Benthic Foraminiferal Biofacies in Temperate Carbonate Sediment in the Western Pontine Archipelago (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy)

Frezza, Virgilio; Pignatti, Johannes; Matteucci, Ruggero

doi:10.2113/gsjfr.40.4.313

Cited by 16 publications

(18 citation statements)

References 18 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…marginata, B. spathulata and N. turgida confirm the high availability of nutrients linked to enhanced river input during the winter season [29,32,52,80,92,96]. Moreover, the presence of typical infralittoral taxa like B. frigida, which generally live in environments where factors like grain size, organic matter contents and salinity are highly variable [5,97], agrees with intense erosive-depositional dynamics expected in the prodelta area of the Mazzarrà Fiumara.…”

Section: Response Of Living Foraminiferal Assemblages To Sedimentary Disturbancesupporting

confidence: 71%

Benthic Foraminiferal Response to Sedimentary Processes in a Prodeltaic Environment: The Gulf of Patti Case Study (Southeastern Tyrrhenian Sea)

et al. 2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Analyses of benthic foraminiferal assemblages were carried out on sediment samples collected in the Gulf of Patti (NE Sicily, Tyrrhenian Sea), where high sedimentation rates in front of the Mazzarrà River led to the growth of a prodelta. The frequency of riverine sedimentary fluxes is testified by the widespread occurrence of erosional and depositional bedforms indicative of high-energy processes on the prodelta slope.The frequency of riverine sedimentary fluxes suggests the widespread occurrence of erosional and depositional bedforms indicative of high-energy processes on the prodelta slope. The study aimed to assess the spatial distribution of benthic foraminiferal assemblages and sediment grain size along different sectors of this prodelta to define any relationship between the foraminiferal assemblages, the environmental gradients and the sedimentary processes. In particular, we focused on the role of the highly energetic impulsive torrential inputs that dominate the depositional environment and likely affect food supply and its control on the foraminiferal density and biodiversity. The dominance of opportunistic agglutinated taxa associated with hyaline eutrophic species is a distinctive character likely related to organic matter enrichment and physical disturbance associated with inputs from torrential rivers.

show abstract

Section: Response Of Living Foraminiferal Assemblages To Sedimentary Disturbancesupporting

confidence: 71%

Benthic Foraminiferal Response to Sedimentary Processes in a Prodeltaic Environment: The Gulf of Patti Case Study (Southeastern Tyrrhenian Sea)

et al. 2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…This paper benefited from thorough and helpful reviews by Agata Di Stefano, Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen, Taylor Schildgen, and an anonymous reviewer. More detailed information on the methodology, the definition of the paleodepth, and the stratigraphic markers used to constrain the age model can be found in the supporting information (Aiello & Barra, ; Aiello et al, ; Aiello & Szczechura, ; Altenbach et al, ; Aranki et al, ; Babinot & Boukli‐Hacene, ; Barra & Bonaduce, ; Barra, ; Barra, Aiello, & Bonaduce, ; Blow, ; Bonaduce et al, , ; Bonaduce & Russo, ; Bonaduce & Spovieri, ; BouDagher‐Fadel, ; Breman, ; Brestenska & Jiricek, ; Ciampo, ; Colalongo et al, ; Colalongo et al, ; Conesa & Babinot, ; Coppa et al, ; Dall'Antonia & Bossio, ; De Rijk et al, , ; De Stigter et al, ; Di Bella, ; Di Bella et al, ; Doruk, ; Ducasse & Cahuzac, ; Eames et al, ; Faranda et al, , ; Faranda & Gliozzi, ; Fiorini & Vaiani, ; Fontanier et al, ; Frezza & Carboni, ; Frezza et al, , ; Gebhardt, ; Goineau et al, ; Gross, ; Guernet et al, ; Hayward, , ; Iaccarino et al, ; Jorissen, ; Loeblich & Tappan, ; Lourens et al, ; Malz & Jellinek, ; Mendes et al, ; Milker & Schmiedl, ; Mostafawi, , ; Mostafawi & Matzke‐Karasz, ; Murray, ; Nachite et al, ; Ola & Bamisile,…”

