Diagénesis de bajo grado en los sedimentos de la Formación de Quintanaloma (Cretácico Superior, Norte de Burgos, España)evidencias en la materia orgánica
- Suárez Ruiz, Isabel
- Regidor Higuera, I.
- Zuluaga Ibargallartu, María Cruz
- García Garmilla, Francisco
ISSN: 0213-683X
Año de publicación: 2002
Número: 32
Páginas: 303-306
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Geogaceta
Resumen
Several remains of wood and roots from the sediments of Quintanaloma Formation have been studied in order to determine the degree of organic evolution by measuring the huminite reflectance. Diagenesis of the organic matter linked to the rudist shells is limited to the precipitation of pyrite in crystals and framboids. The reflectance values and the type of recognized macerals in the organic fraction: huminite (humotelinite and humocollinite) and liptinite (mainly resinite) suggest that the organic matter in the analysed samples is clearly immature. Thus, the organic evolution corresponds to diagenesis stage in the range from lignite to lignite/sub-bituminous coal. Other criteria supporting this idea are: the excellent preservation of original textures and details of vegetal tissues, the low-grade of gellification, compaction and homogenisation of tissues, and the intense fluorescence of resinite in the short wavelength domain with colours from green to yellowish green