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Quartz grain microtextures in the Boca del Cielo and Chocohuital beaches in the Mexican Pacific, Chiapas state: implication on paleoenvironment

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Based on scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images, we studied the microtextures of quartz grains recovered from the Boca del Cielo and Chocohuital beach sediments in the Chiapas state, Mexico. Microtextures of mechanical, chemical, and mechanical/chemical origins were identified. Quartz grains in both beaches were sub-angular to sub-rounded in shape, indicating high energy, short transport, and nearby source. The microtextures of mechanical origin like percussion marks, conchoidal fractures, and V-shaped marks were abundant in the Chocohuital beach, which revealed high energy subaqueous beach environment. Large-scale conchoidal fractures are characteristic of crystalline rocks, and abrasion features are due to energetic grain-to-grain collision during eolian transport. However, quartz grains in the Boca del Cielo beach were dominated with microtextures of chemical origin such as adhered particles, solution pits, and crystal overgrowth, and are abundant with trapped diatoms, which indicated the diagenetic processes in a silica saturated environment. Two diatoms Navicula incertata and Cyclotella bodanica of 15-μm size are identified in Boca del Cielo quartz grains.

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Acknowledgements

We extend our sincere thanks to Laura E. Gómez Lizárraga for SEM study. We are grateful to Carlos Linares-López and Teodoro Hernández Treviño for mineral identification. We extend our sincere thanks to our laboratory assistants Ricardo M. Domínguez, Eduardo Morales la Garza, Susana Santiago, and Arturo Ronquillo Arvizu for their assistance during this study. We acknowledge ICML-Institutional project (no. 616) for providing transport facilities during sample collection.

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Ramos-Vázquez is thankful to CONACyT for the postdoctoral scholarship (CVU: 595593). This research work was financially supported by the Programa de Apoyo a Proyectos de Investigación e Innovación Tecnológica (PAPIIT) project (no: IN107020) and CONACyT (no: A1-S-21287) projects.

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JSAA: investigation, writing—review and editing, formal analysis, resources, funding acquisition. MARV: investigation, writing—original draft, field work, SEM analysis. JM: methodology, formal analysis, editing. SKV: methodology, formal analysis, review and editing. KMM: logistic fieldwork, data curation, methodology, formal analysis, SEM analysis. DMR: logistic fieldwork, data curation, methodology, SEM analysis. All authors contributed equally in writing, reviewing, and editing the manuscript.

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Armstrong-Altrin, J.S., Ramos-Vázquez, M.A., Madhavaraju, J. et al. Quartz grain microtextures in the Boca del Cielo and Chocohuital beaches in the Mexican Pacific, Chiapas state: implication on paleoenvironment. Arab J Geosci 15, 1086 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-022-10334-9

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