Sedimentology and stratigraphic architecture of the Late Permian Betts Creek Beds, Queensland, Australia

Allen, Jonathan P.; Fielding, Christopher R.

doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.12.010

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“…Glossopterid roots are typically abundant beneath coal seams attesting to a predominantly autochthonous or hypautochthonous source of organic matter in the coals. The permineralized axes of these plants reach 1 m in diameter and are locally preserved in growth position within mire environments from coastal to alluvial valley settings (McLoughlin, 1993b;Allen and Fielding, 2007). Collectively, these characteristics suggest a growth habit and ecology somewhat similar to that of modern Taxodium distichum (swamp cypress), although Permian glossopterids occupied much higher latitudes than such modern analogues.…”

Section: Plant Macrofossils: Distribution and Compositionmentioning

confidence: 87%

“…The floras of the extensive, but mostly subsurface, Lopingian deposits of the epicratonic Cooper (Toolachee Formation) and Galilee (Betts Creek beds and Bandanna Formation) basins have not been systematically described (Zwigulis, 1983;Allen and Fielding, 2007 (Walkom, 1922;White, 1961b,c) but these assemblages require taxonomic revision. Sparse plant remains are also known from the Condren Sandstone of probable Guadalupian-Lopingian age in the broad epicratonic Canning Basin of northwestern Australia (White, 1961a;Rigby et al, 1988).…”

Section: Plant Macrofossils: Distribution and Compositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Lopingian of Australasia: a review of biostratigraphy, correlations, palaeogeography and palaeobiogeography

Shi

Waterhouse²,

McLoughlin

2010

Geological Journal

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This paper presents an overview of the space and time distributions of Lopingian strata and biotas in Australia, New Zealand, Timor and New Caledonia. Based on this review, we propose a new schematic Late Permian (Lopingian) regional palaeogeographical reconstruction and marine palaeobiogeographical synthesis. The latter also incorporates some key features of the ocean circulation patterns around southeastern Gondwana, inferred primarily from the distribution of regional marine Lopingian faunas.Across Australasia, Lopingian successions accumulated in a wide range of tectonic, palaeoenvironmental and palaeolatitudinal settings. In New Zealand, Lopingian strata are found in several tectonostratigraphical terranes, notably the Brook Street, Dun Mountain–Maitai, Caples, Waipapa and Torlesse terranes/superterranes, each originating as a distinctive basin, island arc or ocean ridge. For the most part, these successions represent displaced segments of volcanic arcs, arc‐flanking clastic aprons, intra‐ and fore‐arc basins and accretionary complexes, some of which have been traced via stratigraphical, biostratigraphical and petrological correlations into New Caledonia and eastern Australia. This spectrum of Lopingian tectono‐sedimentary environments in New Zealand is interpreted to have been originally located near northeastern Australia on a convergent continental margin (i.e. the Panthalassan margin of southeastern Gondwana). Brachiopod and bivalve faunas occur widely throughout the Lopingian successions of New Zealand and have been closely studied. A total of five successive faunal zones are recognized, ranging in age from mid‐late Wuchiapingian to the end of the Changhsingian.In Australia, Lopingian deposits are dominated by non‐marine successions in a large number of widely distributed sedimentary basins; onshore exposures of marine deposits are known only from the Gympie Terrane in eastern Australia and the Canning and Bonaparte basins in Western Australia. Lopingian terrestrial sediments are most extensively represented in eastern Australia within a major meridional foreland basin complex (the Tasmania, Sydney, Gunnedah and Bowen basins), for which the evolution through the Lopingian and Early Triassic was governed by the dynamics of the New England Orogen along the Panthalassan margin of southeastern Gondwana. Most of the non‐marine successions in eastern Australia are rich in coal measures and plant fossils and locally contain well‐preserved non‐marine invertebrate and vertebrate fossils. A succession of six palynostratigraphical zones has been recognized in eastern Australia spanning the Lopingian through the Early Triassic. Several of these palynozones have also been recognized in Western Australia, allowing the discrimination and correlation of Lopingian deposits in both onshore and offshore successions. In contrast to eastern Australia and New Zealand, the marine Lopingian successions of Western Australia and Timor are dominated by carbonates that are only locally interbedded with siliciclastic sediments and sparse volcaniclastics; these successions accumulated in a giant sedimentary basin located on a passive and actively rifting continental margin. Marine connections and free and frequent biotic interchanges between this Western Australian superbasin (including Timor) and the Himalayan region of Nepal, southern Tibet and northern India throughout the Lopingian are evident from the shared occurrences of many shallow‐marine invertebrate species. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: Plant Macrofossils: Distribution and Compositionmentioning

