The eroded Late Jurassic Kurbnesh carbonate platform in the Mirdita Ophiolite Zone of Albania and its bearing on the Jurassic orogeny of the Neotethys realm |
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| Authors: | Felix Schlagintweit Hans-Jürgen Gawlick Sigrid Missoni Lirim Hoxha Richard Lein Wolfgang Frisch |
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| Institution: | (1) Department for Applied Geosciences and Geophysics: Prospection and Applied Sedimentology, University Leoben, Peter-Tunner-Str. 5, 8700 Leoben, Austria;(2) Geological Survey of Albania, Tirana, Albania;(3) Center for Earth Sciences, University Vienna, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria;(4) Institute of Geosciences, University Tübingen, Sigwartstr. 10, 72076 Tübingen, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Several Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian?-Tithonian) to Early Cretaceous (Late Berriasian-Valanginian) shallow-water carbonate clasts of different facies are contained in mass-flow deposits in a pelagic sequence in the Kurbnesh area of central Albania. These clasts are used to reconstruct shallow-water carbonate platforms, which formed on top of the radiolaritic-ophiolitic wildflysch (ophiolitic mélange) of the Mirdita Zone. Stratigraphic interpretation of the platform carbonates was compiled on basis of calcareous algae, benthic foraminifera, and calpionellids. From biostratigraphic data and microfacies analysis, the Neocomian clasts can be directly correlated with autochthonous platform carbonates of the western part of the Munella carbonate platform, which at least reaches up to the Late Aptian. A Late Jurassic precursor platform (Kurbnesh carbonate platform; nomen novum) was completely eroded until the Valanginian and is only documented by the clasts described here. It was deposited on top of the Mirdita Ophiolite Zone nappe stack, which formed during the Middle to Late Jurassic Kimmeridian orogeny. Thrusting and imbrications as well as the formation of the syntectonic wildflysch (mélange) therefore occurred much earlier than previously assumed. Our results constrain the Kimmeridian orogeny, which was controlled by the closure of the Neotethys Ocean, and show excellent correlation with the Eastalpine-Dinaric- Hellenic orogenic system. |
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| Keywords: | :" target="_blank">: Late Jurassic Early Cretaceous carbonate platform Mirdita Zone Albania Neotethys Kimmeridian orogeny |
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