Albian and Cenomanian in the central and southern Münsterland (NW Germany) - Stratigraphy, Facies, Paleogeography)

Frieg, C.; Hiß, Martin; Kaever, Matthias

doi:10.1127/njgpa/181/1990/325

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“…During the Cenomanian, the coastline significantly retreated towards the south onto Rhenobohemia (e.g., Bärtling 1920;Hiss 1982a;Frieg et al 1990;Tröger and Schubert 1993;Wilmsen 2003) and the lithological development of Cenomanian successions is very similar throughout sections across northern Germany (Figs. 2,3,5).…”

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“…Its base is mainly Early Cenomanian in age (Mantelliceras mantelli Zone). The age of the top of the Essen Greensand, however, may range from the Early Cenomanian into the Late Cenomanian (e.g., in the SW Münsterland; Bärtling 1920;Frieg et al 1990). The Essen Greensand contains a marine fauna (cephalopods, bivalves, rare sponges).…”

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“…In the southwestern Münsterland (proximal setting), the typical lithological subdivision of the Cenomanian is not developed. Here, the Essen Greensand can range into the Upper Cenomanian and may be directly overlain by Pläner or Poor rhotomagense Limestones (Bärtling 1920;Frieg et al 1990). …”

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“…The nekton (or nektobenthos) is dominated by planispiral and heteromorph ammonites. In the southeastern Münsterland, the (lower) Pläner limestones are partly developed in spiculitic, flint-bearing facies (Hiss 1982c(Hiss , 1985(Hiss , 1989Frieg et al 1990). Towards the top of the Pläner Limestones, which characterize the mid-shelf environment of the Cenomanian sea, marl beds become thinner and macrofauna increasingly sparse.…”

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“…The study area is marked and enlarged in B. B Regional palaeogeography, Late Albian to Late Cenomanian shoreline positions (based on Hiss 1982a andFrieg et al 1990), and location of sections mentioned in the text (map modified after Hiss 1995) spatial and temporal facies development in a nearshore to distal shelf transect for the Cenomanian shelf sea of northern Germany was still missing.…”

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The Cenomanian of northern Germany: facies analysis of a transgressive biosedimentary system

Wilmsen¹,

Niebuhr²,

Hiß

2005

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A facies analysis of the epicontinental marine Cenomanian sediments of northern Germany shows the presence of 17 facies types (FTs, including several subtypes) which can be assigned to three facies associations: 1) an inner shelf facies association (FT 1-8) with high amounts of terrigenous material and/or high-energy depositional features, 2) a middle shelf facies association (FT 9-15) of predominantly calcareous sediments with moderate amounts of generally fine siliciclastics, and 3) an outer shelf facies association (FT 16-17) of low-energy, fine-grained, pure limestones. These three facies associations roughly correspond to the well-known lithological units of the Cenomanian of northern Germany, i.e., the Essen Greensand/Cenomanian Marls complex, the Pläner Limestones, and the Poor rhotomagense Limestones. The sediments were deposited on a northward-dipping homoclinal ramp with more-or-less shoreline-parallel facies belts. The sediment composition on this ramp-like shelf was a function of the varying importance of three different sediment sources: 1) terrigenous input from the south (Rhenobohemia), generally fining/decreasing in a proximal-distal (i.e., S-N) direction; 2) production of skeletal grains, mainly by macrobenthic organisms; and 3) settling of planktic carbonate (mainly calcispheres and calcareous nannofossils). In response to decreasing water energy with increasing water depth, the seaward decreasing terrigenous influence, and increasing planktic carbonate production, increasingly finer and more calcareous sediments were deposited in a proximal-distal transect. This rather straightforward picture was slightly modified by highest carbonate accumu-M. Wilmsen ( ) · B. Niebuhr

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