Carbonate turbidites in a Mesozoic pelagic basin: Scaglia formation, apennines—comparison with siliciclastic depositional models

Colacicchi, Roberto; Baldanza, Angela

doi:10.1016/0037-0738(86)90081-3

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“…Similar deposits have been reported along bank/reef carbonate margin scarps as well as from inner apron settings (Facies F of Mullins and Cook, 1986;Colacicchi and Baldanza, 1986). Occurrences of such facies are more restricted in outer apron settings.…”

Section: Depositional Environment Of Fa1supporting

confidence: 49%

“…The described beds (B1 to B14) attest sheet-like morphologies with no evidence of channelized or erosive features. Line-source apron-like models devoid of channel-feeder have been invoked to explain this characteristic of carbonate slopes (Mullins and Cook, 1986;Colacicchi and Baldanza, 1986;Eberli, 1991 among others), suggesting a similar distribution of sediments along the base-of-slope margin. However, our study testifies of a different nature of deposits in the Tragjas, Piluri, Saranda and Ksamil area (Figs.…”

Section: Santonian-latest Campanianmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Italy, Spalluto et al (2007) reported three different earthquakes that affected Apulian platform deposits during Early Maastrichtian times. Colacicchi and Baldanza (1986) mentioned that slump intervals compose at least 50% of the sequence in the Upper part of the Cretaceous in the Scaglia Formation. Although the triggering nature of these slumps remains uncertain, the stacking of several deformed intervals in the Uppermost Campanian to Maastrichtian succession unequivocally testifies of major instabilities of the Apulian margin during this period.…”

Section: Latest Campanian-maastrichtianmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Contribution to the understanding of the Ionian Basin sedimentary evolution along the eastern edge of Apulia during the Late Cretaceous in Albania

Goff

Cérepi

Swennen

et al. 2015

Sedimentary Geology

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Integrated in the peri-Adriatic domain, the Ionian Basin extended along a NW-SE direction during the Late Cretaceous, limited on its sides by the Apulian and the Kruja platforms. The basinal/slope succession was studied in seven outcrops exposed in the Albanian fold-and-thrust belt. Sedimentological investigations, supported by bio-and chronostratigraphy were performed on calcareous Upper Cretaceous hemipelagites, gravity-flow deposits and slumps. The western part of the basin was studied, revealing a strong influence of the Apulian margin, alternatively shedding sediment basinward, by means of a tectonically controlled edge. The Late Albian to Cenomanian period is characterized by the settling of muddy debrites along the margin. A deep basinal environment characterizes this period which prolongs until the Santonian, with no significant influx of the platform basinward. This sedimentary setting abruptly changed at the end of the Santonian, with an important influx derived from both platforms. Coarsening and thickening upward sequences show a progressive increase in sediment shedding during the Campanian. The Late Campanian-Early Maastrichtian period points out a major change on the resedimentation processes with the settling of several slumped units reworking thick sediment packages. The latter can be traced along the Apulian margin, testifying of instabilities along the edge of Apulia.

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Section: Depositional Environment Of Fa1supporting

confidence: 49%

Section: Santonian-latest Campanianmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Latest Campanian-maastrichtianmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Contribution to the understanding of the Ionian Basin sedimentary evolution along the eastern edge of Apulia during the Late Cretaceous in Albania

Goff

Cérepi

Swennen

et al. 2015

Sedimentary Geology

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“…Calciturbiditic successions deposited by non-channelized and mainly low-density currents have been widely reported from the lower slope, base-of-slope and basin-plain environments related to shelf-edge carbonate platforms and ramps (e.g. Colacicchi & Baldanza, 1986;Mullins & Cook, 1986;Eberli, 1987;Hazlett & Warme, 1988;Tucker, 1990;Braga et al, 2001;Drzewiecki & Simó, 2002;Savary & Ferry, 2004). The origin of chert concretions was discussed by Bustillo & Ruiz-Ortiz (1987).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Late Cretaceous to Early Eocene Sedimentation in the Sinop–Boyabat Basin, North‐Central Turkey: A Deep‐Water Turbiditic System Evolving into Littoral Carbonate Platform

