A 180-Million-Year Record of Sea Level and Ice Volume Variations from Continental Margin and Deep-Sea Isotopic Records

Miller, Kenneth G.; Mountain, Gregory S.; Wright, James D.; Browning, James V.

doi:10.5670/oceanog.2011.26

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“…With the new glaciations in the northern hemisphere, at the end of the Pliocene and Pleistocene (Miller 2011), new erosion on the continental basins increased the sedimentary income on the Foz do Amazonas Basin and on its submarine fan. At this time, deposition of the Tucunaré Formation sandy deposits on the Marajó Basin and upon the Continental Platform (Figueiredo et al 2007), and sedimentation of thin clastics of Pirarucu and Orange formations on the slope and deep regions, respectively, have increased.…”

Section: Amazonia Structural Arches Genesis and Paleogeography Gurupámentioning

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“…At the close of the Pliocene and Pleistocene, sea level oscillations (Miller et al 2011), due to glaciations in the northern hemisphere, including the Andes (McDaniel et al 1997), deepened the drainage several times, eroding most of the material previously deposited in the valleys and floodplains. Since several glacial and interglacial stages occurred, with consequent droppings and risings of sea level, several differently-aged fluvial terraces were built up along the rivers of Brazilian Amazon and other neighboring countries (Franzinelli & Ori 1988, Rossetti et al 2005, Gonçalves Junior 2013, Carlotto et al 2008, Soares et al 2010a).…”

Section: Amazon Rivermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Eustatic and tectonic change effects in the reversion of the transcontinental Amazon River drainage system

Caputo

Soares

2016

Braz. J. Geol.

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The development of the transcontinental Amazon River System involved geological events in the Andes Chain; Vaupés, Purus and Gurupá arches; sedimentary basins of the region and sea level changes. The origin and age of this river have been discussed for decades, and many ideas have been proposed, including those pertaining to it having originated in the Holocene, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Late Miocene, or even earlier times. Under this context, the geology of the sedimentary basins of northern Brazil has been analyzed from the Mesozoic time on, and some clarifications are placed on its stratigraphy. Vaupés Arch, in Colombia, was uplifted together with the Andean Mountains in the Middle Miocene time. In the Cenozoic Era, the Purus Arch has not blocked this drainage system westward to marine basins of Western South America or eastward to the Atlantic Ocean. Also the Gurupá Arch remained high up to the end of Middle Miocene, directing this drainage system westward. With the late subsidence and breaching of the Gurupá Arch and a major fall in sea level, at the beginning of the Late Miocene, the Amazon River quickly opened its pathway to the west, from the Marajó Basin, through deep headward erosion, capturing a vast drainage network from cratonic and Andean areas, which had previously been diverted towards the Caribbean Sea. During this time, the large siliciclastic influx to the Amazon Mouth (Foz do Amazonas) Basin and its fan increased, due to erosion of large tracts of South America, linking the Amazon drainage network to that of the Marajó Basin. This extensive exposure originated the Late Miocene (Tortonian) unconformity, which marks the onset of the transcontinental Amazon River flowing into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Section: Amazonia Structural Arches Genesis and Paleogeography Gurupámentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Amazon Rivermentioning

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Eustatic and tectonic change effects in the reversion of the transcontinental Amazon River drainage system

Caputo

Soares

2016

Braz. J. Geol.

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“…Miller et al, 1991;Quaijtaal et al, 2014) and caused a relative sea-level fall of e.g. ∼ 60 m in the New Jersey shelf area (Miller et al, 2011). Furthermore, the early Miocene witnessed the spread of biomes dominated by grasses (Poaceae; Jacobs et al, 1999;Willis and McElwain, 2002;Strömberg, 2005).…”

Section: U Kotthoff Et Al: Late Eocene To Middle Miocene Vegetationmentioning

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Late Eocene to middle Miocene (33 to 13 million years ago) vegetation and climate development on the North American Atlantic Coastal Plain (IODP Expedition 313, Site M0027)

