The role of climate in stratigraphic patterns exhibited by late Palaeozoic rocks exposed in Kansas

West, Ronald R.; Archer, Allen W.; Miller, Keith

doi:10.1016/s0031-0182(97)81127-3

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“…On the northern hemisphere, comparable successions have been studied within the North American Midcontinent by Boardman and Heckel (1989), West et al (1997) and Olszewski and Patzkowsky (2003), and in the Sverdrup Basin of the Canadian Arctic by Beauchamp (1994), Morin et al (1994) and Beauchamp and Desrochers (1997). Håkansson and Stemmerik (1989), Cecchi et al (1995), , Stemmerik and Worsley (1995), Stemmerik (1997) and Samuelsberg and Pickard (1999) presented similar features in the strata of the Wandel Sea Basin from northern Greenland and the Barents Sea.…”

Section: Cycle Stacking Pattern and Cyclostratigraphymentioning

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Facies arrangement and cyclostratigraphic architecture of a shallow-marine, warm-water carbonate platform: the Late Carboniferous Ny Friesland Platform in eastern Spitsbergen (Pyefjellet Beds, Wordiekammen Formation, Gipsdalen Group)

Blomeier

Scheibner

Forke

2008

Facies

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During the Late Carboniferous, a spacious warm-water carbonate platform developed across the eastern part of the present Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. The platform initiated in the Moscovian on an uplifted fault block (Ny Friesland High) and progradated during the Late Moscovian to Early Kasimovian into the adjacent Campbellryggen Basin (central Spitsbergen). The fossiliferous platform strata are characterized by a pronounced cyclicity formed by stacked parasequences, which consist of deWned, subtidal to supratidal facies-set successions reXecting a general shallowing of the depositional area. Up to 17 of these shallowing-upward cycles, bounded by distinct discontinuity (marine Xooding) surfaces due to the recurrent emersion and subsequent Xooding of the platform surface, have been recognized within the platform strata. The stacked cycles are the result of global, glacio-eustatic, highfrequent and high-amplitudinal sea-level Xuctuations with eccentricity periodicities caused by ice volume changes during the Gondwana Land glaciation. Based on systematic changes of the cycles (thickness and internal facies composition), the upper part of the platform strata is interpreted as a progradational parasequence set of a late highstand system tract.

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Section: Cycle Stacking Pattern and Cyclostratigraphymentioning

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Facies arrangement and cyclostratigraphic architecture of a shallow-marine, warm-water carbonate platform: the Late Carboniferous Ny Friesland Platform in eastern Spitsbergen (Pyefjellet Beds, Wordiekammen Formation, Gipsdalen Group)

Blomeier

Scheibner

Forke

2008

Facies

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“…Climatic change is an important factor in upper Paleozoic cyclic sediments (West et al, 1997 and other references therein). A drowning interval caused principally by climatic fluctuations should be mirrored in differences, among others, in sediment supply and mineralogy.…”

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Drowning of algal mounds: records from the Upper Carboniferous Lower Pseudoschwagerina Limestone, Carnic Alps, Austria

Samankassou

1999

Sedimentary Geology

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Anthracoporella algal mounds, up to 22 m thick, occur within the cyclic sequences of the Lower Pseudoschwagerina Limestone (uppermost Carboniferous), Carnic Alps (Austria). Their depositional environment lay between the wave base and the base of the photic zone. The algal mounds are overlain by dark, well-bedded, cherty wackestones and packstones. The cherty limestones contain cephalopods, thick-shelled brachiopods, and sponge spicules and lack Anthracoporella in growth position. They are typical deeper-water sediments, deposited below the photic zone. This sequence records drowning episodes; the shallow-water algal mounds were drowned by relative rise of sea level as sea-bottom production shut down below the photic zone. The sedimentological and paleontological evidence of drowning are supported by geochemical data of two measured sections. The mean sulfur content of the well-oxygenated algal limestones is 0.02% for both sections; the TOC values are 0.17% for the section AI and 0.10% for the section AR. The S contents of the cherty limestones are approximately twice as high with values of 0.48 and 0.05% for the respective sections. TOC values of the cherty limestones are also significantly higher, with 0.30 and 0.51% contents for the respective sections. The cherty limestones document the termination of the mounds and the demise of reef-building algae in each cycle. This interval is therefore termed 'shroud facies'. The rapid sea-level rise reported is a further proof for high-magnitude sea-level fluctuations in intervals of glacio-eustasy. The documented drowning mode is novel through the definable interval of drowning, the repeated events during a short time interval, the full record of pre-, syn-, and post-drowning deposits, and the unequivocal attribution to glacio-eustatic sea-level rise. This mode seems to be characteristic of an icehouse period and clearly differs from the drowning mode in greenhouse periods which is often gradual, lacks an unequivocal cause, and is often preceded by subaerial exposure.

