Drowning history of a Miocene carbonate platform (Zhujiang Formation, South China Sea)

Sattler, U.; Immenhauser, Adrian; Schlager, Wolfgang; Zampetti, Valentina

doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.06.001

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“…A combination of a reduction in carbonate accumulation rates, through a change from oligo-to meso-trophic conditions (e.g., Brandano et al 2016), and submergence through relative sea-level rise attributed to extensional tectonics, is interpreted to be responsible for the demise of the New Guinea Limestone platform (e.g., Hallock and Schlager 1986;Sattler et al 2009). Evidence for submergence is recorded as a gradual increase in bathymetry from environmental preferences of foraminifera, either through short-term high-amplitude oscillations in the global glacioeustatic sea-level trend or localized tectonic subsidence.…”

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“…The concept of drowning unconformities is well established and there are many examples of carbonate platform drowning strata documented in the rock record worldwide (e.g., Schlager 1981Schlager , 1989Hallock and Schlager 1986;Longman et al 1987;Simone and Carannante 1988;Erlich et al 1990Erlich et al , 1993Föllmi et al 1994;Drzewiecki and Simo 1997;Weissert et al 1998;Blomeier and Reijmer 1999;Wortmann and Weissert 2000;Wissler et al 2003;Ruiz-Ortiz et al 2004;Mutti et al 2005;Föllmi and Gainon 2008;Sattler et al 2009;Najarro et al 2011;Marino and Santantonio 2010;Brandano et al 2016;Sulli and Interbartolo 2016). Carbonate platforms are defined as flat-topped accumulations of carbonate sediments developed at or very near sea level (Hallock and Schlager 1986).…”

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Carbonate drowning successions of the Bird’s Head, Indonesia

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2017

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environment. Already foundering carbonate platforms due to environmental deterioration were left vulnerable to submergence and eventually succumbed to drowning. Low rates of carbonate production were outpaced by the rate of relative sea-level rise caused by high-amplitude oscillations in global glacio-eustatic sea-level change and/or regional tectonic subsidence. The duration of the drowning event across the entire Bird's Head region is interpreted to have lasted a duration of approximately 9.5 My, between 18.0 and 8.58 Ma. This has implications when interpreting timings of sedimentary basin fill across western New Guinea and in other basins where carbonate platform drowning is recorded.

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Carbonate drowning successions of the Bird’s Head, Indonesia

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“…The dominant role on the development of the carbonate platform and reef deposits is played by water depth, which is a response of the interplay of relative sea level changes and tectonic subsidence (Wilson 1999;Zampetti et al 2004;Sattler et al 2009;Wu et al 2008;Xie et al 2011). A 100 m high euphotic zone could have a large growth potential of reefs and carbonate platforms, while shallow water carbonates would be drowned when the rate of increase of water depth is greater than the rate of carbonate accumulation (Schlager and Camber 1986).…”

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“…They can also be important for hydrocarbon exploration, because some reefs and carbonate platforms are highly porous and host nearly one half of the world's hydrocarbon reserves, containing some of the largest aquifers on the Earth (Sun and Esteban 1994;Groetsch et al 1998;Wu et al 2008;Sattler et al 2009). Due to geological and geophysical data acquired in the last decades, Cenozoic shallow water carbonates in the South China Sea have been well documented on its (1) detailed seismic features, stratigraphic architecture, and controlling factors in local regions, such as the northern rim of the Dongsha Islands (Tyrell and Christian 1992); the western Pearl River Mouth Basin (Sattler et al 2009); the Qiongdongnan Basin (Wu et al 2008;Ma et al 2011) in the northern continental margin of the South China Sea; the Phu Khanh Basin (Fyhn et al 2009), the offshore of central Vietnam (Fyhn et al 2013) in the western continental margin; the Dangerous Grounds (Ding et al 2013;Franke et al 2013) in the southern continental margin; and (2) regional time-space distributions, control processes and geologic evolution model (Wilson et al 2000;Xu et al 2002;Madden and Wilson 2013).…”

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Oligocene–Miocene carbonates in the Reed Bank area, South China Sea, and their tectono-sedimentary evolution

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Dong

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Mar Geophys Res

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We have analyzed two recently acquired multichannel seismic profiles across the Reed Bank area, South China Sea. A detailed seismic interpretation coupled with drilling data has proved the occurrence of a wide carbonate platform, developed between the Late Oligocene and the Early Miocene (32-20 Ma). The top of these carbonates is an important regional unconformity, corresponding to a strong and continuous seismic reflector. An age of about 20 Ma is inferred for this reflector, acting as a regional unconformity marking the cessation of seafloor spreading with an erosional/non-depositional hiatus, spanning 3 or 4 m.y. The time interval during which the carbonate platforms formed is concurrent with the opening of the South China Sea. The reconstruction of the tectonic subsidence in this area has shown a decrease in rate of subsidence during the drifting stage (32-17 Ma), indicating that the whole Reed Bank area was in a tectonically stable and shallow water environment for more than 10 m.y., favoring the development of shallow water carbonates. With a sharply increased subsidence rate after the end of spreading (17 Ma) and a continuously increased sea level, the carbonate platforms were drowned and died, except some structural highs with reef buildups, where the carbonate sedimentation continued to Middle Miocene. We suggest that delayed tectonic subsidence in Reed Bank area might have been related to a secondary mantle convection under the rift lasting more than about 10 m.y.

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“…The postulate that a significant number of flooding surfaces serve as sequence boundaries in the domain of [1 9 10 6 years is based on the carbonate record (e.g. Erlich et al 1990;Saller et al 1993;Sattler et al 2009;Zampetti et al 2004). Carbonate systems may be terminated by exposure or they may drown.…”

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Ordered hierarchy versus scale invariance in sequence stratigraphy

Schlager

2009

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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Sequence stratigraphy has been applied in a wide range of scales of time and space, from decimeterthick layers formed within hours to kilometer-thick basin fills formed during hundreds of millions of years. The traditional approach to practice sequence stratigraphy in this wide range of scales is to subdivide the sediment piles into an ordered hierarchy of sequence cycles of different duration and different architecture. An alternative are scaleinvariant models with fractal characteristics. Published data confirm two predictions of the ordered-hierarchy model: sequences of very short duration (\1 9 10 3 years) are parasequences bounded by flooding surfaces, very long sequences ([200 9 10 6 years) are symmetrical transgressive-regressive cycles. However, the sequence record in the range of 1 9 10 4 -200 9 10 6 years, the principal domain of sequence stratigraphy, shows a rather irregular succession of sequences with variable symmetry and bounded by flooding surfaces or exposure surfaces. For these time scales, scale-invariant models are a good first approximation, particularly because the evidence for scale-invariance and randomness in the stratigraphic record is strong: Frequency spectra of sea-level change as well as rates of sedimentation and rates of accommodation change plotted against length of observation span show basic trends indistinguishable from random walk. These trends, combined with scale-invariant sequence models may be the most efficient tools for across-the-board predictions on sequences and for locating islands of order in the sequence record.

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Drowning history of a Miocene carbonate platform (Zhujiang Formation, South China Sea)

Cited by 62 publications

References 42 publications

Carbonate drowning successions of the Bird’s Head, Indonesia

Carbonate drowning successions of the Bird’s Head, Indonesia

Oligocene–Miocene carbonates in the Reed Bank area, South China Sea, and their tectono-sedimentary evolution

Ordered hierarchy versus scale invariance in sequence stratigraphy

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