available,Шаблон:Sfn hampering the growth of platforms.Шаблон:EfnШаблон:Sfn The waters might also have been too hot to support the survival of reef builders, as happens in present-day coral bleaching events.Шаблон:Sfn
About 160 metresШаблон:Efn of pelagic sedimentШаблон:Sfn in the form of sand, oozeШаблон:Sfn and pelagic limestone accumulated on Allison Guyot; pelagic limestone is of Turonian to Campanian (83.6 ± 0.2 − 72.1 ± 0.2 million years ago[5]) age while the oozes and sands were deposited starting in the early Paleocene (66–56 million years ago[5]).Шаблон:Sfn In drill cores, the ooze has a sandy, watery habitus owing to the prevalence of fossil foraminifera in the sediment.Шаблон:Sfn The pelagic sediments have been bioturbatedШаблон:Efn in some placesШаблон:Sfn and modified by sea currents, which have formed the large mound of pelagic sediment.Шаблон:Sfn In drill cores, the ooze overlies Cretaceous shallow-water limestones,Шаблон:Sfn which were modified by phosphatisation and manganese accumulation.Шаблон:Sfn As plate tectonics moved Allison Guyot northward, its surrounding water masses changed, as did the properties of the pelagic cap.Шаблон:Sfn Slumping of the platform occurred during the Cenozoic (the last 66 million years).[5][8]
The pelagic ooze bears evidence of the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum,Шаблон:Efn including temporary dissolution of carbonates, changes in the isotope ratios of carbon in sediments on Allison GuyotШаблон:Sfn and changes in foraminiferaШаблон:Sfn and ostracod fossils found in the ooze. The latter underwent a major extinction during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum on the seamount and took a long time to recover.Шаблон:Sfn
Sea currents have altered the pelagic deposits by removing smaller particles. In particular deposits from warmer periods have been altered in this way on Allison Guyot, perhaps because warmer climates increased hurricane activity and thus the energy available in sea currents or deep-sea circulations shifted.Шаблон:Sfn Furthermore, pauses in the sedimentation or episodes of slowdown have been identified.Шаблон:Sfn
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