Late Paleozoic Transgressive-Regressive Deposition

Ross, Charles A.; Ross, June R. P.

doi:10.2110/pec.88.01.0227

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“…Once entrained, the pattern of deposition on the cratonic margins suggests repeated rises and falls of sea level (Ross & Ross 1988), probably paralleling those seen in the current ice age that result from the expansion and contraction of large facies (DiMichele et al 1996). Such changes in sea level were likely major contributors to perceived periodicity of depositional cycles in Late Carboniferous rocks, particularly on the craton.…”

Section: Late Carboniferous Climatementioning

confidence: 69%

Response of Late Carboniferous and Early Permian Plant Communities to Climate Change

DiMichele

Pfefferkorn

Gastaldo

2001

Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci.

208

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Late Carboniferous and Early Permian strata record the transition from a cold interval in Earth history, characterized by the repeated periods of glaciation and deglaciation of the southern pole, to a warm-climate interval. Consequently, this time period is the best available analogue to the Recent in which to study patterns of vegetational response, both to glacial-interglacial oscillation and to the appearance of warm climate. Carboniferous wetland ecosystems were dominated by spore-producing plants and early gymnospermous seed plants. Global climate changes, largely drying,forced vegetational changes, resulting in a change to a seed plant-dominated world, beginning first at high latitudes during the Carboniferous, reaching the tropics near the Permo-Carboniferous boundary. For most of this time plant assemblages were very conservative in their composition. Change in the dominant vegetation was generally a rapid process, which suggests that environmental thresholds were crossed, and involved little mixing of elements from the wet and dry floras. The US Government has the right to retain a nonexclusive, royalty-free licence in and to any copyright covering this paper. Key Words ecosystem stability, glaciation, biome, coal, extinction s Abstract Late Carboniferous and Early Permian strata record the transition from a cold interval in Earth history, characterized by the repeated periods of glaciation and deglaciation of the southern pole, to a warm-climate interval. Consequently, this time period is the best available analogue to the Recent in which to study patterns of vegetational response, both to glacial-interglacial oscillation and to the appearance of warm climate. Carboniferous wetland ecosystems were dominated by spore-producing plants and early gymnospermous seed plants. Global climate changes, largely drying, forced vegetational changes, resulting in a change to a seed plant-dominated world, beginning first at high latitudes during the Carboniferous, reaching the tropics near the Permo-Carboniferous boundary. For most of this time plant assemblages were very conservative in their composition. Change in the dominant vegetation was generally a rapid process, which suggests that environmental thresholds were crossed, and involved little mixing of elements from the wet and dry floras.

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Section: Late Carboniferous Climatementioning

confidence: 69%

Response of Late Carboniferous and Early Permian Plant Communities to Climate Change

DiMichele

Pfefferkorn

Gastaldo

2001

Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci.

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“…Lithofacies in the Midcontinent Permian range from red beds interbedded with marine limestone low in the section, to entirely continental red beds and evaporites high in the section (McKee and Oriel 1967). This transition reflects a well-documented eustatic and climatic shift driven by (1) the evolution from the Permo-Carboniferous icehouse climate to full greenhouse conditions in the Permo-Triassic (Frakes 1979), with attendant high-frequency glacioeustasy detectable predominately low in the section (e.g., Heckel 2008) and (2) the gradual emergence of the Pangaean supercontinent, as relative sea level reached its Phanerozoic minimum near the end of the Permian (Ross and Ross 1988. The latter trend resulted in the predominance of continental over marine deposition through most of the Permian in the Midcontinent and indeed globally (e.g., Golonka and Ford 2000).…”

Section: Geologic Settingmentioning

confidence: 94%

The paleoclimatic and geochronologic utility of coring red beds and evaporites: a case study from the RKB core (Permian, Kansas, USA)

