Mixed siliciclastic–carbonate systems and their impact for the development of deep-water turbidites in continental margins: A case study from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous Shelburne subbasin in offshore Nova Scotia

AAPG Bulletin ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 103 (10) ◽  
pp. 2487-2520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorena Moscardelli ◽  
Jesús Ochoa ◽  
Ian Hunt ◽  
Laura Zahm
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Late Jurassic ◽  
Continental Margins

scholarly journals Origin and Age Determination of the Neotethys Meliata Basin Ophiolite Fragments in the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Accretionary Wedge Mélange (Inner Western Carpathians, Slovakia)

Minerals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Putiš ◽  
Soták ◽  
Li ◽  
Ondrejka ◽  
Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Continental Margin ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Late Jurassic ◽  
Age Determination ◽  
Evolutionary Model ◽  
Western Carpathians ◽  
Alkaline Basalt ◽  
Accretionary Wedge ◽  
Depleted Mantle

This study reports the Neotethyan Meliata Basin ophiolite fragments in the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous accretionary wedge mélange in the southern part of the Inner Western Carpathians (IWC). Here we present new lithostratigraphical, petrographical, geochemical, and geochronological data obtained from the mélange blocks used to reconstruct the Meliaticum paleotectonic zones in a tentative evolutionary model of this accretionary wedge. The Dobšiná mélange block continental margin carbonatic and siliciclastic sediments have calc-alkaline basalt intercalations. The basalt Concordia age dated to 245.5 ± 3.3 Ma by U–Pb SIMS on zircon most likely indicates the pre-oceanic advanced early Middle Triassic continental rifting stage. The evolving marginal oceanic crust is composed of Middle to Upper Triassic cherty shales to radiolarites. The detrital zircon U–Pb SIMS Concordia ages of 247 ± 4 Ma and 243 ± 4 Ma from a cherty shale, and the xenocryst zircon population Concordia age of 266 ± 3 Ma from a 0.5 m thick “normal” mid-ocean ridge (N-MOR) basalt layer in this cherty shale reveal the connection of the oceanic basin to the adjacent rifting continental margin. The chertified reddish limestone transition to radiolarite indicates syn-rift basin deepening. Upwards, regular alternating N-MOR basalts and radiolarites are often disturbed by peperite breccia horizons. The Nd isotope values of these basalts (εNd240 = 7–8) are consistent with their chondrite normalized rare earth element (REE) patterns and indicate a depleted mantle source. The Triassic ophiolitic suite also comprises rare ocean island (OI) basalts (εNd240 = 5) and serpentinized subduction unrelated peridotites. The Middle to Late Jurassic shortening and southward intra-oceanic and continental margin subduction at approximately 170–150 Ma enhanced the formation of the trench-like Jurassic flysch succession which preceded the closure of the Meliata Basin. The flysch sediments form a mélange matrix of olistolithic unsubducted, obducted, and MP–HP/LT metamorphosed exhumed blocks of the Triassic to Lower Jurassic successions. Blocks of peridotites, rodingites, blueschists, greenschists, rare amphibolites, deep-water shaly sediments and shallow- to deep-water carbonates are typical members of the mélange. The Meliatic accretionary wedge mélange nappe outliers were incorporated in the IWC orogenic wedge in the late Early Cretaceous according to metamorphic rutile U–Pb SIMS ages of 100 ± 10 Ma determined from a Jaklovce metabasalt.

Geochemistry and geochronology of Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous intrusions related to some Au (Sb) deposits in southern Anhui: a case study and review

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Hu ◽  
Huangling Gu ◽  
Xiaoyong Yang ◽  
Yisu Ren ◽  
Ergen Gao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Late Jurassic

AGE MODEL FOR LATE JURASSIC THROUGH EARLY CRETACEOUS USED IN THE GEOLOGIC TIMESCALE 2012/2016 REFERENCE SCALES

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James G. Ogg ◽  
◽  
Chunju Huang ◽  
Chunju Huang ◽  
Linda A. Hinnov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Late Jurassic ◽  
Age Model

Theropod teeth from the basalmost Cretaceous of Anoual (Morocco) and their palaeobiogeographical significance

2009 ◽  
Vol 146 (4) ◽  
pp. 602-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. KNOLL ◽  
J. I. RUIZ-OMEÑACA
Keyword(s):  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Late Jurassic ◽  
Dispersal Events ◽  
Early Occurrence

AbstractThe theropod teeth from the Berriasian (Early Cretaceous) site of Anoual (N Morocco) are described. The assemblage is important in that it comes from one of the very few dinosaur sites of this age globally and the only one for the whole of Gondwana. The theropod teeth from Anoual are morphologically diverse. Most of the material possibly belongs to the clade Dromaeosauridae, which would be an early occurrence for this taxon. The palaeogeographic position of Anoual enables it to provide data on the dispersal events that affected terrestrial faunas during Mesozoic times. A Laurasian influence is evidenced by the presence of Velociraptorinae and, on the whole, the theropod fauna from Anoual provides support for the existence of a trans-Tethyan passage allowing terrestrial faunal interchanges during Late Jurassic and/or earliest Cretaceous times. Additionally, Anoual records the existence of diminutive theropods. However, it cannot yet be determined whether the small size of the specimens is genetic or ontogenetic.

scholarly journals Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous palynostratigraphy and palaeoclimate in the Andigama Basin, Sri Lanka

2021 ◽  
pp. 100067
Author(s):  
Panchala Weerakoon ◽  
Harinam Joshi ◽  
Neha Aggarwal ◽  
Neerja Jha ◽  
Hetti Arachchige Hemachandra Jayasena ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Late Jurassic
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