Middle Miocene eustatic sea-level fluctuations: evidence from coastal to shallow marine siliciclastic sequences of northern Taiwan

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neng-Ti Yu
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Shallow Marine ◽  
Sea Level Fluctuations ◽  
Northern Taiwan

scholarly journals Lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian) carbonates of the southern Askrigg Block, North Yorkshire, UK

2016 ◽  
Vol 154 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. N. WATERS ◽  
P. CÓZAR ◽  
I. D. SOMERVILLE ◽  
R. B. HASLAM ◽  
D. MILLWARD ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Carbonate Ramp ◽  
Fault System ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
Shallow Marine ◽  
Sea Level Fluctuations ◽  
Algal Assemblages ◽  
Lower Palaeozoic ◽  
Southern Flank

AbstractA rationalized lithostratigraphy for the Great Scar Limestone Group of the southeast Askrigg Block is established. The basal Chapel House Limestone Formation, assessed from boreholes, comprises shallow-marine to supratidal carbonates that thin rapidly northwards across the Craven Fault System, onlapping a palaeotopographical high of Lower Palaeozoic strata. The formation is of late Arundian age in the Silverdale Borehole, its northernmost development. The overlying Kilnsey Formation represents a southward-thickening and upward-shoaling carbonate development on a S-facing carbonate ramp. Foraminiferal/algal assemblages suggest a late Holkerian and early Asbian age, respectively, for the uppermost parts of the lower Scaleber Force Limestone and upper Scaleber Quarry Limestone members, significantly younger than previously interpreted. The succeeding Malham Formation comprises the lower Cove Limestone and upper Gordale Limestone members. Foraminiferal/algal assemblages indicate a late Asbian age for the formation, contrasting with the Holkerian age previously attributed to the Cove Limestone. The members reflect a change from a partially shallow-water lagoon (Cove Limestone) to more open-marine shelf (Gordale Limestone), coincident with the onset of marked sea-level fluctuations and formation of palaeokarstic surfaces with palaeosoils in the latter. Facies variations along the southern flank of the Askrigg Block, including an absence of fenestral lime-mudstone in the upper part of the Cove Limestone and presence of dark grey cherty grainstone/packstone in the upper part the Gordale Limestone are related to enhanced subsidence during late Asbian movement on the Craven Fault System. This accounts for the marked thickening of both members towards the Greenhow Inlier.

Constraints on the amplitude of Mid-Pliocene (3.6–2.4 Ma) eustatic sea-level fluctuations from the New Zealand shallow-marine sediment record

2008 ◽  
Vol 367 (1886) ◽  
pp. 169-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim R Naish ◽  
Gary S Wilson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Sediment Accumulation ◽  
Ice Sheet ◽  
Deep Ocean ◽  
Antarctic Ice Sheet ◽  
Shallow Marine ◽  
Sea Level Fluctuations ◽  
Late Neogene ◽  
Sea Level Oscillations

Ice-volume calibrations of the deep-ocean foraminiferal δ 18 O record imply orbitally influenced sea-level fluctuations of up to 30 m amplitude during the Mid-Pliocene, and up to 30 per cent loss of the present-day mass of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) assuming complete deglaciation of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) and Greenland. These sea-level oscillations have driven recurrent transgressions and regressions across the world's continental shelves. Wanganui Basin, New Zealand, contains the most complete shallow-marine Late Neogene stratigraphic record in the form of a continuous cyclostratigraphy representing every 41 and 100 ka sea-level cycle since ca 3.6 Ma. This paper presents a synthesis of faunally derived palaeobathymetric data for shallow-marine sedimentary cycles corresponding to marine isotope stages M2–100 ( ca 3.4–2.4 Ma). Our approach estimates the eustatic sea-level contribution to the palaeobathymetry curve by placing constraints on total subsidence and decompacted sediment accumulation. The sea-level estimates are consistent with those from δ 18 O curves and numerical ice sheet models, and imply a significant sensitivity of the WAIS and the coastal margins of the EAIS to orbital oscillations in insolation during the Mid-Pliocene period of relative global warmth. Sea-level oscillations of 10–30 m were paced by obliquity.