Section: Acknowledgmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evidence for 1.5 km of Uplift of the Central Anatolian Plateau's Southern Margin in the Last 450 kyr and Implications for Its Multiphased Uplift History

et al. 2018

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

At the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau (CAP), marine deposits that overlie the Central Tauride units at up to 2 km of elevation were used to constrain the onset of uplift to the middle‐late Miocene. This study demonstrates that much younger marine deposits cap the southern margin. We recognize the Last Common Occurrence of Neogloboquadrina spp. (sin) (0.61 Ma) and Pseudoemiliania lacunosa (0.467 Ma), which points to an early middle Pleistocene age. The benthic fauna indicates an epibathyal marine environment (400 to 500 m paleodepth), with an associated paleocoastline now at ~1,500 to 1,600 m above sea level. Our new results imply uplift rates of up to 3.21–3.42 mm/yr for the CAP southern margin since the deposition of the young marine units. In the area, the evaluation of late Pleistocene and Holocene uplift rates of ~1 mm/yr points to a post early middle Pleistocene short‐lived period of rapid uplift of the CAP southern margin, which can correlate the short‐lived surface uplift signal in numerical models of slab breakoff. Overall, this work demonstrates that the majority of the modern topography at the CAP southern margin (1,500 to 1,600 m) was only recently acquired, pointing to the absence of a significant orographic barrier along the southern plateau margin prior to 500 ka. The multiphased uplift recognized at the CAP southern margin by previous authors, as well as the fast uplift rate documented in this work, can be linked to lithosphere delamination and subsequent slab breakoff during the Arabian‐Anatolian continental collision.

show abstract

“…The benthic foraminiferal assemblage of the Terebratula samples (Fig. 6) characterizes an offshore environment (e.g., Sgarrella and Moncharmont Zei 1993; Rasmussen 2005; Milker et al 2009; Frezza et al 2010; Mojtahid et al 2010).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…refulgens , Discorbinella bertheloti , Cibicidoides gr. pachyderma , Biasterigerina planorbis , and Cibicidoides lobatulus ) suggests oligotrophic, well-oxygenated background conditions under the influence of strong bottom currents (Donnici and Barbero 2002; Schönfeld 2002; Szarek et al 2006; Fontanier et al 2008; Koho et al 2008; Schweizer et al 2009; Frezza et al 2010; Buosi et al 2012). Background oligotrophism and high oxygen levels are suggested by the proportional dominance of the “sensitive” and “indifferent” EGs of benthic foraminifera (Fig.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The environmental factors limiting the distribution of shallow-water terebratulid brachiopods

García‐Ramos¹,

Ćorić²,

Joachimski³

et al. 2020

Paleobiology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Cenozoic genus Terebratula seems to be an exception to the post-Permian trend in brachiopod retreat to offshore habitats, because it was species rich and numerically abundant in warm-temperate shallow-water environments in the Mediterranean and the Paratethys realms. This was so despite the general dominance of bivalves and the pervasive bioturbation and predation pressure during the Neogene. Terebratula, however, went extinct in the Calabrian (Pleistocene). The optimal environmental conditions for Terebratula during its prime are poorly known. The Águilas Basin (SE Spain) is an ideal study area to investigate the habitat of Terebratula, because shell beds of this brachiopod occur there cyclically in early Pliocene deposits. We evaluate the paleoecological boundary conditions controlling the distribution of Terebratula by estimating its environmental tolerances using benthic and planktic foraminiferal and nannoplanktic assemblages and oxygen isotopes of the secondary layer brachiopod calcite. Our results suggest that Terebratula in the Águilas Basin favored oligotrophic to mesotrophic, well-oxygenated environments at water depths of 60–90 m. Planktic foraminiferal assemblages and oxygen isotopes point to sea-surface temperatures between ~16°C and 22°C, and bottom-water temperatures between 17°C and 24°C. The analyzed proxies indicate that Terebratula tolerated local variations in water depth, bottom temperature, oxygenation, productivity, and organic enrichment. Terebratula was probably excluded by grazing pressure from well-lit environments and preferentially occupied sediment-starved, current-swept upper offshore habitats where coralline red algae were absent. Narrow temperature ranges of Terebratula species might have been a disadvantage during the high-amplitude seawater temperature fluctuations that started about 1 Ma, when the genus went extinct.

show abstract

Benthic Foraminiferal Biofacies in Temperate Carbonate Sediment in the Western Pontine Archipelago (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy)

Cited by 16 publications

References 18 publications

Benthic Foraminiferal Response to Sedimentary Processes in a Prodeltaic Environment: The Gulf of Patti Case Study (Southeastern Tyrrhenian Sea)

Benthic Foraminiferal Response to Sedimentary Processes in a Prodeltaic Environment: The Gulf of Patti Case Study (Southeastern Tyrrhenian Sea)

Evidence for 1.5 km of Uplift of the Central Anatolian Plateau's Southern Margin in the Last 450 kyr and Implications for Its Multiphased Uplift History

The environmental factors limiting the distribution of shallow-water terebratulid brachiopods

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About