Evolution of a turbidite system in a narrow basin setting: the Ropianka Fm (Campanian–Paleocene) in the Skole Nappe of the Polish Carpathians

Abstract

Facies analysis plays an important role in basin analysis and serves as a tool to track the evolution of fossil depositional environments. This also applies to the deep-water setting, where turbidite systems represent an ultimate sink for the vast majority of sedimentary materials on Earth, including anthropogenic pollutants (e.g., Martin et al., 2022). The consequence of the capturing and burial of these deposits has also a great influence on carbon sequestration and climate (e.g., Arthur et al., 1988). Our understanding of the architecture and evolution of deep-water systems is constantly growing and models for facies prediction are now better than ever. However, the multiplicity of factors, which strongly influence turbidite systems (e.g., nature of the source, tectonic setting, eustatic sea-level changes, climate), leads to a wide variety of ancient records and proposed models that describe them (e.g.