Origin and water depth of a newly identified seep carbonate and paleoecology of Bathymodiolus in the Miocene Taishu Group, southwestern Japan

• Published in: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology Vol. 546; p. 109655
• Main Authors: Ninomiya, Takashi, Shimoyama, Shoichi, Miyata, Yuichiro, Yamanaka, Toshiro, Shimazu, Takashi, Taniguchi, Sho, Aoki, Takahiro, Nishida, Tamio, Takahashi, Toshihiro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 15.05.2020; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Anaerobic methane oxidation; basins; bicarbonates; Bivalvia; carbonates; Chemosynthetic production; Deep-sea basin; fossils; hydrogen sulfide; Japan; Japan Sea; limestone; methane; microorganisms; Miocene epoch; mudstone; nitrogen; oxidation; oxygen; paleoecology; stable isotopes; subsidence; sulfur; symbionts; total organic carbon; Japan; Deep-sea basin; Chemosynthetic production; Japan Sea; Anaerobic methane oxidation

The Fukuzaki Limestone is a small limestone lens embedded in siliciclastic Taishu Group rocks on Tsushima Island in the southwestern Japan Sea. A fossil assemblage in this limestone consisting of the bivalve mollusc Bathymodiolus sp. (Bathymodiolinae) was previously inferred, on the basis of the lim...