Astronomical time scale for the Middle Oxfordian to Late Kimmeridgian in the Swiss and French Jura Mountains |
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| Authors: | André Strasser |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Pérolles, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | Detailed investigation of facies and sedimentary structures reveals that, during the Middle Oxfordian to Late Kimmeridgian,
the shallow carbonate platform of the Swiss and French Jura Mountains recorded high-frequency sea-level fluctuations quite
faithfully. The cyclostratigraphic analysis within the established biostratigraphic and sequence-chronostratigraphic framework
implies that the resulting hierarchically stacked depositional sequences formed in tune with the orbital cycles of precession
(20 kyr) and eccentricity (100 and 400 kyr). The astronomical time scale presented here is based on the correlation of 19
platform sections and 4 hemipelagic sections from south-eastern France where good biostratigraphic control is available. The
cyclostratigraphic interpretation suggests that the interval between sequence boundaries Ox4 and Kim1 (early Middle Oxfordian
to earliest Kimmeridgian) lasted 3.2 myr and that the Kimmeridgian sensu gallico has a duration of 3.2 to 3.3 myr. The astronomical time scale proposed here is compared to time scales established by other
authors in other regions and the discrepancies are discussed. Despite these discrepancies, there is a potential to estimate
the durations of ammonite zones and depositional sequences more precisely and to better evaluate the rates of sedimentary,
ecological and diagenetic processes.
Editorial handling: Hanspeter Funk, Helmut Weissert, Stefan Bucher |
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| Keywords: | Astronomical time scale Cyclostratigraphy Oxfordian Kimmeridgian Jura Mountains |
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