Sequence stratigraphy and correlation of late Carboniferous and Permian in the CIS, Europe, Tethyan area, North Africa, Arabia, China, Gondwanaland and the USA

Izart, Alain; Stephenson, Randell; Vai, Gian Battista; Vachard, Daniel; Nindre, Yves Le; Vaslet, Denis; Fauvel, Pierre-Jean; Süss, Peter; Kossovaya, Olga L.; Chen, Zhong‐Qiang; Maslo, Alexander; Stovba, S.

doi:10.1016/s0031-0182(03)00313-4

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“…In order to calibrate the cyclicity of the Donets Basin, we draw upon the work of Izart et al [1996, 2002, 2003, 2006] who interpreted the Serpukhovian through Gzhelian successions of the Donets Basin in terms of sequence stratigraphy, and proposed a hierarchy of high‐frequency, fourth‐, third‐ and second‐order sequences. Figures 5–7reproduce aspects of their compiled lithostratigraphic logs and interpreted transgressive‐regressive cycles of the Donets Basin, annotated with the stratigraphic position and age of our dated tonsteins projected onto a linear time axis.…”

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“…Moreover, deposition in this paralic setting appears to have kept pace with rapid basin subsidence, such that Donets Basin strata were eustatically responsive and exceptionally cyclic [ Zhemchuzhnikov and Yablokov , 1956]. The basin has been recently reinterpreted in terms of modern sequence stratigraphy [ Briand et al , 1998; Izart et al , 1996; Izart et al , 2003], leading to a proposed hierarchy of fourth‐order and higher‐frequency cycles.…”

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High‐precision U‐Pb zircon age calibration of the global Carboniferous time scale and Milankovitch band cyclicity in the Donets Basin, eastern Ukraine

Davydov

Crowley

Schmitz

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Geochem Geophys Geosyst

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[1] High-precision ID-TIMS U-Pb zircon ages for 12 interstratified tuffs and tonsteins are used to radiometrically calibrate the detailed lithostratigraphic, cyclostratigraphic, and biostratigraphic framework of the Carboniferous Donets Basin of eastern Europe. Chemical abrasion of zircons, use of the internationally calibrated EARTHTIME mixed U-Pb isotope dilution tracer, and improved mass spectrometry guided by detailed error analysis have resulted in an age resolution of <0.05%, or $100 ka, for these Carboniferous volcanics. This precision allows the resolution of time in the Milankovitch band and confirms the long-standing hypothesis that individual high-frequency Pennsylvanian cyclothems and bundles of cyclothems into fourth-order sequences are the eustatic response to orbital eccentricity ($100 and 400 ka) forcing. Tuning of the fourth-order sequences in the Donets Basin to the long-period eccentricity cycle results in a continuous age model for the Middle to Late Pennsylvanian (MoscovianKasimovian-Ghzelian) strata of the basin and their record of biological and climatic changes through the latter portion of the late Paleozoic Ice Age. Detailed fusulinid and conodont zonations allow the export of this age model to sections throughout Euramerica. Additional ages for Mississippian strata provide among the first robust radiometric calibration points within this subperiod and result in variable lowering of the base ages of its constituent stages compared to recent global time scale compilations.

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High‐precision U‐Pb zircon age calibration of the global Carboniferous time scale and Milankovitch band cyclicity in the Donets Basin, eastern Ukraine

Davydov

Crowley

Schmitz

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Geochem Geophys Geosyst

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“…2. A sequence stratigraphic frame for the Permo-Carboniferous rocks was provided by Izart et al (1996Izart et al ( , 1998Izart et al ( , 2003. The coal-bearing sequence is composed of fluvial sandstone, coal, marine claystone or limestone, and deltaic claystone and siltstone.…”

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Stratigraphic distribution of macerals and biomarkers in the Donets Basin: Implications for paleoecology, paleoclimatology and eustacy

Izart

Sachsenhofer

Privalov

et al. 2006

International Journal of Coal Geology

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“…A sedimentation centre was still situated in the southwestern margin areas of the Tarim Basin (Chen and Shi, ). A transgressive event is clearly recorded in the succession of the early–middle Pennsylvanian Karawuyi and Azigan formations in the southwestern margin areas of the basin (Chen and Shi, ; Izart et al ., ). The former formation records a variety of facies types from deltaic, nearshore, to restricted platform facies up the section, while the latter unit is dominated by platform facies carbonates, indicating an upward‐deepening sedimentary cycle (Zhao et al ., ; Chen and Shi, , ).…”

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“…In contrast, massive restricted lagoonal facies gypsum beds were deposited in most areas of the central Tarim Basin during the early Pennsylvanian. Subsequently, the inherited lagoonal facies seems to have remained until the late Moscovian, when a large‐scale, transgression from the south‐west immersed most of the previously restricted areas (Chen and Shi, , ; Izart et al ., ). In response to the rapid sea‐level rise, the bioclastic limestone marked by the Fusulina beds occupied most areas of the central Tarim Basin, indicating the formation of a carbonate platform in the basin.…”

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A Late Carboniferous algal mound from the Tarim Basin, NW China: internal structure and palaeoecology

Chen

2012

Geological Journal

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A Beresella‐dominated algal mound and its internal construction from Paojianggou, southwestern Tarim Basin, NW China are studied for the first time. This algal mound was constructed during the early–middle late Moscovian and its age is constrained by fusulinids of the Fusulina kamensis and F. quasicylindrica zones of middle Pennsylvanian age. The mound substrate beds are composed of crinoid and brachiopod grainstones. Crinoid bank and brachiopod‐dominated skeletal shoals indicate a high‐energy environment and produced a local topographic high on which the mound grew. Komia bafflestone of the foremound facies further increased the relief of the crinoid bank on the seafloor. The lower part of the mound framework is dominated by Shamovella–Archaeolithoporella boundstone, while the main (upper) mound framework consists predominantly of Beresella boundstone. Grainstone–packstone characterizes the windward mound flank facies. The mound capping facies include a lower skeletal packstone–wackestone and an upper lagoon facies marlstone and black shale. Various algal colonies performed different roles in the formation of the mound. Komia colonies were the mound constructors that baffled higher energy currents and entrapped fine sediment. Archaeolithoporella, Shamovella and possibly microbes (cyanobacteria) acted as the binders to stabilize mud and fine‐grained sediment. Beresella colonies were the major framework constructors whose network entrapped the mud to build the mound. The growth of the Paojianggou mound in the Tarim Basin has undergone three major algal colonization stages: Komia baffling, laminar Archaeolithoporella and Shamovella encrusting and binding, and Beresella binding and stabilizing. The Paojianggou mound developed in a protected lagoonal position behind the shoals and grew during a short rise in sea level followed by a long‐period sea‐level fall. Its demise was caused by terrigenous siliciclastic input due to regional tectonic uplifting in the Tarim Basin during the latest Moscovian time. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Sequence stratigraphy and correlation of late Carboniferous and Permian in the CIS, Europe, Tethyan area, North Africa, Arabia, China, Gondwanaland and the USA

Cited by 60 publications

References 28 publications

High‐precision U‐Pb zircon age calibration of the global Carboniferous time scale and Milankovitch band cyclicity in the Donets Basin, eastern Ukraine

High‐precision U‐Pb zircon age calibration of the global Carboniferous time scale and Milankovitch band cyclicity in the Donets Basin, eastern Ukraine

Stratigraphic distribution of macerals and biomarkers in the Donets Basin: Implications for paleoecology, paleoclimatology and eustacy

A Late Carboniferous algal mound from the Tarim Basin, NW China: internal structure and palaeoecology

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