scholarly journals Early-Middle Jurassic stepwise deepening in the transitional facies belt between the Adriatic Carbonte Platform Basement and Neo-Tethys open shelf in northeastern Montenegro evidenced by new ammonoid data from the early Late Pliensbachian (Lavinianum Zone)

Author(s):  
Martin Djakovic ◽  
Hans-Jürgen Gawlick ◽  
Milan Sudar

New ammonoid data prove an early Late Pliensbachian deepening event above the ?Late Hettangian-Sinemurian shallow-subtidal gray-reddish micro-oncoidal-foraminifera grainstone facies and the ?Early Pliensbachian deeper-marine micro-oncoidal-crinoidal-ammonoid wacke- to packstone facies. Based on the presence of Fuciniceras lavinianum (Fucini), Lytoceras ovimontanum Geyer and Arieticeratinae gen. indet. from a hardground above the deeper-water micro-oncoidal limestones in the Mihajlovici section (northeastern Montenegro) a Late Pliensbachian to Early Toarcian condensation horizon is proven. The Middle Toarcian ammonoid-bearing horizon also yielded species not known from previous studies: Calliphylloceras capitanii (Catullo), Harpoceras subplanatum (Oppel) and Furloceras aff. chelussii (Parisch & Viale), also described in the present paper. These new data prove a stepwise deepening of the depositional area during the Early and the Middle Jurassic reflected in detail in four sedimentary members: 1) ?Late Hettangian to Sinemurian/? earliest Pliensbachian open-marine shallow subtital micro-oncoidal limestone; 2) ?Early to Late Pliensbachian open-marine condensed limestones with few micro-oncoids and more open-marine influence; 3) Toarcian openmarine condensed red limestones with hardgrounds; and 4} condensed red nodular Bositra Limestone. These four members are separated by hardrounds representing Stratigraphie gaps in deposition. The stepwise deepening during the Early-Middle Jurassic follows the general trend of deposition as known in the whole Western Tethys Realm above the Late Triassic Dachstein Carbonate Platform.

Author(s):  
Oliver Zöhrer ◽  
Gawlick Hans-Jürgen ◽  
George Ples ◽  
Milan Sudar ◽  
Divna Jovanovic

In the late Middle to early Late Jurassic carbonate-clastic Sirogojno M?lange in the Zlatibor Mountain there is one roughly 35 m thick overturned block with an intact Late Triassic fore-reefal Dachstein Limestone succession that was studied here for its biostratigraphic age, faunal content and microfacies characteristics. The succession starts with coarse-grained rudstones followed by meter-sized reefal blocks intercalated in partly layered resedimented grainstones and packstones with abundant reef-building organisms like calcareous sponges, corals and encrusting organisms. Inside this part of the succession open-marine influenced layers are rare. The succession continues with a partly turbiditic sequence and chaotic rudstones, densely packed with reef-derived material like broken reef-building organisms and shallow-water material like gastropods, bivalves and foraminifers. Grainstones with clear open-marine influence (e.g., thin-shelled bivalves, crinoids, conodonts) appear in between those rudstones, in cases lumachelle layers consisting of halobiids were deposited. To the end of the succession some layers show turbiditic bedding with mixed shallow- water and deep-marine grains and organisms, i.e. filaments and crinoids. On base of conodonts, foraminifers, calcareous algae, holothurians and halobiids throughout the whole studied succession, a Middle Norian (Alaunian) to Rhaetian 1, most probably a Late Norian (Sevatian) age can be assigned to this forereefal Dachstein Limestone succession, with a similar sedimentation pattern like Late Triassic Dachstein fore-reef limestone facies, e.g., in the Northern Calcareous Alps or the eastern Southern Alps. The study of this block in the Sirogojno M?lange closes an important gap in knowledge about the extent, facies and stratigraphy of the Dachstein Carbonate Platform evolution in the Dinarides.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudolph Scherreiks ◽  
Marcelle Boudagher-Fadel

Seismic tomographic images of the mantle below the Hellenides indicate that the Vardar ocean probably had a composite width of over 3000 kilometres. From surface geology we know that this ocean was initially located between two passive margins: Pelagonian Adria in the west and Serbo-Macedonian-Eurasia in the east. Pelagonia was covered by a carbonate platform that accumulated, during Late Triassic to Early Cretaceous time, where highly diversified carbonate sedimentary environments evolved and reacted to the adjacent, converging Vardar ocean plate. We conceive that on the east side of the Vardar ocean, a Cretaceous carbonate platform evolved from Aptian to Maastrichtian time in the forearc basin of the Vardar supra-subduction volcanic arc complex. The closure of the Vardar ocean occurred in one episode of ophiolite obduction and in two episodes of intra-oceanic subduction.


