Degree Year
2015
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Geology
Advisor(s)
Karla Parsons-Hubbard
Committee Member(s)
Bruce Simonson
Kristin Dorfler
Russell Shapiro
Keywords
Cretaceous, Seep, Rocks
Abstract
Purpose: Literature on the formation of authigenic rock at cold seeps focuses on the role of microbes in creating geochemically favorable environment for the precipitation of carbonate and barite minerals. Less understood is the pathway that lithified microbial patches of seafloor sediment follow to become rock formations that are identified in strata dating back to the Silurian. In this study I will compare Holocene seep rock from the Gulf of Mexico to Cretaceous carbonates that have been identified as seep rock. Through the study of rock in its early stages of formation to rock that has likely undergone multiple phases of diagenesis I aim to establish a hypothetical sequence of formation of the Cretaceous seep rocks.
Repository Citation
Morelli, Erica C., "Pillars and Buttes: A Petrologic Comparison of Modern and Ancient Hydrocarbon Seep Rock" (2015). Honors Papers. 265.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/honors/265
