New biostratigraphic data for the Chikkim Formation (Cretaceous, Tethyan Himalaya, India)

Bertle, R. J.; Suttner, Thomas J.

doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2005.06.001

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“…(3) Chikkim, Spiti (Bertle and Suttner, 2005); (4) Bolin, Zanda (Li et al, 2009a); (12) Zongshan, Gamba (Wan, 1985;Wan et al, 2000;Zhao and Wan, 2003;Li et al, 2003) and (10) Jiabula, Gyangze (Zhao and Wan, 2003 the ocean or close to localities of hydrothermal activity. In addition, if the bottom water was oxic, upwelling waters from the deep ocean could not carry Fe 3+ up to the middle or upper slope environment (like the case in the Tethyan Himalaya; Fig.…”

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“…In the Tethyan Himalaya, however, both ammonites and inoceramids are too rare to be used for stratigraphic correlation with other global successions. As an alternative, planktic foraminifera that are widespread in the Tethyan Himalaya region (Wan, 1985;Wan et al, 1997;Wan et al, 2000;Wan and Ding, 2002;Wan et al, 2005a;Wan et al, 2005b;Li et al, 2007) and other successions globally have been used extensively as index fossils for regional and global correlation (Caron, 1985;Robaszynski and Caron, 1995;Wan et al, 2005a;Bertle and Suttner, 2005;Li et al, 2007). The well-preserved planktic foraminifera from the Chuangde Formation (CORBs) in Kangmar can be divided into several foraminiferal Zones according to Robaszynski and Caron's (1995) planktic foraminiferal zonal schemes.…”

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“…7; Li et al, 2009a), and the upper Chikkim Formation in Spiti (section 3 in Fig. 7; Bertle and Suttner, 2005).…”

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“…The presence of sandy limestone beds, large benthic foraminifera, abundant vertical burrows and hardgrounds in Spiti (Bertle and Suttner, 2005) suggests deposition in the proximal side of the carbonate shelf (inner shelf). In contrast, the abundance of bioclastic wackestone and packstone with bivalves, calcispheres, rotaliids, and spicules in Zanda (Li et al, 2009a) suggests a middle shelf environment that may have been partially restricted by the shelf margin (Fig.…”

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“…In the western part of the Tethyan Himalaya, the upper part of the Chikkim Formation in Spiti and the Bolinxiala Formation in Zanda (Campanian-Maastrichtian) contain bioclastic grainstones and packstones, benthic foraminifera and abundant bioturbation (Bertle and Suttner, 2005;Li et al, 2009a), indicating deposition from carbonate shelf environments at least episodically above fair-weather wave base. The presence of sandy limestone beds, large benthic foraminifera, abundant vertical burrows and hardgrounds in Spiti (Bertle and Suttner, 2005) suggests deposition in the proximal side of the carbonate shelf (inner shelf).…”

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The age of the Chuangde Formation in Kangmar, southern Tibet of China: Implications for the origin of Cretaceous oceanic red beds (CORBs) in the northern Tethyan Himalaya

Jiang

Wan

2011

Sedimentary Geology

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“…7; Li et al, 2009a), and the upper Chikkim Formation in Spiti (section 3 in Fig. 7; Bertle and Suttner, 2005).…”

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The age of the Chuangde Formation in Kangmar, southern Tibet of China: Implications for the origin of Cretaceous oceanic red beds (CORBs) in the northern Tethyan Himalaya

Jiang

Wan

2011

Sedimentary Geology

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Shallow‐marine Cretaceous oceanic red beds from the southern Tethyan Himalaya, Tibet, western China: Biostratigraphy, microfacies analysis, and global correlations

Wang

et al. 2020

Geological Journal

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The “Cretaceous oceanic red beds (CORBs)” associated with “oceanic oxic events” have become a hot topic for geologists from around the world. In southern Tibet, the CORBs are widely distributed in the Upper Cretaceous of the northern Tethys Himalayas, but they have never been reported from the southern Tethyan Himalaya (Tibet, China). A mixed Upper Cretaceous carbonate‐shale succession is well exposed in the Gyabukeqing section of Guru town, Yadong County, southern Tibet, which tectonically belongs to the southern Tethyan Himalaya. These sedimentary strata constitute the transition from the Gangbacunkou Formation shale towards the Zongshan Formation limestone through the Jiubao Formation alternations of marl and shale. The Gangbacunkou Formation is characterized by grey‐greenish shales occasionally interspersed with laminated marls, followed by the Jiubao Formation composed of marls with interbeds of shales, which is overlain by the limestones of the Zongshan Formation. A 5‐m‐thick purplish marl bed was found from the lower Jiubao Formation in the Gyabukeqing section, and these reddish marls are assignable to shallow marine red beds. Detailed foraminifer biostratigraphy established five planktic foraminifer zones: Dicarinella covcavata, D. asymetrica, Globotruncanita elevata, G. ventricosa, and Radotruncana calcarata throughout the entire Upper Cretaceous succession in the Gyabukeqing section. The reddish marl beds are constrained as middle Campanian in age as they are calibrated to the middle part of the foraminifer Radotruncana calcarata Zone. As a comparison, the typical CORBs of pelagic–hemipelagic settings are also documented from the Upper Cretaceous of the northern Tethys Himalayas in southern Tibet. A total of 10 microfacies were recognized from the entire sequence of the Upper Cretaceous outer shelf‐slope settings in the Yadong area, southern Tibet. The Yadong red marl beds represent the sedimentation of the foraminiferal biomicrite/foraminiferal wackestone and mudstone/mudrock microfacies, pointing to a shallow marine continental shelf margin setting. Global biostratigraphic correlations indicate that the Yadong red marl beds are coeval with the typical CORBs of the Gyangze and Kangmar documented from the northern Tethys Himalayas in this study or reported previously from the same region as well as elsewhere in the world. The Yadong red beds also are comparable in lithology and biostratigraphy with the shallow marine red beds documented from Europe, and they all may represent the contemporaneous deposition of the CORBs in shallow shelf. These shallow marine CORBs share similar depositional mechanisms: undergoing a phase of iron and manganese enrichment in seawater due to injection of deep sea anoxic water to shallow shelf, followed by oxidization in shallow settings or being oxidized during diagenetic process or a response to the oxygenation of coeval CORBs in deep seas.

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Biostratigraphic Implications of the Calcareous Nannofossils from the Spiti Formation at Langza, Spiti Valley

Singh¹,

Deori

Pandey

et al. 2021

Mesozoic Stratigraphy of India

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New biostratigraphic data for the Chikkim Formation (Cretaceous, Tethyan Himalaya, India)

Cited by 30 publications

References 8 publications

The age of the Chuangde Formation in Kangmar, southern Tibet of China: Implications for the origin of Cretaceous oceanic red beds (CORBs) in the northern Tethyan Himalaya

The age of the Chuangde Formation in Kangmar, southern Tibet of China: Implications for the origin of Cretaceous oceanic red beds (CORBs) in the northern Tethyan Himalaya

Shallow‐marine Cretaceous oceanic red beds from the southern Tethyan Himalaya, Tibet, western China: Biostratigraphy, microfacies analysis, and global correlations

Biostratigraphic Implications of the Calcareous Nannofossils from the Spiti Formation at Langza, Spiti Valley

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