Insolation-paced sea level during the Early Pleistocene, Taiwan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romain Vaucher ◽  
Shahin E. Dashtgard ◽  
Chorng-Shern Horng ◽  
Christian Zeeden ◽  
Antoine Dillinger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Benthic Foraminifera ◽  
Sediment Accumulation ◽  
Sediment Flux ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Glacial Cycles ◽  
Shallow Marine ◽  
Sea Level Fluctuations ◽  
Summer Insolation ◽  
O Isotope

<p>The Pleistocene was a phase of global cooling of the Earth through which glacial-interglacial cycles occurred, and the growth and decay of the ice-sheets resulted in quasi-cyclic sea-level fluctuations driven by orbital forcing. Despite that summer insolation is mostly controlled by precession, the records of the glacial cycles showcase a significant periodicity of ~41 kyrs during the Early Pleistocene forced by Earth’s obliquity (tilt) that varies the latitudinal distribution of insolation especially in high latitudes. The dominance of obliquity over precession in marine archives is commonly attributed to the in-phase effect of obliquity-related insolation versus the opposite-phased influence of precession, which may cancel out the summer insolation signal received by the southern and northern hemispheres.</p><p>Here, we present a clastic shallow marine record from the Cholan Formation (Early Pleistocene; Taiwan). Facies analysis indicates that quasi-cyclic deposition occurred in shoreface to offshore environments in the paleo-Taiwan Strait. The magnetobiostratigraphic framework indicates that the studied section occurs in the lower part of the Matuyama subchron (1.925 - 2.595 Ma) close to the lower limit of the Olduvai (1.925 Ma) normal polarity subchron. Comparison of the stratigraphy to a d<sup>18</sup>O isotope record of benthic foraminifera and orbital curves of precession and obliquity at the time of sediment accumulation reveals a good correlation between depositional cycles and the Northern Hemisphere summer insolation, demonstrating precession dominated sea-level fluctuations during the Early Pleistocene. These results underpin recent findings suggesting that d<sup>18</sup>O isotope records of benthic foraminifera have a more significant precession signal than previously described. This study also demonstrates that shallow-marine stratigraphic successions in high-accommodation and high-sedimentation basins can be outstanding climate archives, possibly even preserving sediment flux responding to half-precession cycles.</p>

Astronomical tuning of the Eastern Georgia Konkian (Kura basin)

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Yu. V. Rostovtseva ◽  
K. P. Koiava ◽  
A. I. Rybkina
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Sedimentation Rate ◽  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Marine Fauna ◽  
Shallow Marine ◽  
Precession Cycle ◽  
Astronomical Tuning ◽  
Shallow Marine Sediments ◽  
Depositional Setting

The shallow-marine sediments of the Middle Miocene (mainly the Konkian) of the Eastern Georgia (Eastern Paratethys, Kura basin) were investigated by cyclostratigraphy methods. Time series analysis (Lomb-Scargle and REDFIT periodograms, Gaussian filters) revealed statistically significant signal with 2,4–2,7 m wavelength corresponding most likely to the precession cycle. Based on statistical processes, a sedimentation rate of the studied sediments from 8,75 to 13,75 cm/kyr for different depositional setting was detected. We suggest that the studied Eastern Georgia Konkian sediments (Sartaganian and Veselyankian beds) accumulated during of at least 475–600 kyr. The Sartaganian (beds with most diverse marine fauna of the Konkian) can be correlated with interval of highest sea-level rise of TB 2,5 cycle.

STRATIGRAPHY AND FORMATION CONDITIONS OF CALLOVIAN AND UPPER JURASSIC DEPOSITS OF THE CENTRAL PART OF THE KAZYM-KONDA REGION (WEST SIBERIA)

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-16
Author(s):  
V. A. Marinov ◽  
◽  
A. S. Alifirov ◽  
V. A. Bumagina ◽  
A. E. Igolnikov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
West Siberia ◽  
Upper Jurassic ◽  
Shallow Marine ◽  
Sea Level Fluctuations ◽  
Formation Conditions ◽  
And Sea Level

The results of stratigraphic and facies studies of the Callovian and Upper Jurassic of the Kazym-Konda facies region (West Siberia) are presented. The sequence of subdivisions of the boreal zonal standard is established. The section is composed of rocks with predominantly shallow marine genesis; their composition depended on sedimentation cyclicity and sea level fluctuations. The highest incoming rates of sedimentary material were associated with transgressive episodes in the Callovian, Middle Oxfordian and Middle Volgian. Stratigraphic breaks and periods of deficient sedimentation in the Late Oxfordian, Kimmeridgian, Early Volgian and Late Volgian correspond to regressive episodes in the section.

RESPONSE OF SHALLOW MARINE BIOTAS TO SEA-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS: A REVIEW OF FAUNAL REPLACEMENT AND THE PROCESS OF HABITAT TRACKING

Palaios ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. E. BRETT ◽  
A. J.W. HENDY ◽  
A. J. BARTHOLOMEW ◽  
J. R. BONELLI ◽  
P. I. MCLAUGHLIN
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Shallow Marine ◽  
Sea Level Fluctuations ◽  
Habitat Tracking
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