Miocene Depositional Sequences within a Tectonically Controlled Transgressive–Regressive Cycle

Crumeyrolle, Philippe; Rubino, Jean‐Loup; Clauzon, Georges

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“…Hülsemann, 1955;Salvermoser, 1999) and Austrian (Faupl & Roetzel, 1987Krenmayr, 1991) parts of the seaway. Its correlation is based on the lithostratigraphic framework introduced by Schreiner (1976), Lemcke (1988), Doppler (1989), Keller (1989), Bachmann & Müller (1991), Crumeyrolle et al (1991), Luterbacher et al (1992), Roetzel & Rupp (1991) and Schreiner Fig. 3.…”

Section: Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Facies Of The Upper Marine Molassementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In southeast France, the Mediterranean Sea occupied an elongated seaway (Demarcq, 1970), with a gulf-like morphology (Demarcq & Perriaux, 1984;Tessier & Gigot, 1989;Crumeyrolle et al, 1991), which was bordered by the Alpine front in the east (Fig. 3).…”

Section: Basin Shapementioning

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“…Taking a C d of 0.005, we used a rather high value to account for relatively high bed roughness due to tidal bedforms (see also Martel et al, 1994). Crumeyrolle et al (1991) proposed a macrotidal regime for the Digne area in southeast France. Initial simulation results showed that this can be reproduced if a tidal amplitude of 2 m is used at the southern open boundary of the model.…”

Section: Model Setup -Boundary Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It also can be correlated to a global eustatic sea-level rise (e.g. Haq et al, 1988;Crumeyrolle et al, 1991;Zweigel et al, 1998).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…Homewood et al, 1985). Tide-influenced deposits such as sand waves, bidirectional cross-stratification and neap-spring tidal-bundle sequences have been recognized within outcrops in France (Tessier & Gigot, 1989;Lesueur et al, 1990;Assemat, 1991;Crumeyrolle et al, 1991;Allen & Bass, 1993;Rögl, 1999, Couëffé et al, 2004, Switzerland (Diem, 1985;Allen, 1984;Homewood & Allen, 1981;Homewood et al, 1986;Allen et al, 1985), southern Germany and Austria (Hülsemann, 1955;Faupl & Roetzel, 1987Krenmayr, 1991;Krenmyar & Roetzel, 1996;Salvermoser, 1999). Many of these studies provide information on the local current directions of the ebb and the flood.…”

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Simulation of Tidal Flow and Circulation Patterns in the Early Miocene (Upper Marine Molasse) of the Alpine Foreland Basin

Bieg¹,

Süss²,

Kuhlemann³

2008

Analogue and Numerical Modelling of Sedimentary Systems: From Understanding to Prediction

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During the Ottnangian (Early Miocene) the peripheral Alpine foreland basin was flooded by a shallow sea, which linked the Mediterranean in the south with the Paratethys in the northeast. Since this seaway shows a clear evolution and did not exist uniformly during the period investigated, we reconstructed its palaeogeography and bathymetry for the time of its maximum extent in the German part of the Molasse Basin. For this time interval tidal deposits are known from France and Switzerland towards Austria. A fully non-linear three-dimensional hydrodynamic model has been applied to reconstruct tidal currents and amplitudes. Residual currents are interpreted to represent net transport directions of sediments within the seaway. The model is forced at its open boundaries by semi-diurnal M 2 waves. The sensitivity of the tidal model has been tested, using different tidal amplitudes and phases at the open model boundaries. Based on this, the model indicates high mesotidal ranges, similar to those deduced from outcrops in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. The model suggests a complex system of convergent and divergent currents in the seaway, mainly along circular pathways.

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Section: Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Facies Of The Upper Marine Molassementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Basin Shapementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Model Setup -Boundary Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It also can be correlated to a global eustatic sea-level rise (e.g. Haq et al, 1988;Crumeyrolle et al, 1991;Zweigel et al, 1998).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Simulation of Tidal Flow and Circulation Patterns in the Early Miocene (Upper Marine Molasse) of the Alpine Foreland Basin

Bieg¹,

Süss²,

Kuhlemann³

2008

Analogue and Numerical Modelling of Sedimentary Systems: From Understanding to Prediction

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Facies Architecture and Cyclicity of an Upper Carboniferous Carbonate Ramp Developed in a Variscan Piggy‐Back Basin (Cantabrian Mountains, Northwest Spain)

Merino-Tomé

Bahamonde

Fernández

et al. 2007

Sedimentary Processes, Environments and Basins

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The latest Moscovian (late Myachkovsky) to Gzhelian succession in the northern sector of the Picos de Europa Province (Cantabrian Mountains, northwest Spain) was deposited in a rapidly subsiding piggy-back basin. The succession has been subdivided into 11 mappable depositional sequences (3rd-4th order), which have in turn been grouped into two sequence sets, and they are formed of several higher order cycles (4th-5th order). This work focuses on the study of a carbonate ramp system (Puentellés Formation, northern proximal deposits of Sequences 8-10), where the cyclicity is best developed. Each of the three depositional sequences forming the Puentellés Formation comprises a fining upward lower part, which consists of several higher order (metric to decimetric) cycles with similar internal organization, and an upper part mainly arranged in metric to decametric shallowing upward parasequences. The results of this study suggest that tectonic activity controlled the configuration and long-term development of the latest Moscovian (late Myachkovsky) to Gzhelian basins, being responsible for the large-scale stratigraphical architecture (sequence sets). Eustasy, on the other hand, was the driving mechanism for the higher frequency architecture (3rd-5th-order cyclicity).The subsidence curves are similar for both sequence sets, showing a maximum subsidence rate in the beginning that gradually decreased, reflecting the tectonic load during two major phases of thrust-sheet emplacement. The unconformity between both sequence sets records an intense phase of erosion linked to uplift of the northern sector of the Picos de Europa Province due to the onset of the emplacement of the Picos de Europa thrust sheets. The tectonic deformation was also responsible for the angular unconformities and the syntectonic unconformities that bound the depositional sequences, but the unconformities in themselves were a consequence of eustatic sea-level falls. The lower part of each sequence in the Puentellés Formation records late lowstand clastic sedimentation in flood-dominated deltas and fan-deltas, which co-existed with a reduced carbonate production in a narrow shallow-water ramp. The minor unconformities that bound the 4th-5th-order cycles are only present in the lower part of the 3rd-order sequences, and are interpreted to have developed when minor tectonic uplift was enhanced during lowstand stages. The upper part, mainly composed of autochthonous carbonates (including microbial and algal boundstones, among others), represents the abandonment of the previous clastic systems and the encroachment and aggradation of the carbonate ramps during rising and highstand stages.The development of the Puentellés carbonate ramp was exceptional in that, normally, terrigenous influx typical of active tectonic regimes adversely affects carbonate production, preventing the development of carbonate depositional systems. In this case, the clastic supply was mainly calcareous, due to the composition of the source area, and as a consequence, almost no terrige...

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The Geology of Fluvial Deposits

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2006

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Miocene Depositional Sequences within a Tectonically Controlled Transgressive–Regressive Cycle

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Simulation of Tidal Flow and Circulation Patterns in the Early Miocene (Upper Marine Molasse) of the Alpine Foreland Basin

Simulation of Tidal Flow and Circulation Patterns in the Early Miocene (Upper Marine Molasse) of the Alpine Foreland Basin

Facies Architecture and Cyclicity of an Upper Carboniferous Carbonate Ramp Developed in a Variscan Piggy‐Back Basin (Cantabrian Mountains, Northwest Spain)

The Geology of Fluvial Deposits

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