Dasycladaleans and depositional environments of the Upper Triassic-Liassic carbonate platform of the Gran Sasso (Central Apennines, Italy)

Barattolo, Filippo; Bigozzi, Anna

doi:10.1007/bf02536962

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“…The depositional textures, the fauna and Xora and the lack in general of features indicative of emergent conditions support the interpretation of this association as deposited in warm, euphotic, shallow water under low to moderate energy conditions, in a normal marine, inner carbonate platform setting. A protected lagoonal depositional environment is indicated by the cooccurrence of the P. mediterraneus and T. parvovesiculifera (Barattolo and Bigozzi 1996). Aggregate grains are interpreted as having been deposited in a shallow subtidal environment with restricted circulation (Flügel 1982;Enos 1983).…”

Section: Lagoonal-shallow Subtidal Facies Associationmentioning

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Microfacies and cycle stacking pattern in Liassic peritidal carbonate platform strata, Gavrovo-Tripolitza platform, Peloponnesus, Greece

Pomoni-Papaioannou

Kostopoulou

2008

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Platform carbonate sediments of Liassic age cropping out in the area of the Pigadi-Fokianos Gulf (SE of Leonidion, Peloponnesus) have been investigated in order to determine their depositional environment. Facies analysis allowed the recognition of several microfacies types and their cyclic stacking pattern. The carbonates were deposited in a restricted inner platform environment (lagoon-peritidal domain) and are arranged into small-scale shallowingupward cycles. Palaeosol horizons containing typical pedogenic features are developed on the top of the peritidal facies or are directly superimposed on subtidal deposits, forming diagenetic caps. This implies repeated sea-level Xuctuations and periodic emersion episodes. The presence of orbitally forced cyclicity though is mostly probable, cannot be clearly documented by the available data. The studied carbonates are comparable with other coeval analogous peritidal cycles of the same age along the southern margin of the Tethys.

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Microfacies and cycle stacking pattern in Liassic peritidal carbonate platform strata, Gavrovo-Tripolitza platform, Peloponnesus, Greece

Pomoni-Papaioannou

Kostopoulou

2008

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“…This facies association was deposited in a shallow subtidal environment under moderate to high energy conditions characterizing lagoonal channels or shoals (Colacicchi et al 1975;Barattolo & Bigozzi 1996;Pomoni-Papaioannou & Kostopoulou 2008) as demonstrated by the textural charac- Fig. 3.…”

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“…According to Bosence et al (2009), these cycles can be generated only by allocyclic controls. The common character of these cycles is the scarcity of intertidal facies, dominance of subtidal facies Bosence et al 2009), although the formation displays a remarkable thickness of up to 700 m (Pialli 1971;Colacicchi et al 1975;Bigozzi 1990;Barattolo & Bigozzi 1996;Passeri & Venturi 2005;Bosence et al 2009). In this work, we present a high-resolution analysis of a very well exposed road cutting (26 m exposed thickness) located in the structural high of the Cornicolani Mountains at the end of the upper portion of the Calcare Massiccio Formation, around 40 m before the drowning succession.…”

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On the peritidal cycles and their diagenetic evolution in the Lower Jurassic carbonates of the Calcare Massiccio Formation (Central Apennines)

Brandano¹,

Corda²,

Tomassetti³

et al. 2015

Geologica Carpathica

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This paper shows the environmental changes and high-frequency cyclicity recorded by Lower Jurassic shallow-water carbonates known as the Calcare Massiccio Formation which crop out in the central Apennines of Italy. Three types of sedimentary cycle bounded by subaerial erosion have been recognized: Type I consists of a shallowing upward cycle with oncoidal floatstones to rudstones passing gradationally up into peloidal packstone alternating with cryptoalgal laminites and often bounded by desiccation cracks and pisolitic-peloidal wackestones indicating a period of subaerial exposure. Type II shows a symmetrical trend in terms of facies arrangement with peloidal packstones and cryptoalgal laminites present both at the base and in the upper portion of the cycle, separated by oncoidal floatstones to rudstones. Type III displays a shallowing upward trend with an initial erosion surface overlain by oncoidal floatstones to rudstones that, in turn, are capped by pisolitic-peloidal wackestones and desiccation sheet cracks. Sheet cracks at the top of cycles formed during the initial phase of subaerial exposure were successively enlarged by dissolution during prolonged subaerial exposure. The following sea-level fall produced dissolution cavities in subtidal facies, while the successive sea-level rise resulted in the precipitation of marine cements in dissolution cavities. Spectral analysis revealed six peaks, five of which are consistent with orbital cycles. While a tectonic control cannot be disregarded, the main signal recorded by the sedimentary succession points toward a main control related to orbital forcing. High frequency sea-level fluctuations also controlled diagenetic processes.

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“…Benthic forms in comparable facies have also been illustrated and described from the Early Jurassic of north Italy (Sartoni and Crescenti, 1962;Bosellini and Broglio Loriga, 1971;Castellarin, 1972), and south and central Italy (e.g. Chiocchini et al, 1994;Barattolo and Bigozzi, 1996). Jurassic larger benthic foraminifera have also been studied from Saudi Arabia (e.g.…”

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Evolution and Geological Significance of Larger Benthic Foraminifera

2018

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Dasycladaleans and depositional environments of the Upper Triassic-Liassic carbonate platform of the Gran Sasso (Central Apennines, Italy)

Cited by 29 publications

References 7 publications

Microfacies and cycle stacking pattern in Liassic peritidal carbonate platform strata, Gavrovo-Tripolitza platform, Peloponnesus, Greece

Microfacies and cycle stacking pattern in Liassic peritidal carbonate platform strata, Gavrovo-Tripolitza platform, Peloponnesus, Greece

On the peritidal cycles and their diagenetic evolution in the Lower Jurassic carbonates of the Calcare Massiccio Formation (Central Apennines)

Evolution and Geological Significance of Larger Benthic Foraminifera

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