Magnetostratigraphy and lithostratigraphy of the Laño vertebrate-site: Implications in the uppermost Cretaceous chronostratigraphy of the Basque-Cantabrian Region     

《Cretaceous Research》2016

Here we present the magnetostratigraphic dating of the Laño locality (Condado de Treviño, northern Iberian Peninsula), one of the most noteworthy Campanian-Maastrichtian vertebrate sites of Europe. A composite section of 75 m thickness (Laño quarry) constructed from multiple, overlapping profiles and a continuous one (Faido) have been sampled for magnetostratigraphy. Thermal demagnetization techniques were systematically applied to 161 standard specimens and allowed characterizing the characteristic remanent magnetism, mostly carried out by magnetite. The palaeomagnetic signal is slightly scattered due to variety of lithologies, but the primary character can be guaranteed, since the normal and reverse directions are pseudo antiparallel; 346, 28 (α₉₅: 11.9°, k: 5.3) and 175, −35 (α₉₅: 16.4°, k: 4.6). Reliable samples allowed us to build the local polarity sequence made of eight magnetozones that has been used to correlate to the Global Polarity Time Scale. The age of the lower part of the Laño-village succession is basal late Campanian (Hoplitoplacenticeras marroti ammonite zone) and fits with the long reversed zone that must correlate to Chron C33r. The pattern of magnetozones allows tracking the section up to C30r at the upper part of the profile. In this correlation, the Laño vertebrate site is regarded as latest Campanian in age as it falls within the C32n (≈72–73.5 Ma). The combined lithostratigraphic and magnetostratigraphic analyses have yielded additional conclusions regarding the vertebrate assemblages that are representative of the Late Campanian of the Iberian Peninsula, in addition to highlight an older occurrence in Europe of some vertebrate groups such as salamandrid lissamphians and anguid lizards (or amphisbaenians).  相似文献   

The lithostratigraphy of the English Chalk Rock     

R.G. Bromley  A.S. Gale 《Cretaceous Research》1982,3(3):273-306

The Upper Turonian Chalk Rock occurs within a nodular unit within the otherwise generally soft, white chalk that dominates the English Upper Cretaceous. The nodular unit is condensed, and contains a number of hardgrounds that are designated here as the Chalk Rock Formation. The Chalk Rock contains some seven or eight hardgrounds, most of which are lithologically distinctive and can be traced over distances of up to 250 km. Nine beds within the Chalk Rock are named, comprising six hardgrounds and three marl seams. The lowermost widespread hardground appears to be more or less equivalent to the “Spurious Chalk Rock” of the south coast of England. In two areas the thickness of the Chalk Rock is greatly diminished. The most marked area, in west Wiltshire, is located close to the Palaeozoic Mendip Hills and indicates that the Mendip structure has influenced Turonian sedimentation. The other region of thinning is a platform-like area in the eastern Chiltern Hills WNW of London.  相似文献   

Le Toarcien inférieur du Haut Atlas de Todrha–Dadès (Maroc) : sédimentologie et lithostratigraphie     

Mohammed Ettaki  El Hassane Chellaï 《Comptes Rendus Geoscience》2005,337(9):814-823

The survey of sedimentological and lithostratigraphic Liassic facies of the Todrha–Dades area (southwestern part of the central High Atlas) permits to establish new data on the Tagoudite formation. Its environment deposit and its micropalaeontological content are evidenced in relation with the geodynamic evolution of the High Atlas Basin during the Early Toarcian. To cite this article: M. Ettaki, E.H. Chellaï, C. R. Geoscience 337 (2005).  相似文献   

Lithostratigraphy of the Mérida (Wisconsinan) glaciation and Pedregal interstade, Mérida Andes, northwestern Venezuela     

Randy W. Dirszowsky  William C. Mahaney  Kyle R. Hodder  Michael W. Milner  Volli Kalm  Maximiliano Bezada  Roelf P. Beukens 《Journal of South American Earth Sciences》2005,19(4):525-536

At Pedregal, more than 40 m of sediments are exposed within a ‘fan complex’ formed between lateral moraines of the adjacent Mucuchache and El Caballo valleys. Early and late Mérida (Wisconsinan) glaciations are represented by till and till plus proglacial sediments, respectively. A middle Wisconsinan interstadial event, here termed the Pedregal interstade, began at the end of the Early Mérida glaciation at approximately 60 ka BP. Following the retreat of ice from the small Pedregal Basin, a lake formed when the local drainage was blocked due to movement of the Mesa de Caballo along the Boconó Fault. Shallow lake or no-lake phases lasted approximately a few hundred to, at most, 2000 years, and each lake phase was marked by peat accumulation. Four of seven peats identified formed during sufficiently long intervals for soil profiles (incipient to mature Spodosols) also to develop. The Spodosol with the strongest development (Eb/Bsb/Coxb/Cub horizons) is found adjacent to the lowest peat and reflects ongoing early Mérida stadial (MIS 3) conditions; the youngest peats, associated with weak podzolic soils (Eb/Bsb horizons), formed under slightly warmer interstadial conditions, presumably with less soil water. Cyclic lacustrine deposition is related to lake level and relative depth fluctuations, due in part to variable shoreline/delta progradation and shallowing as the lake deepened in general. Whereas final drainage of the lake is related to movement of the Boconó Fault and breach of the moraines that form the Mesa de Caballo, earlier lake level fluctuations appear related to climate change. Radiocarbon dating of the peats suggests they are related to warmer periods and may tentatively correlate with small ‘interstadials’ or ‘D-O events’ detected in the oxygen-isotope record of Greenland ice cores and North Atlantic marine sediments.  相似文献   

