Los carbonatos marinos aptienses del anticlinal de Santillana del Mar. Cantabria: Procesos diagenéticos y su relación con los contenidos en Sr. Fe y Mn

Abstract

Strontium, Fe, and Mn are reported for lower Cretaceous carbonate rocks from Santillana del Mar anticline, Cantabria. The carbonate rocks studied in this work include limestones, dolostones, and dedolomitized dolostones. The limestones are packstones composed of orbitolinid debris. The dolostones consist of geometric hypidiotopic mosaics with crystals ranging from 50 um up to 200 um, diagenesis having obliterated almost all primary textures. Only sorne orbitolinid ghosts are presento Mean values obtained for Sr, Fe, and Mn contents in limestones are 216 ppm, 605 ppm, and 33 ppm, respectively. For dolostones, these values are 48 ppm, 9.740 ppm, and 165 pp, respectively. Finally, mean values for Sr, Fe and Mn in dedolomitized dolostones are 15 ppm, 12.202 ppm, and 202 ppm, respectively. These values are agreed with previous hypothesis about dolomitization by late diagenetic processes and dedolomitization in a meteoric environment. Although Sr contents can be a useful tool in limestones diagenesis, Sr/Fe and Sr/Mn ratios reveal more clearly the different diagenetic processes wich take place in carbonate rocks.