1990 ◽  
Vol 127 (6) ◽  
pp. 567-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Metcalfe

AbstractThe Chuping Limestone of northwest Peninsular Malaysia, until recently considered entirely of Permian age, has yielded late Triassic (early Norian) conodonts. TheLimestone thus spans the time interval late Early Permian–Late Triassic and is in part equivalent to the Kodiang Limestone (Late Permian–Late Triassic) in Kedah andsimilar limestone sequences in south Thailand and north Sumatra. Early Late Triassic (Carnian) conodonts are also reported from pelagic limestones associated with bedded chertsof the Chert Member of the Semanggol Formation in Kedah. The Chert Member, previously considered of Middle Triassic age, is re-interpreted to represent Early, Middle and early Late Triassic deposition. The Triassic sedimentary rocks of the Malay Peninsula represent three distinct sedimentary regions: a stable shallow marine carbonate complex (ChupingLimestone, Kodiang Limestone), which forms part of an elongate carbonate platform on theSibumasu block; a deep water pelagic/turbidite basinal sequence (Semanggol Formation) which accumulated in either a foredeep basin or an intracratonic pull-apart basin related to strike-slip faulting; and a volcanic-sourced volcaniclastic basinal sequence on the East Malaya block (Semantan Formation and equivalents) which accumulated in either a forearc/intra-arc setting, or in a post-orogenic rift basin.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudolph Scherreiks ◽  
Marcelle BouDagher-Fadel

Seismic tomographic images of the mantle below the Hellenides indicate that the Vardar Ocean probably had a composite width of over 3000 km. From surface geology we know that this ocean was initially located between two passive margins: Pelagonian Adria in the west and Serbo-Macedonian-Eurasia in the east. Pelagonia was covered by a carbonate platform that accumulated, during Late Triassic to Early Cretaceous time, where highly diversified carbonate sedimentary environments evolved and reacted to the adjacent, converging Vardar Ocean plate. We conceive that on the east side of the Vardar Ocean, a Cretaceous carbonate platform evolved from the Aptian to the Maastrichtian time in the forearc basin of the Vardar supra-subduction volcanic arc complex. The closure of the Vardar Ocean occurred in one episode of ophiolite obduction and in two episodes of intra-oceanic subduction. 1. During the Middle Jurassic time a 1200-km slab of west Vardar lithosphere subducted beneath the supra-subduction, ‘Eohellenic’, arc, while a 200-km-wide slab obducted onto Pelagonia between the Callovian and Valanginian times. 2. During the Late Jurassic through to the Cretaceous time a 1700-km-wide slab subducted beneath the evolving east Vardar-zone arc-complex. Pelagonia, the trailing edge of the subducting east-Vardar Ocean slab, crashed and underthrust the Vardar arc complex during the Paleocene time and ultimately crashed with Serbo-Macedonia. Since the late Early Jurassic time, the Hellenides have moved about 3000 km toward the northeast while the Atlantic Ocean spread.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudolph Scherreiks ◽  
Marcelle Boudagher-Fadel

Seismic tomographic images of the mantle below the Hellenides indicate that the Vardar ocean probably had a composite width of over 3000 kilometres. From surface geology we know that this ocean was initially located between two passive margins: Pelagonian Adria in the west and Serbo-Macedonian-Eurasia in the east. Pelagonia was covered by a carbonate platform that accumulated, during Late Triassic to Early Cretaceous time, where highly diversified carbonate sedimentary environments evolved and reacted to the adjacent, converging Vardar ocean plate. We conceive that on the east side of the Vardar ocean, a Cretaceous carbonate platform evolved from Aptian to Maastrichtian time in the forearc basin of the Vardar supra-subduction volcanic arc complex. The closure of the Vardar ocean occurred in one episode of ophiolite obduction and in two episodes of intra-oceanic subduction.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudolph Scherreiks ◽  
Marcelle Boudagher-Fadel

Seismic tomographic images of the mantle below the Hellenides indicate that the Vardar ocean probably had a composite width of over 3000 kilometres. From surface geology we know that this ocean was initially located between two passive margins: Pelagonian Adria in the west and Serbo-Macedonian-Eurasia in the east. Pelagonia was covered by a carbonate platform that accumulated, during Late Triassic to Early Cretaceous time, where highly diversified carbonate sedimentary environments evolved and reacted to the adjacent, converging Vardar ocean plate. We conceive that on the east side of the Vardar ocean, a Cretaceous carbonate platform evolved from Aptian to Maastrichtian time in the forearc basin of the Vardar supra-subduction volcanic arc complex. The closure of the Vardar ocean occurred in one episode of ophiolite obduction and in two episodes of intra-oceanic subduction.


2012 ◽  
Vol 183 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ugur Kagan Tekin ◽  
M. Cemal Göncüoglu ◽  
Seda Uzuncimen

Abstract The Bornova Flysch Zone (BFZ) in NW Anatolia comprises several olistoliths or tectonic slivers, representing various parts of the Izmir-Ankara ocean. Radiolarian assemblages extracted from one of the olistoliths of the BFZ, cropping out along the Sögütlü section, to the NE Manisa city, were studied in detail. The lowermost part of the section contains latest Bajocian – early Callovian radiolarian taxa, followed by radiolarian assemblages indicating Late Jurassic to early Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) ages. Previous studies reveal that the Izmir-Ankara oceanic basin was initially opened during late Ladinian – early Carnian. The new radiolarian data obtained from this olistolith reveals that relatively condensed, and possibly more or less continuous, pelagic sedimentation took place during the late Middle Jurassic to early Late Cretaceous in a non-volcanic oceanic basin closer to the Tauride-Anatolide platform margin.


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