Leren

Janbu

Nemec

et al. 2007

Sedimentary Processes, Environments and Basins

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The Sinop-Boyabat Basin is a southeast-trending elongate basin in the Central Pontides, northern Anatolia, filled with a succession of Lower Cretaceous to middle Eocene deposits, nearly 7 km thick. The basin evolved from a backarc rift related to the Western Black Sea crustal extension into a retroarc foreland basin of the Central Pontides, and was eventually inverted by tectonic compression in the late Eocene. The present sedimentological study, supplemented with petrographical, micropalaeontological and ichnological data, is focused on the Upper Cretaceous to lowest Eocene part of the basin-fill succession, which is ~2 km thick, comprises the Gürsökü, Akveren and Atba1ı formations and corresponds to the basin's transformation from a failed rift into an orogenic foreland. The succession's facies associations reveal a deep-marine turbiditic system that underwent prolonged aggradation and evolved into a wave-dominated littoral carbonate platform, to be drowned again due to a eustatic sea-level rise and rapid tectonic subsidence in late Paleocene time.The upper Campanian to lower Maastrichtian Gürsökü Formation consists of alternating siliciclastic sandstones, calcareous mudstones and subordinate marlstones. The deposits represent a basin-floor turbiditic system directed towards the east, supplied with epiclastic volcanic detritus and increasingly more abundant bioclastic sediment from the basin's southwestern margin. The bioclastic admixture indicates development of a reefal platform at the basin margin. The northeastern margin was submerged and insignificant as a sediment source. The sheet-like turbidites indicate non-channelized currents of low to high density, and the succession represents transition from the medial to distal part of the system. At least one isolated palaeochannel occurs in the lowermost, thicker bedded part of the succession. The system was supplied with sediment from a storm-dominated littoral ramp perched on the basin margin and was subject to gradual retreat (back-stepping) by onlapping the margin.The upper Maastrichtian-Paleocene Akveren Formation consists of sheet-like calcarenitic turbidites interbedded with marlstones and calcareous mudstones. Its uppermost part is dominated by tempestites, with wave-worked shoreface calcarenites and a reefal limestone unit at the top. Eastward sediment dispersal persisted, and the basin-floor turbiditic system was supplied with sediment from a distally steepened ramp with bypass chutes. As the turbiditic system aggraded, the ramp became homoclinal and the ignition of turbidity currents declined, giving way to

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“…This apron system is characterised by multiple sources along a margin rather than a single point source. This difference between point and linear source deposits have been described by Mullins and Cook (1986) and Colacicchi and Baldanza (1986).…”

Section: Deposition Modelmentioning

confidence: 96%

Stratigraphy, sedimentology and structure of the Numidian Flysch thrust belt in northern Tunisia

Riahi

Soussi

Boukhalfa

et al. 2010

Journal of African Earth Sciences

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The Cutri Formation's type location exposed in the NW of Mallorca, Spain, has previously been described and further interpreted as a base-of-slope carbonate apron. Incorporating new field and laboratory analysis this paper enhances this interpretation. From this analysis, it can be shown without reasonable doubt that the Cutri Formation was deposited in a carbonate base-of-slope environment on the palaeowindward side of a Mid-Jurassic Tethyan platform. Key evidence such as laterally extensive exposures, abundant deposits of calciturbidtes and debris flows amongst hemipelagic deposits strongly support this interpretation.Keywords: calcilturbidite, debrite, Bositra, Jurassic, Mallorca, base-of-slope apron Resumen La Formación Cutri, en su localidad tipo en el noroeste de Mallorca (España), ha sido previamente interpretada como un posible prisma de talud carbonático. Esta interpretación es ratificada y pormenorizada en este trabajo con la incorporación de nuevos datos de campo y de laboratorio. El análisis realizado muestra que la Formación Cutri se depositó en la base del talud, en el lado de un ambiente carbonato de base de la pendiente a barlovento de una plataforma carbonatada tetisiana del Jurásico Medio. Esta interpretación está apoyada por extensos afloramientos de gran continuidad lateral, abundantes niveles de calciturbidtas y debris-flows entre los depósitos hemipelágicos.Palabras clave: calcilturbidita, debrita, Bositra, Jurásico, Mallorca, prisma de base de talud carbonático Journal of Iberian Geology 42 (1) 2016: [95][96][97][98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105][106][107][108][109][110][111][112]

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Carbonate turbidites in a Mesozoic pelagic basin: Scaglia formation, apennines—comparison with siliciclastic depositional models

Cited by 59 publications

References 4 publications

Contribution to the understanding of the Ionian Basin sedimentary evolution along the eastern edge of Apulia during the Late Cretaceous in Albania

Contribution to the understanding of the Ionian Basin sedimentary evolution along the eastern edge of Apulia during the Late Cretaceous in Albania

Late Cretaceous to Early Eocene Sedimentation in the Sinop–Boyabat Basin, North‐Central Turkey: A Deep‐Water Turbiditic System Evolving into Littoral Carbonate Platform

Stratigraphy, sedimentology and structure of the Numidian Flysch thrust belt in northern Tunisia

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