赣南三百山盆地岩石地层划分的新认识及其意义     

董业才  巫建华  杨小秋 《江苏地质》2006,30(4):254-260

分析了赣南三百山盆地地层层序和岩石地层划分的研究现状及存在分歧的原因,提出前人建立的地层层序与野外新发现的地质事实不相吻合,三百山盆地不存在所谓的双峰式火山岩组合和推覆构造。依据地层层序律,将三百山盆地自下而上可划分为砂岩层、长英质火山岩层、镁铁质火山岩层和砂砾岩层四套;通过地层对比,将第一套砂岩层划归上侏罗统武夷群双峰岭组、第二套长英质火山岩层划归上侏罗统武夷群鹅湖岭组、第三套铁镁质火山岩层和第四套砂砾岩层划归下白垩统罗塘群白埠组。  相似文献   

湖南冷家溪群岩石地层的研究   总被引：9，自引：0，他引：9  

唐晓珊 《湖南地质》1989,8(2):1-9

本文概述了湖南冷家溪群雷神庙组、黄浒洞组,小木坪组、坪原组等岩石地层单位及其标准剖面的岩性、岩相、标志层、岩石地球化学特征,初步研究了冷家溪群微古植物面貌与组合特点,探讨了冷家溪群的时代归属。对省内各地出露的冷家溪群,进行了岩石地层划分与对比。  相似文献   

A multi-proxy holocene record of environmental change fromthe sediments of Skinny Lake, Iskut region, northern British Columbia,Canada     

I.S. Spooner  D. Mazzucchi  G. Osborn  R. Gilbert  I. Larocque 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2002,28(4):419-431

A stratigraphic record from a lake in the Central Plateau Regionof northern British Columbia reveals changes in environment and inferredclimate during the Holocene. Upon deglaciation (ca. 11500 BP), Skinny Lakebecame an embayment of an ice-dammed lake. High clastic sedimentationrates, an unstable landscape, and cool, possibly wet conditions likelypersisted until the early Holocene (ca. 9000 BP). From ca. 9000–8300 BPdeclining lake levels coupled with warm and dry conditions resulted in theformation of a prominent marl bed. A colonizing shrub and herb assemblagepersisted from 9000 BP until about 8300 BP when it was replaced by a spruce(Picea) and subalpine fir (Abieslasiocarpa) forest under slightly cooler and moister conditions. Themiddle Holocene was warmer-than-present, however, decreasingtemperature and increasing precipitation trends characterize the period fromca. 6000 BP–3000 BP. The transition to modern climate at 3000 BP isevident primarily in the lithostratigraphic record and corresponds with theinitiation of the Tiedemann glacial advance (ca. 3300 BP) in thesouth-coastal mountains of British Columbia. A significant change infossil pollen occurs at ca. 2400 BP and is characterised by an increase in pinepollen accompanied by decreases in alder (Alnus), spruceand fir. This also coincides with an increase in west-sourced exoticwestern hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla) and cedar type(Cupressaceae) pollen possibly transported by regional changes in air masscirculation patterns associated with Aleutian Low dynamics. This studydemonstrates that both lithostratigraphic and biotic proxies are helpful inreconstructing the timing and nature of climate change and that each may havevarying sensitivities to a particular type of change.  相似文献   

A revision of the Jurassic (Bathonian to Oxfordian) lithostratigraphy of the onshore Moray Firth Basin,north-east Scotland     

A.J. Mark Barron  James B. Riding 《Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. Geologists' Association》2014

Bathonian to Oxfordian strata occur onshore in two principal locations over 30 km apart on the coast of the Moray Firth, at Brora and Balintore. The existing lithostratigraphy has the same formation names applied to both successions despite profound differences, exemplified in their schemes of local members. Furthermore, three of the formation names include the same place name, and use obsolete lithological terms.  相似文献   

藏东类乌齐地区晚三叠世甲丕拉组地层及沉积相特征   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1       下载免费PDF全文

邱军强  郭小霄  强巴扎西 《江苏地质》2013,37(1):24-30

晚三叠世甲丕拉组地层出露于藏东类乌齐地区,总体呈NW—SE向不等宽的条带状展布,通过近年来的1∶5万类乌齐县等4幅区调,将测区甲丕拉组由老至新划分为岩性组合不同的3个(一、二、三)岩性段。一段主要是一套紫红色砂砾岩,具山前河流砂砾岩相特征;二段主要是一套灰色砂岩、灰岩互层,具滨浅海钙质碎屑岩-碳酸盐相特征;三段为红色碎屑岩,具滨岸砂页岩相特征。各段化石种类亦不同。将甲丕拉组分段有助于藏东基础地质调查,为该区地层地质研究提供了新信息。  相似文献   

A late ordovician/early silurian non-depositional slope and perched roll-over basin along the tywi anticline,mid wales     

D. M. D. James 《Geological Journal》1991,26(1):7-26

Ordovician stratigraphy between the Sugarloaf and the Wye valley is summarized with particular attention given to the area northeast of Abergwesyn. New data refine thickness estimates for the Cerriggwynion Formation, the Trembyd Formation (new), and the Cefn Cynllaith Formation (new). The major Bron Rhudd Fault is suggested to have been a synsedimentary down-to-basin fault which was later reactivated, folded, and suffered local reversal of throw. Roll-over into this fault controlled deposition of mass-flow conglomerates in a perched basin. During the late Ordovician-early Silurian the axis of the Tywi Anticline underlay a non-depositional slope which developed by northwest-directed progradation of a shelf margin, possibly accentuated by flexure over a basement fault zone with contemporaneous basin-down normal movement. The slope angle cannot be estimated from the geometry of the Ordovician because the contemporaneous throw on the Bron Rhudd Fault cannot be determined, but from the rate of Silurian onlap it was about 5 degrees.  相似文献