Advances in Earth Science ›› 2017, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (3): 221-233. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2017.03.0221

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The Diagenesis of Coral Reefs

Rui Wang 1, 2, 3( ), Kefu Yu 1, 2, 3, *( ), Yinghui Wang 1, 2, 3, Lizeng Bian 3, 4   

  1. 1.School of Marine Sciences, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004,China
    2.Guangxi Laboratory on the Study of Coral Reefs in the South China Sea, Nanning 530004, China
    3.Coral Reef Research Center of China Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
    4.School of Earth Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • Received:2016-11-26 Revised:2017-01-25 Online:2017-03-20 Published:2017-03-20
  • Contact: Kefu Yu E-mail:wrzfl@gxu.edu.cn;kefuyu@scsio.ac.cn
  • About author:

    First author:Wang Rui(1983-), male, Huainan City, Anhui Province, Lecturer. Research areas include sedimentary petrology of coral reefs.E-mail:wrzfl@gxu.edu.cn

  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China “The evolution and environmental change of Xisha carbonate platform recorded by kilometer deep drill in the coral reef”(No.91428203);Guangxi Ba-Gui Fellowship:Coral reef resources and environment (No.2014BGXZGX03)

Rui Wang, Kefu Yu, Yinghui Wang, Lizeng Bian. The Diagenesis of Coral Reefs[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2017, 32(3): 221-233.

Coral reefs are often constrained by diagenesis as a sound environmental archive. The correct understanding and evaluation of diagenesis is the key to the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of coral reefs. The diagenesis of coral reefs mainly includes cementation, dissolution, neomorphism and dolomitization etc. On the one hand, the diagenesis itself can record the paleoenvironment that coral reefs underwent, such as sea-level fluctuation, climate change, change of sea water, hydrothermal alteration, microbial activity and so on. The diagenetic evolution thus can be used for the reconstruction of paleoenvironment change. On the other hand, diagenesis also destroys the original environmental information which recorded of coral reefs recard, and it is necessary to know the degree of the impact of diagenesis. In the future, we should pay more attention to the study on the relationships among diagenesis, modern climate, sea-level change, atmospheric water transformation and microbial activity. It can provide more accurate and longer time series of paleoenvironmental information that coral reefs recorded.

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