confidence: 87%

Section: Plant Macrofossils: Distribution and Compositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Lopingian of Australasia: a review of biostratigraphy, correlations, palaeogeography and palaeobiogeography

Shi

Waterhouse²,

McLoughlin

2010

Geological Journal

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“…Most likely, deposition began to take place in a lower-energy shallow marine, rather than non-marine environment. The coarsening-upward LF2 units could result from a wide variety of depositional environments, however, the prevalence of ripple structures in peliterich lithologies at the base of the LF2 units, and the presence of mud drapes within the upper trough cross-bed psammitic facies, suggest that the LF2 facies resulted from tidally influenced fluvial deposition within a very distal fluvial braidplain, or shoreline, setting (Yang et al 2008;Allen and Fielding 2007;Fisher et al 2007;Plint and Walker 1992;Roberts 2007;Schumm 1993). The psammitic channel facies within the fining-upward facies sequences, and at the top of the coarsening-upward units, is likely to represent fluvially influenced sediment input to the inferred shallow marine depositional setting along a braiddelta, where fluvial channels prograded out from a palaeo-shoreline (McPherson et al 1987;Miall 1990;Plint and Walker 1992).…”

Section: Lf2mentioning

confidence: 99%

Fluvial braidplain to shallow marine transition in the early Neoproterozoic Morar Group, Fannich Mountains, northern Scotland

Bonsor

Strachan

Prave

et al. 2010

Precambrian Research

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The early Neoproterozoic Morar Group in northern Scotland forms the lower part of the Moine Supergroup, deformed and metamorphosed within the Precambrian Knoydartian and Lower Palaeozoic orogenies. It has remained uncertain whether it was deposited in a shallowmarine 'failed rift' basin within Rodinia or a foreland basin on the margin of the Grenville Orogen, which is important to determine for tectonic reconstructions. In that context, we assess the sedimentology, depositional environment and tectonic setting of the middle part of

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“…3b). The fluvial carbonaceous-bearing environments in Jordan have much in common with the stratigraphy and architecture of the Late Permian Betts Creek Beds, Queensland, Australia (Allen and Fielding, 2007).…”

Section: The Depositional Environment Of the Carbonaceous Rocks Of Thmentioning

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Deposition and alteration of carbonaceous series within a Neotethyan rift at the western boundary of the Arabian Plate: The Late Permian Um Irna Formation, NW Jordan, a petroleum system

Dill¹,

Bechtel²,

J³

et al. 2010

International Journal of Coal Geology

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Sedimentology and stratigraphic architecture of the Late Permian Betts Creek Beds, Queensland, Australia

Cited by 50 publications

References 72 publications

The Lopingian of Australasia: a review of biostratigraphy, correlations, palaeogeography and palaeobiogeography

The Lopingian of Australasia: a review of biostratigraphy, correlations, palaeogeography and palaeobiogeography

Fluvial braidplain to shallow marine transition in the early Neoproterozoic Morar Group, Fannich Mountains, northern Scotland

Deposition and alteration of carbonaceous series within a Neotethyan rift at the western boundary of the Arabian Plate: The Late Permian Um Irna Formation, NW Jordan, a petroleum system

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