Lateral variability of shallow-water facies and high-frequency cycles in foreland basin carbonate platforms (Pennsylvanian, NW Spain)

Facies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan R. Bahamonde ◽  
Giovanna Della Porta ◽  
Oscar A. Merino-Tomé
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Carbonate Platforms ◽  
Nw Spain ◽  
Water Facies

Pennsylvanian carbonate platforms adjacent to deltaic systems in an active marine foreland basin (Escalada Fm., Cantabrian Zone, NW Spain)

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Ramón Bahamonde ◽  
Oscar Merino-Tomé ◽  
Giovanna Della Porta ◽  
Elisa Villa
Keyword(s):  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Carbonate Platforms ◽  
Nw Spain ◽  
Cantabrian Zone

scholarly journals The Late Jurassic–Palaeogene Carbonate Platforms in the Outer Western Carpathian Tethys—A Regional Overview

Minerals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 747
Author(s):  
Justyna Kowal-Kasprzyk ◽  
Anna Waśkowska ◽  
Jan Golonka ◽  
Michał Krobicki ◽  
Petr Skupien ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Plate Tectonics ◽  
Late Jurassic ◽  
Clastic Material ◽  
Carbonate Platforms ◽  
Larger Benthic Foraminifera ◽  
Facies Associations ◽  
Carbonate Deposition ◽  
Tethys Platform ◽  
Water Facies

The present work focuses on palaeogeographic reconstruction of shallow-water carbonate deposition in the Outer Western Carpathian Tethys. Platform deposits are preserved only as a component of turbidites and olistostromes, and reconstructions of these platforms are based on clastic material redistributed into slopes and deep basins and occurring among the Outer Carpathian nappes. Similar platforms were also present on the Tethys margins. These reconstructions were performed using the global models of plate tectonics. Several ridges covered by carbonate platforms developed in that area during the latest Jurassic–Palaeogene times. Three main shallow-water facies associations—Štramberk, Urgonian, and Lithothamnion–bryozoan—could be distinguished. The Tithonian–lowermost Cretaceous Štramberk facies is related to early, synrift–postrift stage of the development of the Silesian Domain. Facies that are diversified, narrow, shallow-water platforms, rich in corals, sponges, green algae, echinoderms, foraminifera, microencrusters, and microbes are typical of this stage. The Urgonian facies developed mainly on the south margin of the Outer Carpathian basins and is characterised by organodetritic limestones built of bivalves (including rudists), larger benthic foraminifera, crinoids, echinoids, and corals. Since the Paleocene, in all the Western Outer Carpathian sedimentary areas, Lithothamnion–bryozoan facies developed and adapted to unstable conditions. Algae–bryozoan covers originating on the siliciclastic substrate are typical of these facies. This type of deposition was preserved practically until the final stage in the evolution of the Outer Carpathian basins.

scholarly journals Triassic metasediments in the internal Dinarides (Kopaonik area, southern Serbia): stratigraphy, paleogeographic and tectonic significance

2010 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Senecio Schefer ◽  
Daniel Egli ◽  
Sigrid Missoni ◽  
Daniel Bernoulli ◽  
Bernhard Fügenschuh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Lower Triassic ◽  
Turbidity Currents ◽  
Distal Margin ◽  
Carbonate Platforms ◽  
Carbonate Production ◽  
Tectonic Significance ◽  
Internal Dinarides ◽  
Water Carbonate ◽  
Shallow Water Carbonate

Triassic metasediments in the internal Dinarides (Kopaonik area, southern Serbia): stratigraphy, paleogeographic and tectonic significanceStrongly deformed and metamorphosed sediments in the Studenica Valley and Kopaonik area in southern Serbia expose the easternmost occurrences of Triassic sediments in the Dinarides. In these areas, Upper Paleozoic terrigenous sediments are overlain by Lower Triassic siliciclastics and limestones and by Anisian shallow-water carbonates. A pronounced facies change to hemipelagic and distal turbiditic, cherty metalimestones (Kopaonik Formation) testifies a Late Anisian drowning of the former shallow-water carbonate shelf. Sedimentation of the Kopaonik Formation was contemporaneous with shallow-water carbonate production on nearby carbonate platforms that were the source areas of diluted turbidity currents reaching the depositional area of this formation. The Kopaonik Formation was dated by conodont faunas as Late Anisian to Norian and possibly extends into the Early Jurassic. It is therefore considered an equivalent of the grey Hallstatt facies of the Eastern Alps, the Western Carpathians, and the Albanides-Hellenides. The coeval carbonate platforms were generally situated in more proximal areas of the Adriatic margin, whereas the distal margin was dominated by hemipelagic/pelagic and distal turbiditic sedimentation, facing the evolving Neotethys Ocean to the east. A similar arrangement of Triassic facies belts can be recognized all along the evolving Meliata-Maliac-Vardar branch of Neotethys, which is in line with a ‘one-ocean-hypothesis’ for the Dinarides: all the ophiolites presently located southwest of the Drina-Ivanjica and Kopaonik thrust sheets are derived from an area to the east, and the Drina-Ivanjica and Kopaonik units emerge in tectonic windows from below this ophiolite nappe. On the base of the Triassic facies distribution we see neither argument for an independent Dinaridic Ocean nor evidence for isolated terranes or blocks.

scholarly journals Toe-of-slope facies of the Eocene limestones in Aghioi Pantes sequence (Zakynthos island, Western Greece)

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 699
Author(s):  
Μ. ΚΑΤΗ
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Debris Flows ◽  
Depositional Environment ◽  
Facies Analysis ◽  
Facies Association ◽  
Gravity Flows ◽  
Carbonate Sequence ◽  
Western Greece ◽  
Water Carbonate ◽  
Water Facies

The facies analysis of the Eocene limestones in the Aghioi Pantes section in central Zakynthos, part of the Preapulian carbonate sequence in the greater area, showed three megafacies types: a) graded beds, in which two main subtypes have been recognized, medium- to thin-bedded calcarenites-calcilutites and thick-bedded ruditic calcarenites, consisting mainly of redeposited shallow-water carbonate sands (mostly bioclasts of nummulites and echinoids); based on their sedimentary structures they have been interpreted as low density turbidite and high density turbidite (or sandy debris flows) deposits correspondingly, b) calcareous conglomerates consisting of shallow-water facies lithoclasts and abundant pelagic intraclasts all of which have been interpreted as debris flow deposits and c) folded strata of pelagic-hemipelagic composition that have been interpreted as slumps. Subsequently, the studied limestones constitute exclusively deep-water resedimented facies having been deposited mainly through sediment gravity flows, carrying significant amounts of shallow-water bio- lithoclastic material. The distribution and the organization of this facies association, with the dominance in particular of the base cut-out turbidites, suggest as depositional environment of the studied Eocene limestones a "low" in the outer slope connecting the Preapulian platform with the adjacent Ionian basin.

Shallow-water facies setting around the Kačák Event: a multidisciplinary approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 423 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Königshof ◽  
A. C. Da Silva ◽  
T. J. Suttner ◽  
E. Kido ◽  
J. Waters ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Water Facies
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