The Biomarkers in the Mesoproterozoic Organic‐rich Rocks of North China Craton: Implication for the Precursor and Preservation of Organism in the Prokaryotic Realm

Ma, Sai; Zhang, Shuichang; Jin, Sheng; Wang, Xiaomei; He, Kun; Fang, Yu; Mi, Jingkui

doi:10.1111/1755-6724.14773

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“…Biomarker compound parameters are another tool for evaluating the maturity of organic matter in sedimental rocks [51,54,55]. During the heating of hopanes and steranes under geological conditions, the R conformation is converted to the S conformation, forming a mixed conformation of R + S. In general, a higher 22S/(S + R) ratio represents higher maturity [52].…”

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Lipid Biomarker and Stable Isotopic Profiles through Late Carboniferous–Early Triassic of the Deepest Well MS-1 in the Junggar Basin, Northwest China

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The Carboniferous–Triassic period was an important stage of global sea–land transformation, with coal formation in the Carboniferous, biological extinction at the end of the Permian, and global drought in the Triassic. The MS-1 well in the Mosuowan High of the Junggar Basin is the deepest well drilled in Northwestern China. In this paper, we investigate the sedimentary environment and climate evolution of the Mosuowan area in the central Junggar Basin during the Late Carboniferous–Early Permian by the petrothermal, lipid biomarker, and isotopic composition of mud shale core samples, and explore the tectonic–climatic events and Central Asian orogenic belt evolution driving the sedimentary environment. The study shows that the organic matter from the Upper Carboniferous to the Lower Permian is at a mature stage, but biomarkers maintained the primary information although the organic matter was subjected to thermal evolution. In the late Carboniferous period (Tamugan Formation), the study area was a closed remnant sea with a relatively humid climate, triggering lush terrestrial vegetation and high organic carbon content in the sediments, which had the potential to evolve into natural gas. During the Xiazijie Formation of the Middle Permian, tectonic activity shifted to the subsidence period, and the salinity of the water decreased after a large input of fresh water. The lake basin area expanded, and the content of aquatic organisms continued to increase. As the Lower Permian stratigraphy is missing, this sea–land transition seems to jump. The low and upper Urho Formations of the Middle–Upper Permian are a deltaic foreland deposit, and geochemical indicators show an overall lake retreat process with a continuous increase in organic matter content of terrestrial origin. The lithologic assemblage of the Triassic Baikouquan Formation is braided river deltaic sedimentation with migration of deposition centers of the lake basin. In conclusion, the Late Carboniferous–Early Permian period was influenced by global changes, Paleo-Asian Ocean subduction, and continental splicing, which resulted in a continuous increase in terrestrial organic matter, water desalination, and oxidation-rich sediments in the Mosuowan region, but the P–T biological mass extinction event was not recorded.

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Section: Organic Matter Maturitymentioning

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Lipid Biomarker and Stable Isotopic Profiles through Late Carboniferous–Early Triassic of the Deepest Well MS-1 in the Junggar Basin, Northwest China

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Spatial and Temporal Redox Heterogeneity Controlled by a Fe(II), Anoxic Upwelling System in the Early Mesoproterozoic Ocean

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Zhang,

et al. 2023

Geophysical Research Letters

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The Mesoproterozoic Era (1,600-1,000 million years ago (Ma)) has long been considered a period of relative environmental stasis with biological evolutionary stagnation (Cawood & Hawkesworth, 2014). However, decimeter-scale multicellular fossils have been discovered in the 1,560 million-year-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation of the Yanliao Basin, North China Craton (Zhu et al., 2016). This advanced evolution of complex multicellular eukaryotes to the early Mesoproterozoic. K. Zhang et al. (2018) established a link between rising oxygen levels and the emergence of multicellular eukaryotic life in the early Mesoproterozoic. Furthermore, except for the Yanliao Basin, the Ruyang Group (∼1,750-1,400 Ma) in the southwestern margin of the North China Craton (Agić et al., 2017), the Kotuidan Formation (∼1,500 Ma) on the Northern Siberia Platform (Vorob'eva et al., 2015), and the Roper Group (∼1,500 Ma) in northern Australia (Javaux et al., 2001) have also been reported to preserve a high abundance and diversity of eukaryotic organisms in the early Mesoproterozoic. This evidence suggests that biological evolution during this time was far more active. During the deposition from the Wumishan Formation to the Hongshuizhuang Formation in the Yanliao Basin, a transition from organic-poor to organic-rich deposition leaves much unknown in ocean chemical conditions. Fixed nitrogen (N) in the euphotic zone, including nitrate and ammonium, is essential to life (Koehler et al., 2017). Ocean chemical conditions can influence the availability of nitrogen. In ferruginous upwelling systems, euphotic waters overlying upwelling water mass with NO 3 − reduction to N 2 and NH 4 + take place at relatively high rates due to the persistent Fe(II) electron donors supply (Michiels et al., 2017). NO 3 − reduction to NH 4 + through

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Application of Statistical Methods to Biomarkers for Geochemical Evaluation and Genetic Type Determination of Gas Condensates in the Persian Gulf and Coastal Fars, Southern Iran

Seidy

Saberi

2022

Acta Geologica Sinica (Eng)

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In a comprehensive geochemical study, the genetic relationships among 14 samples of gas condensates from the Persian Gulf were investigated for the purpose of evaluating the respective source rocks in terms of both age and sedimentary paleoenvironment. Chemometric analysis was used for categorization and determination of a certitude range to determine the genetic type of the condensate families in the studied basin. The samples were collected from Late Permian -Triassic reservoirs (Dalan and Kangan formations) located in 6 gasfields (gas condensate) hosting some of Iran's most important gas/gas condensate reserves. Obtained by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), a total of 16 biomarker parameters (10 maturity-related parameters and 6 sedimentary environment-related parameters) were used to evaluate the samples in terms of thermal maturity (and hence their positions in the maturity chart), the sedimentary environment of the source rock and the lithology. Application of Hierarchical Clustering Analysis (HCA) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to the collected data led to the categorization of the samples into three main genetic groups, I-III. Groups I and III were found to be located in the east and the west of the Persian Gulf, respectively, while Group II was developed between the two other groups.

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The Biomarkers in the Mesoproterozoic Organic‐rich Rocks of North China Craton: Implication for the Precursor and Preservation of Organism in the Prokaryotic Realm

Cited by 3 publications

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Lipid Biomarker and Stable Isotopic Profiles through Late Carboniferous–Early Triassic of the Deepest Well MS-1 in the Junggar Basin, Northwest China

Lipid Biomarker and Stable Isotopic Profiles through Late Carboniferous–Early Triassic of the Deepest Well MS-1 in the Junggar Basin, Northwest China

Spatial and Temporal Redox Heterogeneity Controlled by a Fe(II), Anoxic Upwelling System in the Early Mesoproterozoic Ocean

Application of Statistical Methods to Biomarkers for Geochemical Evaluation and Genetic Type Determination of Gas Condensates in the Persian Gulf and Coastal Fars, Southern Iran

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