Article Dans Une Revue Minerals Année : 2025

Reconstruction of the Temperature Conditions of Burial-Related Pressure Solution by Clumped Isotopes Validates the Analysis of Sedimentary Stylolites Roughness as a Reliable Depth Gauge

Daniel Koehn
Einat Aharonov
Andrea Billi
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Rough surfaces known as stylolites are common geological features that are developed by pressure solution, especially in carbonate rocks, where they are used as strain markers and as stress gauges. As applications are developing in various geological settings, questions arise regarding the uncertainties associated with quantitative estimates of paleostress using stylolite roughness. This contribution reports for the first time a measurement of the temperature at which pressure solution was active by applying clumped isotopes thermometry to calcite cement found in jogs linking the tips of the stylolites. This authigenic calcite formed as a redistribution of the surrounding dissolved material by the same dissolution processes that formed the extensive stylolite network. We compare the depth derived from these temperatures to the depth calculated from the vertical stress inversion of a bedding parallel stylolite population documented on a slab of the Calcare Massiccio formation (early Jurassic) formerly collected in the Umbria-Marches Arcuate Ridge (Northern Apennines, Italy). We further validate the coevality between the jog development and the pressure solution by simulating the stress field around the stylolite tip. Calcite clumped isotopes constrain crystallization to temperatures between 35 and 40 • C from a common fluid with a δ 18 O signature around -1.3‰ SMOW. Additional δ 18 O isotopes on numerous jogs allows the range of precipitation temperature to be extended to from 25 to 53 • C, corresponding to a depth range of 650 to 1900 m. This may be directly compared to the results of stylolite roughness inversion for stress, which predict a range of vertical stress from 14 to 46 MPa, corresponding to depths from 400 to 2000 m. The overall correlation between these two independent depth estimates suggests that sedimentary stylolites can reliably be used as a depth gauge, independently of the thermal gradient. Beyond the method validation, our study also reveals some mechanisms of pressure solution and the associated p,T conditions favouring their development in carbonates.

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hal-04905449 , version 1 (22-01-2025)

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Nicolas E Beaudoin, Daniel Koehn, Einat Aharonov, Andrea Billi, Matthieu Daeron, et al.. Reconstruction of the Temperature Conditions of Burial-Related Pressure Solution by Clumped Isotopes Validates the Analysis of Sedimentary Stylolites Roughness as a Reliable Depth Gauge. Minerals, 2025, 15 (1), pp.73. ⟨10.3390/min15010073⟩. ⟨hal-04905449⟩
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