Ichnology and Event Stratigraphy: The Use of Trace Fossils in Recognizing Tempestites

Pemberton, S. George; MacEachern, James A.; Ranger, Michael J.

doi:10.2110/cor.92.01.0085

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“…Trace fossils are represented by the Skolithos and Cruziana ichnofacies, indicating an alternating energy regime and a well oxygenated substrate (Pemberton et al, 1992).…”

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Early Cretaceous crustacean microcoprolites from Sierra de la Cara Cura, Neuquén Basin, Argentina: Taphonomy, environmental distribution, and stratigraphic correlation

Kietzmann

Palma

2014

Cretaceous Research

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“…Trace fossils are represented by the Skolithos and Cruziana ichnofacies, indicating an alternating energy regime and a well oxygenated substrate (Pemberton et al, 1992).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Early Cretaceous crustacean microcoprolites from Sierra de la Cara Cura, Neuquén Basin, Argentina: Taphonomy, environmental distribution, and stratigraphic correlation

Kietzmann

Palma

2014

Cretaceous Research

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“…Fair-weather conditions contributed to the widespread development of Thalassinoides, which reached their greatest abundance in these deposits. In this context, Thalassinoides represents the opportunistic post-storm colonization (Pemberton et al, 1992c(Pemberton et al, , 2001, subsisting in the substrate while the salinity values permitted (oligohaline waters: see Wignall, 1991;Netto and Rossetti, 2003). The Taenidium-Planolites suite is a relict of the original resident non-marine endofauna, characterizing pre-storm colonization, when freshwater conditions apparently prevailed (Fig.…”

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First evidence of marine influence in the Cretaceous of the Amazonas Basin, Brazil

Rossetti

Netto

2006

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An integrated investigation emphasizing sedimentological and ichnological studies of Cretaceous deposits of the Alter do Chão Formation, exposed in the western Amazonas Basin, was undertaken with the aim of determining depositional environments. Four facies associations attributed to upper shoreface, foreshore, delta mouth bar, and lower/middle shoreface-prodelta depositional environments are recognized. The upper shoreface deposits were deposited by storm flows. They are interbedded with highly bioturbated sandstones displaying Thalassinoides, Planolites and Diplocraterion traces. The foreshore deposits, which are coarser-grained than the shoreface strata, are characterized by tabular sandstones displaying planar or trough cross-lamination/stratification, wavy/flaser lamination, and parallel lamination. These strata also contain an abundance of trace fossils. The delta mouth bar deposits comprise upward-coarsening beds displaying a lobed geometry. The lower/middle shoreface-prodelta settings consist of well-stratified, very fine-grained sandstones and mudstones deposited mostly by storm action. A wavedominated delta system that prograded into a marine-influenced basin is supported for the study area. Therefore, in contrast to previous interpretations, it seems that a widespread Cretaceous transgression resulted in the submergence of large continental areas in the north of Brazil, affecting sediment deposition even in the innermost portions of the intracratonic Amazonas Basin.

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“…Thicker tempestites in the Vøringen Member contain typical storm suites of trace fossils represented by Arenicolites, produced by filter feeders brought in by storm currents. Nereites, Phycosiphon and Zoophycos represent the background ichnofauna which was active between storm events (e.g., Frey & Goldring 1992;Pemberton et al 1992;Pemberton & MacEachern 1997; and references therein). …”

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Depositional environment, ichnological features and oxygenation of Permian to earliest Triassic marine sediments in central Spitsbergen, Svalbard

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Ichnology and Event Stratigraphy: The Use of Trace Fossils in Recognizing Tempestites

Cited by 49 publications

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Early Cretaceous crustacean microcoprolites from Sierra de la Cara Cura, Neuquén Basin, Argentina: Taphonomy, environmental distribution, and stratigraphic correlation

Early Cretaceous crustacean microcoprolites from Sierra de la Cara Cura, Neuquén Basin, Argentina: Taphonomy, environmental distribution, and stratigraphic correlation

First evidence of marine influence in the Cretaceous of the Amazonas Basin, Brazil

Depositional environment, ichnological features and oxygenation of Permian to earliest Triassic marine sediments in central Spitsbergen, Svalbard

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