Soreghan

Benison

Foster

et al. 2014

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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Drill core is critical for robust and high-resolution reconstructions of Earth’s climate record, as well demonstrated from both marine successions and modern long-lived lake systems. Deep-time climate reconstructions increasingly require core-based data, but some facies, notably red beds and evaporites, have garnered less attention for both paleoclimatic and geochronologic analyses. Here, we highlight studies from the Rebecca K. Bounds (RKB) core, a nearly continuous, >1.6 km drill core extending from the Cretaceous to the Mississippian, recovered from the US Midcontinent by Amoco Production Company in 1988, and serendipitously made available for academic research. Recent research conducted on this core illustrates the potential to recover high-resolution data for geochronologic and climatic reconstructions from both the fine-grained red bed strata, which largely represent paleo-loess deposits, and associated evaporite strata. In this case, availability of core was instrumental for (1) accessing a continuous vertical section that establishes unambiguous superposition key to both magnetostratigraphic and paleoclimatic analyses, and (2) providing pristine sample material from friable, soluble, and/or lithofacies and mineralogical species otherwise poorly preserved in surface exposures. The potential for high-resolution paleoclimatic reconstruction from coring of deep-time loess strata in particular remains severely underutilized.

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“…These correlations allowed us to check, to detail, to complete and to globalize the Belgian Dinantian sequence stratigraphy . Moreover, the two sequences recognized in the uppermost Viséan (upper Warnantian, British Brigantian substage), by Giles (1981) and Ross & Ross (1988) were well recognized in South China and integrated in the global model of Hance and co-authors (Poty et al, 2011b).…”

Section: Sequence Stratigraphymentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Therefore, the boundaries between the Ramsbottom's cycles roughly correspond to the maximum flooding surface of the third-order cyclicity model. However, Ramsbottom's mesothems were included in the Dinantian cycle chart of Ross & Ross (1988), and then, incorrectly and without any discussion or emendation, in more recent papers such as in Haq & Schutter (2008).…”

Section: Sequence Stratigraphymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Dinantian (Mississippian) succession of southern Belgium and surrounding areas: stratigraphy improvement and inferred climate reconstruction

Poty¹

2016

Geol. Belg.

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ABSTRACT. The interactions between sea-level changes, local and global tectonics, and palaeoclimates have influenced the sedimentary deposition and the stratigraphy of the Belgian Dinantian. This paper emends the Belgian Dinantian sequence stratigraphy pattern and the third-order sequence 4 is divided into two sequences (4A, 4B). We also confirm that the sudden sea-level drop corresponding to the Hangenberg Sandstone at the Devonian -Carboniferous transition does not correspond to a third-order sequence boundary, but to an out-of-sequence event. The stratigraphy of the Tournaisian in the Namur, South Avesnois and Vesdre -Aachen sedimentation areas is clarified and leads to restrict the latter area to the Aachen vicinity only. The shape of the Namur -Dinant basin is revised and shows a migration of the depocenter northward during Dinantian times. During the Tournaisian, precession cycles are well developed and correspond to alternations of monsoon and dryer climates, without marked changes in the sea level. However, superimposed on these alternations, the Tournaisian third-order sequences recorded higher sea-level variations, which are considered to be due to glacioeustatism, indicating long-duration period of ice formation. The very strong fall in the sea-level at the Tournaisian -Viséan boundary is considered to record the development of an ice-cap and to a heralding change to the Carboniferous climate with glaciations. From that time (sequence 5), marked eccentricity parasequences developed during the Viséan, recording alternating shorter interglacial-glacial periods. Thus, the onset of the Carboniferous glaciations is as early as the Early Viséan and not in the Late Viséan as usually considered.

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Late Paleozoic Transgressive-Regressive Deposition

Cited by 168 publications

References 17 publications

Response of Late Carboniferous and Early Permian Plant Communities to Climate Change

Response of Late Carboniferous and Early Permian Plant Communities to Climate Change

The paleoclimatic and geochronologic utility of coring red beds and evaporites: a case study from the RKB core (Permian, Kansas, USA)

The Dinantian (Mississippian) succession of southern Belgium and surrounding areas: stratigraphy improvement and inferred climate reconstruction

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