Pinning points: a method providing quantitative constraints on relative sea-level history

Goldstein, Robert H.; Franseen, Evan K.

doi:10.1016/0037-0738(94)00115-b

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“…We relate it to an interregional sea level fall in the order of 100 m (Troelstra et al, 1980;Dronkert, 1985) during late Abad times and to the ensuing, but variable low-stand during deposition of the marine Yesares Gypsum. This interpretation of an approximately 100 m sea-level drop is less dramatic than total desiccation claimed by Riding et al (1999) and is in line with quantitative pinning point studies of sealevel fluctuations in the coeval reefal complex of Las Negras (Nijar Basin; Goldstein and Franseen, 1995;Franseen et al, 1998).…”

Section: The Pre-yesares Erosion Surfacesupporting

confidence: 84%

Late Miocene Mediterranean desiccation: topography and significance of the ‘Salinity Crisis’ erosion surface on-land in southeast Spain: Comment

Fortuin

Krijgsman

Hilgen

et al. 2000

Sedimentary Geology

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Section: The Pre-yesares Erosion Surfacesupporting

confidence: 84%

Late Miocene Mediterranean desiccation: topography and significance of the ‘Salinity Crisis’ erosion surface on-land in southeast Spain: Comment

Fortuin

Krijgsman

Hilgen

et al. 2000

Sedimentary Geology

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“…The process used to calculate these is similar to the pinning-point methodology of Goldstein and Franseen (1995). In order to minimize the effect of postdepositional tilting and flexing, the relative sea-level curve was calculated on a vertical section where possible (e.g., Alahan, Zincir Kaya).…”

Section: Estimating Sea-level Changementioning

confidence: 99%

The stratigraphic architecture and evolution of the Burdigalian carbonate—siliciclastic sedimentary systems of the Mut Basin, Turkey

Bassant

Buchem

Strasser

et al. 2005

Sedimentary Geology

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“…Unfortunately, outcrop conditions in the Swiss and French Jura are such that good sections are rare. The only tie points for the sea-level curve ("pinning points" of Goldstein and Franseen, 1995) are intertidal or marginal-marine facies, where mean sea level is at zero. If a vadose zone is developed, sea level must have fallen at least to the base of this zone.…”

Section: Reconstruction Of Eustatic Sea-level Changesmentioning

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Cyclostratigraphic Timing of Sedimentary Processes: An Example From the Berriasian of the Swiss and French Jura Mountains

Strasser

Hillgärtner

Pasquier

2004

Cyclostratigraphy: Approaches and Case Histories

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ABSTRACT:The Berriasian Pierre-Châtel Formation in the Swiss and French Jura Mountains is dominated by shallow-marine carbonates that overlie lacustrine and marginal-marine sediments with a major transgressive surface. Detailed facies analysis of five sections allows the definition of elementary and small-scale depositional sequences, which commonly exhibit deepening-shallowing trends. Benthic foraminifera and rare ammonites on the platform, as well as a sequence-stratigraphic correlation with a well-dated deeper-water section, furnish the biostratigraphic framework. Thus, the large-scale sequence boundaries below and at the top of the Pierre-Châtel Formation can be correlated with dated boundaries in other European basins. This time constraint and the hierarchical stacking pattern on the platform as well as in the basin suggest that the sea-level fluctuations influencing the formation of the depositional sequences were controlled, at least partly, by Milankovitch cycles. The elementary sequences correspond to the 20 ky precession cycle, and the small-scale sequences to the 100 ky eccentricity cycle.Uncertainties in the definition of sequences exist if facies contrasts are too low to develop clearly marked sequence boundaries or maximum-flooding intervals. Nevertheless, a best-fit solution for the correlation of the small-scale sequences between the studied sections can be proposed. The lowermost three small-scale sequences of the Pierre-Châtel Formation are analyzed in detail. They are decompacted and correlated on the level of the elementary sequences. Within this relatively precise time frame, the flooding of the Jura platform (following the early Berriasian sea-level lowstand) can be monitored. It is seen that the transgression occurred stepwise: every 20 ky, a transgressive pulse established marine facies farther towards the platform interior.This study demonstrates that the cyclostratigraphical approach makes it possible to construct a narrow time frame, within which the rates of sedimentary, ecological, and diagenetic processes can be evaluated, phases of differential subsidence identified, and the durations of stratigraphic gaps estimated. The complex and dynamic evolution of an ancient carbonate platform can thus be studied with a time resolution of 20 to 100 ky.

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Pinning points: a method providing quantitative constraints on relative sea-level history

Cited by 58 publications

References 19 publications

Late Miocene Mediterranean desiccation: topography and significance of the ‘Salinity Crisis’ erosion surface on-land in southeast Spain: Comment

Late Miocene Mediterranean desiccation: topography and significance of the ‘Salinity Crisis’ erosion surface on-land in southeast Spain: Comment

The stratigraphic architecture and evolution of the Burdigalian carbonate—siliciclastic sedimentary systems of the Mut Basin, Turkey

Cyclostratigraphic Timing of Sedimentary Processes: An Example From the Berriasian of the Swiss and French Jura Mountains

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