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“…A shift from humid to semi-arid climates across the paleotropics during the mid-to-late Pennsylvanian has long been noted in sedimentologic and paleobotanical records (Phillips and Peppers, 1984;West et al, 1997;Hilton and Cleal, 2007;Kabanov et al, 2010), and more recently has been documented in high-latitude Gondwanan basins (Gulbranson et al, 2010). This period of widespread aridification coincided with a progressive restructuring of paleotropical floral ecosystems involving a shift from lycopsid-to tree fern-dominance in wetland habitats throughout Euramerica (Gastaldo et al, 1996;DiMichele et al, 2001;Cleal and Thomas, 2005) including the Donets Basin (Schegolev, 1975;Sachsenhofer et al, 2003).…”

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Sequence stratigraphy and onlap history of the Donets Basin, Ukraine: Insight into Carboniferous icehouse dynamics

Eros

Montañez

Osleger

et al. 2012

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

154

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The degree to which Permo-Carboniferous cyclothemic successions archive evidence for longterm variations in ice volume during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age is insufficiently resolved. Here we develop the sequence stratigraphy and onlap-offlap history for a 33-my interval of the Carboniferous using the U-Pb calibrated succession of the Donets Basin, Ukraine, in order to assess the relationship between sea-level, high-latitude changes in glacial extent, and climate. Integrated subsurface and outcrop data permit meter-scale correlation of 242 biostratigraphically constrained limestones and coals, and in turn individual cyclothems, across ~250 km of the Donets Basin. Rapid uniform subsidence and basinwide continuity of marker beds indicate Pennsylvanian deposition under relatively stable tectonic conditions. Three scales of sequences (avg. durations of ~140 ky, ~480 ky and 1.6 my) are recognized on the basis of stratigraphic stacking patterns and basinwide architecture of marine to terrestrial facies assemblages.The hierarchy of sequences and the geographic and stratigraphic positions of shifts in base-level sensitive facies across the Donets ramp permit the construction of an onlap-offlap history at a sub-400 ky scale. Major sea-level lowstands occur across the mid-Carboniferous boundary and during the early Moscovian. These lowstands coincide with glacial maxima inferred from highlatitude glacigenic deposits. The middle to late Pennsylvanian is characterized by a stepwise onlap, culminating in an earliest Gzhelian highstand, suggesting contraction of Carboniferous ice sheets prior to the initiation of Early Permian glaciation.The stratigraphic position of climate sensitive facies within individual Donets cyclothems indicates a turnover from seasonal sub-humid or semi-arid climate to everwet conditions during the late lowstand and maximum ice sheet accumulation. Comparison of the stratigraphic and aerial distribution of coals and evaporites in the Donets Basin with the onlap-offlap history further indicates everwet conditions during lowstands and inferred glacial maxima and drier climate during onlap and inferred ice sheet contraction at the intermediate (~0.8 to 1.6 my) and long (10 6 yr) time-scales. Taken together, the relationship between inferred climate and glacioeustasy suggests a likely teleconnection between high-latitude ice sheet behavior and low-latitude atmospheric dynamics.

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The role of climate in stratigraphic patterns exhibited by late Palaeozoic rocks exposed in Kansas

Cited by 54 publications

References 30 publications

Facies arrangement and cyclostratigraphic architecture of a shallow-marine, warm-water carbonate platform: the Late Carboniferous Ny Friesland Platform in eastern Spitsbergen (Pyefjellet Beds, Wordiekammen Formation, Gipsdalen Group)

Facies arrangement and cyclostratigraphic architecture of a shallow-marine, warm-water carbonate platform: the Late Carboniferous Ny Friesland Platform in eastern Spitsbergen (Pyefjellet Beds, Wordiekammen Formation, Gipsdalen Group)

Drowning of algal mounds: records from the Upper Carboniferous Lower Pseudoschwagerina Limestone, Carnic Alps, Austria

Sequence stratigraphy and onlap history of the Donets Basin, Ukraine: Insight into Carboniferous icehouse dynamics

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