Kotthoff¹,

Greenwood

McCarthy

et al. 2014

Clim. Past

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Abstract.We investigated the palynology of sediment cores from Site M0027 of IODP (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program) Expedition 313 on the New Jersey shallow shelf to examine vegetation and climate dynamics on the east coast of North America between 33 and 13 million years ago and to assess the impact of over-regional climate events on the region. Palynological results are complemented with pollenbased quantitative climate reconstructions. Our results indicate that the hinterland vegetation of the New Jersey shelf was characterized by oak-hickory forests in the lowlands and conifer-dominated vegetation in the highlands from the early Oligocene to the middle Miocene. The Oligocene witnessed several expansions of conifer forest, probably related to cooling events. The pollen-based climate data imply an increase in annual temperatures from ∼ 11.5 • C to more than 16 • C during the Oligocene.The Mi-1 cooling event at the onset of the Miocene is reflected by an expansion of conifers and mean annual temperature decrease of ∼ 4 • C, from ∼ 16 • C to ∼ 12 • C around 23 million years before present. Relatively low annual temperatures are also recorded for several samples during an interval around ∼ 20 million years before present, which may reflect the Mi-1a and the Mi-1aa cooling events. Generally, the Miocene ecosystem and climate conditions were very similar to those of the Oligocene. Miocene grasslands, as known from other areas in the USA during that time period, are not evident for the hinterland of the New Jersey shelf, possibly reflecting moisture from the proto-Gulf Stream.The palaeovegetation data reveal stable conditions during the mid-Miocene climatic optimum at ∼ 15 million years before present, with only a minor increase in deciduousevergreen mixed forest taxa and a decrease in swamp forest taxa. Pollen-based annual temperature reconstructions show average annual temperatures of ∼ 14 • C during the midMiocene climatic optimum, ∼ 2 • C higher than today, but ∼ 1.5 • C lower than preceding and following phases of the Miocene. We conclude that vegetation and regional climate in the hinterland of the New Jersey shelf did not react as sensitively to Oligocene and Miocene climate changes as other regions in North America or Europe due to the moderating effects of the North Atlantic. An additional explanation for the relatively low regional temperatures reconstructed for the mid-Miocene climatic optimum could be an uplift of the Appalachian Mountains during the Miocene, which would also have influenced the catchment area of our pollen record.

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“…Uncertainties on the denudation rate are too high to determine the exact end of ria infilling with the present-day coastline, but it gives a maximum age of 3.4 Ma. Moreover, larger scale fluctuations in sea level since 3.4 Ma (Miller et al, 2011;Gorini et al, 2014) make the history of infilling complex, and the assumption of a constant denudation rate probably wrong. In any case, the predicted age does not contradict the marine flooding of the Leucate -La Franqui Plateau estimated at 3.8 Ma (Fig.…”

Section: Estimated Age Of the End Of Infillingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This scheme was tested with regards to the fluctuations of the global sea level (Miller et al, 2011;Gorini et al, 2014) (Fig. 18).…”

Section: Attempt At Correlation With Sea Level Fluctuationsmentioning

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The Roussillon Basin (S. France): A case-study to distinguish local and regional events between 6 and 3 Ma

Clauzon

Strat²,

Duvail³

et al. 2015

Marine and Petroleum Geology

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The Roussillon Basin is a non-silled Miocene sedimentary basin filling a late Oligocene-early Miocene graben. The basin was intensively impacted by the 2 Messinian fluvial erosion, as evidenced in exposed sections, in seismic profiles and in deep boreholes drilled for hydrocarbon exploration. As the basin was open to the Mediterranean Sea, the huge drop in sea level at the peak of the Messinian Salinity Crisis is clearly recorded, along with the subsequent sudden marine reflooding and the resulting prograding sedimentary filling, particularly in Gilbert-type fan deltas. Here, the Messinian Erosional Surface (MES) is accurately mapped in a high-resolution document, which corrects the confusion resulting from the set of 1:50,000 scale regional maps. Aim of the 3D reconstruction of the MES is to modernize geological mapping, a crucial challenge for Mediterranean and peripheral areas. Thanks to a reliable chronostratigraphy provided by planktonic foraminifers, calcareous nannofossils, micro-and macro-mammal remains, paleomagnetism and a 10 Be cosmogenic nuclide-derived study, our reconstruction is one of the most comprehensive models of changes in sea level from 6 to 3 Ma. After the marine reflooding of the Mediterranean Basin at 5.46 Ma, the fluctuations in sea level recorded in the Roussillon Basin were forced by global changes. Following reflooding, the Prades large olistostrome collapsed prepared by the previous exhumation along the Canigou fault. The olistostrome is a good example of a local accident resulting from Messinian events. The exceptional changes in sea level at the peak of the Messinian Salinity Crisis deeply marked the Roussillon Basin, momentarily overprinting the Pyrenean orogenesis.

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A 180-Million-Year Record of Sea Level and Ice Volume Variations from Continental Margin and Deep-Sea Isotopic Records

Cited by 433 publications

References 29 publications

Eustatic and tectonic change effects in the reversion of the transcontinental Amazon River drainage system

Eustatic and tectonic change effects in the reversion of the transcontinental Amazon River drainage system

Late Eocene to middle Miocene (33 to 13 million years ago) vegetation and climate development on the North American Atlantic Coastal Plain (IODP Expedition 313, Site M0027)

The Roussillon Basin (S. France): A case-study to distinguish local and regional events between 6 and 3 Ma

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