scholarly journals Late Pleistocene stratigraphy of IODP Site U1396 and compiled chronology offshore of south and south west Montserrat, Lesser Antilles

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 3000-3020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Wall-Palmer ◽  
Maya Coussens ◽  
Peter J. Talling ◽  
Martin Jutzeler ◽  
Michael Cassidy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
South West

Late Pleistocene tephrochronology of marine sediments adjacent to Montserrat, Lesser Antilles volcanic arc

2008 ◽  
Vol 165 (1) ◽  
pp. 279-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Le Friant ◽  
E.J. Lock ◽  
M.B. Hart ◽  
G. Boudon ◽  
R.S.J. Sparks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Marine Sediments ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
Volcanic Arc

La Désirade island (Guadeloupe, French West Indies): a key target for deciphering the role of reactivated tectonic structures in Lesser Antilles arc building

2013 ◽  
Vol 184 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 21-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Marc Lardeaux ◽  
Philippe Münch ◽  
Michel Corsini ◽  
Jean-Jacques Cornée ◽  
Chrystèle Verati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
Tectonic Structures ◽  
Vertical Movements ◽  
Late Pliocene ◽  
Lesser Antilles Arc

Abstract In this paper we present and discuss new investigations performed on both the magmatic basement and the sedimentary formations of La Désirade. We report structural and sedimentary evidences for several episodes of deformation and displacement occurring prior to the present day tectonics. The main faults, respectively N130 ± 10°, N040 ± 10° and N090 ± 10°, previously considered as marker of the current tectonic regime corresponds to reactivated tectonic structures developed first during late Cretaceous compression and second during Pliocene to early Pleistocene extension. We demonstrate also the importance of late Pliocene-early Pleistocene and middle-late Pleistocene vertical movements in this part of the Lesser Antilles fore-arc as well as the role of compressive tectonics in the over thickened character of the arc basement in the Guadeloupe archipelago.

A late Pleistocene marine glacial refugium in the south-west of Hainan Island, China: Phylogeographical insights from the brown alga Sargassum polycystum

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zi-Min Hu ◽  
Attachai Kantachumpoo ◽  
Ruo-Yu Liu ◽  
Zhong-Min Sun ◽  
Jian-Ting Yao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Brown Alga ◽  
Hainan Island ◽  
Glacial Refugium ◽  
The South ◽  
Sargassum Polycystum ◽  
South West

Pliocene to Pleistocene carbonate systems of the Guadeloupe archipelago, French Lesser Antilles: a land and sea study (the KaShallow project)

2013 ◽  
Vol 184 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 99-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Münch ◽  
Jean-Frédéric. Lebrun ◽  
Jean-Jacques Cornée ◽  
Isabelle Thinon ◽  
Pol Guennoc ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reefs ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Late Miocene ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
Carbonate Platforms ◽  
Bank Deposits ◽  
Extensional Tectonic ◽  
Red Algal ◽  
Reef Platform

AbstractThis work presents a synthesis of the present-day knowledge on both emerged and submerged carbonate platforms of the Guadeloupe archipelago. Onshore and offshore data acquired during the KaShallow project are presented. Since the early Zanclean, some isolated platforms developed onto a Jurassic to Tortonian basement which displayed reliefs inherited from a major extensional tectonic episode dated from −8 to −5 Ma. Marie-Galante, Grande Terre and the southern shelf of Grande-Terre show strong similarities with Zanclean to Gelasian red-algal facies upward changing into early Calabrian coral facies. A major erosional unconformity (SB2) was recognized and allows to distinguish two early Calabrian formations (Calcaires à Agaricia Formation and Calcaires à Acropora Formation). The final emersion of these platforms is late Calabrian. The La Désirade platform displays Zanclean to early Piacenzian red-algal facies upward changing into coral facies. This platform emerged as soon as in the late Piacenzian. The island subsided again in relation with later extensional tectonic episode and early Calabrian reef platform then unconformably deposited. The Colombie bank deposits comprise Pliocene basinal deposits overlain by late Calabrian coral reefs. The Flandre bank might have emerged synchronously with La Désirade but was drowned only in the late Pleistocene-Holocene interval. Four extensional tectonic episodes have been identified in the late Miocene-Recent interval. Their effects depend on the location of the platforms within the fore-arc.

scholarly journals Depositional system and palaeoclimatic interpretations of Middle to Late Pleistocene travertines: Kocabaş, Denizli, south-west Turkey

Sedimentology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 1360-1383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ezher Toker ◽  
Mine Sezgül Kayseri-Özer ◽  
Mehmet Özkul ◽  
Sándor Kele
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
South West ◽  
Depositional System

Rock Glaciers of the Dalton Range, Kluane Ranges, South-West Yukon Territory, Canada

1988 ◽  
Vol 34 (118) ◽  
pp. 327-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter G. Johnson ◽  
Diane Lacasse
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Lower Cretaceous ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
Upper Jurassic ◽  
Yukon Territory ◽  
High Susceptibility ◽  
Frost Action ◽  
South West ◽  
Glacier Ice ◽  
Rock Glaciers

Abstract Glaciated valleys of the Dalton Range in the south-west Yukon Territory are dominated by rock glaciers identified as glacier ice-cored debris systems. The two rock glaciers studied have different amounts of deformation at present, resulting from post-formation mechanics. The primary formation of lobes of the rock glaciers resulted from periods of glacier activity in the Neoglacial, although older lobes, probably late Pleistocene in age, occur below the Neoglacial lobes. The hydrological systems of the rock glaciers have played a major role in the post-formation deformation of the land forms and the present drainage system is entirely sub-surface. The explanation for the extensive occurrence of rock glaciers in the Dalton Range is lithological as a result of the high susceptibility of the Upper Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous sediments to frost action and glacier erosion.

scholarly journals Rock Glaciers of the Dalton Range, Kluane Ranges, South-West Yukon Territory, Canada

1988 ◽  
Vol 34 (118) ◽  
pp. 327-332
Author(s):  
Peter G. Johnson ◽  
Diane Lacasse
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Lower Cretaceous ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
Upper Jurassic ◽  
Yukon Territory ◽  
High Susceptibility ◽  
Frost Action ◽  
South West ◽  
Glacier Ice ◽  
Rock Glaciers

AbstractGlaciated valleys of the Dalton Range in the south-west Yukon Territory are dominated by rock glaciers identified as glacier ice-cored debris systems. The two rock glaciers studied have different amounts of deformation at present, resulting from post-formation mechanics.The primary formation of lobes of the rock glaciers resulted from periods of glacier activity in the Neoglacial, although older lobes, probably late Pleistocene in age, occur below the Neoglacial lobes. The hydrological systems of the rock glaciers have played a major role in the post-formation deformation of the land forms and the present drainage system is entirely sub-surface. The explanation for the extensive occurrence of rock glaciers in the Dalton Range is lithological as a result of the high susceptibility of the Upper Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous sediments to frost action and glacier erosion.

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