New biostratigraphic data from the Cretaceous Bolinxiala Formation in Zanda, southwestern Tibet of China, and their paleogeographic and paleoceanographic implications

Li, Guobiao; Jiang, Ganqing; Hu, Xiumian; Wan, Xiaoqiao

doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2009.03.005

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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. 8).…”

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confidence: 76%

“…7; Wan, 1985;Wan et al, 2000;Zhao and Wan, 2003), the upper Bolinxiala Formation in Zanda (section 4 in Fig. 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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confidence: 93%

“…In general, Upper Cretaceous strata from the southern Tethyan Himalaya record shallow to deep shelf environments, while time-equivalent units from the northern Tethyan Himalaya document continental slope to basinal environments (Yu and Wang, 1990;Liu, 1992;Willems, 1993;Willems et al, 1995;Liu and Einsele, 1994;Wan et al, 2005a,b;Li et al, 2003Li et al, , 2009a. On the basis of biostratigraphic correlation (Fig.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…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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confidence: 99%

“…Upper Cretaceous oceanic red beds (CORBs) are widespread in the northern Tethyan Himalaya of Southern Tibet, China Wan et al, 2005a,b;Wang et al, 2005;Li et al, 2007Li et al, , 2009a. These CORBs consist of reddish to pink limestone, marlstones, shale, siltstone, and radiolarian cherts (siliceous rocks) that are commonly assigned to the Chuangde Formation.…”

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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

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2011

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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

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2011

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

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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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New biostratigraphic data from the Cretaceous Bolinxiala Formation in Zanda, southwestern Tibet of China, and their paleogeographic and paleoceanographic implications

Cited by 35 publications

References 23 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

High-Resolution Intrabasinal to Inter-regional Geodynamic Chronicle During the Span of the Intra-Permian–Intra-Paleogene Mega-Sequence in and Around India on the GTM

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