Phanerozoic transgressions and regressions on the continents; a quantitative approach based on areas flooded by the sea and areas of marine and continental deposition

Ronov, A. B.

doi:10.2475/ajs.294.7.777

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“…9) to the results of other studies ( Fig. 9; Ronov, 1994;Smith et al, 1994;Walker et al, 2002;Blakey, 2003Blakey, , 2008Golonka, 2007bGolonka, , 2009Golonka, , 2012 derived from independent paleoenvironment and paleo-lithofacies data. The results are generally consistent, except for the periods 338-269 Ma and 248-203 Ma, during which the flooded continental areas for this study and Golonka et al (2006) are smaller, reflecting smaller extent Figure 7.…”

Section: Global Flooded Continental Areassupporting

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“…Next, we use the revised paleogeography to estimate the surface areas of global paleogeographic features including deep oceans, shallow marine environments, landmasses, mountains and ice sheets. In addition, we compare the global flooded continental areas since the Devonian calculated from the revised paleogeography with other results derived from other paleoenvironment and paleo-lithofacies maps (Ronov, 1994;Smith et al, 1994;Walker et al, 2002;Blakey, 2003Blakey, , 2008Golonka, 2007bGolonka, , 2009Golonka, , 2012 or from the strontium isotope record (van der Meer et al, 2017). We estimate the terrestrial areal change over time associated with transferring reconstruction, filling gaps and modifying the paleogeographic geometries based on consistency test.…”

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Improving global paleogeography since the late Paleozoic using paleobiology

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Abstract. Paleogeographic reconstructions are important to understand Earth's tectonic evolution, past eustatic and regional sea level change, paleoclimate and ocean circulation, deep Earth resources and to constrain and interpret the dynamic topography predicted by mantle convection models. Global paleogeographic maps have been compiled and published, but they are generally presented as static maps with varying map projections, different time intervals represented by the maps and different plate motion models that underlie the paleogeographic reconstructions. This makes it difficult to convert the maps into a digital form and link them to alternative digital plate tectonic reconstructions. To address this limitation, we develop a workflow to restore global paleogeographic maps to their present-day coordinates and enable them to be linked to a different tectonic reconstruction. We use marine fossil collections from the Paleobiology Database to identify inconsistencies between their indicative paleoenvironments and published paleogeographic maps, and revise the locations of inferred paleo-coastlines that represent the estimated maximum transgression surfaces by resolving these inconsistencies. As a result, the consistency ratio between the paleogeography and the paleoenvironments indicated by the marine fossil collections is increased from an average of 75 % to nearly full consistency (100 %). The paleogeography in the main regions of North America, South America, Europe and Africa is significantly revised, especially in the Late Carboniferous, Middle Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Late Cretaceous and most of the Cenozoic. The global flooded continental areas since the Early Devonian calculated from the revised paleogeography in this study are generally consistent with results derived from other paleoenvironment and paleo-lithofacies data and with the strontium isotope record in marine carbonates. We also estimate the terrestrial areal change over time associated with transferring reconstruction, filling gaps and modifying the paleogeographic geometries based on the paleobiology test. This indicates that the variation of the underlying plate reconstruction is the main factor that contributes to the terrestrial areal change, and the effect of revising paleogeographic geometries based on paleobiology is secondary.

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“…Global phases of plate assembly and disassembly are known to alter sedimentation and erosion regimes at global scales (Ronov, 1994). A potential proxy tracing these changes is the percentage of continental area covered by seawater, which is a function of eustatic sea level and hypsometry.…”

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Towards an unbiased estimate of fluctuations in reef abundance and volume during the Phanerozoic

Kiessling¹

2006

Biogeosciences

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Abstract. The globally preserved number and volume of ancient biogenic reefs is strongly biased by two factors: geological history and research intensity. These biases are sufficiently strong to cast doubts on the biological meaning of the recorded raw pattern. Without adjustment, it is hard to reliably identify factors potentially controlling the waxing and waning of this important ecosystem through time. Although it is currently impossible to completely compensate for the biases, I demonstrate here, based on a comprehensive database of ancient reefs, that spatiotemporal heterogeneities of the biases can largely be evened out by: (1) omitting oceanic reef sites and reef sites only known from subsurface exploration; (2) standardizing for economic factors known to affect research intensity; and (3) adjusting for sedimentary cycling processes. The resulting curves of fossil reef abundance and volume appear quite different from the original ones but the patterns of waxing and waning of the time series are not significantly altered and the overall volatility is not reduced. This suggests that both the raw curves and the adjusted curves correctly depict the basic timing of major reef blooms and declines. Nevertheless, the general pattern of the new curves (maximum proliferation in the middle Paleozoic, decline thereafter) is more in line with patterns of global cratonic carbonate sedimentation than the original curves. The adjusted curves should thus be preferred over the original ones for future tests of potential extrinsic controls of Phanerozoic reef development.

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“…This decline is characterized by both a substantial decline in reef numbers and a reduction in sampling. Although characterized as a minor reef crisis by Flçgel and Kiessling (2002), there was concern that relative sea-level changes due to the Caledonian Orogeny (Ronov 1994) introduced a sampling bias (Kiessling 2002). The Middle Devonian and Frasnian rise of reefs (Fig.…”

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Sampling-standardized expansion and collapse of reef building in the Phanerozoic

Kiessling

2008

Foss. Rec.

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Tracing the variability of reef production over long temporal scales is important to approach natural processes favoring or suppressing reef growth. Raw compilations of reef abundance per unit of time do not necessarily depict biologically meaningful patterns, because the waxing and waning of reefs might just follow the quality of the fossil record, that is, the amount of paleontological information that is available in general. Here I standardize the published record of Phanerozoic reefs, as stored in the PaleoReefs database, to the published record of marine invertebrate fossils as stored in the Paleobiology Database. The sampling-standardized peaks in reef growth are essentially identical to those of previous studies, but significant peaks are rare. Times when unusual changes in ecological conditions are likely to control changes in metazoan reef proliferation were identified in the Late Devonian, Late Triassic, Late Jurassic and Neogene. <br><br> doi:<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mmng.200700008" target="_blank">10.1002/mmng.200700008</a>

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Phanerozoic transgressions and regressions on the continents; a quantitative approach based on areas flooded by the sea and areas of marine and continental deposition

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Improving global paleogeography since the late Paleozoic using paleobiology

Improving global paleogeography since the late Paleozoic using paleobiology

Towards an unbiased estimate of fluctuations in reef abundance and volume during the Phanerozoic

Sampling-standardized expansion and collapse of reef building in the Phanerozoic

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