Quantitative controls on location and architecture of carbonate depositional sequences; upper Miocene, Cabo de Gata region, SE Spain

Franseen, Evan K.; Goldstein, Robert H.; Farr, Mark R.

doi:10.2110/jsr.68.283

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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: 83%

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: 83%

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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“…We propose surface B to be a second index surface identifiable in the marginal areas of the Mediterranean. From chronological data in Melilla-Nador and Sorbas basins, it should date at around 5.95 Ma, which is also supported by GPTS data in Cabo de Gata where the Terminal Carbonate Complex deposition began at the base of chron C3r (Franseen et al 1998;Montgomery et al 2001). The uppermost part of the carbonate platforms is presently not known well enough to propose long-distance correlations: deposits are often incomplete because of late erosion and facies very often change from continental to very shallow water depositional environment with very little chronological information.…”

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“…Magnetostratigraphic studies were devoted to the MelillaNador carbonate platform in NE Morocco (Cunningham et al 1994) and Cabo de Gata in SE Spain (Franseen et al 1998;Montgomery et al 2001). Volcanic deposits interbedded with the littoral to the basinal sediments of the Melilla-Nador basin were dated using Ar 39 /Ar 40 radiometric dating (Cunningham et al 1997;Roger et al 2000;Münch et al 2001;CornØe et al 2002).…”

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Correlations and sequence stratigraphic model for Messinian carbonate platforms of the western and central Mediterranean

Cornée¹,

Martin²,

Conesa³

et al. 2004

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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Distance correlations of Late Tortonian-Messinian littoral carbonate complexes are proposed from the study of eight platforms in the western and central Mediterranean. Correlations are based on the identification of two major biological sedimentary cycles and of two index surfaces. Surface A is a maximum flooding surface during cycle 1 at around 6.7 Ma. Surface B is a regional marine planation surface at around 5.95 Ma, at the base of cycle 2 (Terminal Carbonate Complex). A general sedimentary model is proposed for the 7-5.6-Ma time-span. The boundary between cycles 1 and 2 is coincident with the onset of the Messinian Salinity Crisis, and appears to be related to major environmental-paleooceanographic changes in the Mediterranean, rather than to a major sea-level drop or to climatic change.

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“…From a sedimentologic point of view, the TCC from the Melilla basin displays great similarities with the TCC in other Western Mediteranean marginal basins (Calvet et al 1996;Esteban et al 1996;Franseen et al 1998). However, the former contains only two complete cycles, and locally a third one, whereas the latter generally show three to four cycles (Calvet et al 1996;Franseen et al 1998).…”

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Precise 40Ar/39Ar dating of volcanic tuffs within the upper Messinian sequences in the Melilla carbonate complex (NE Morocco): implications for the Messinian Salinity Crisis

Münch¹,

Cornée²,

Féraud³

et al. 2005

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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International audienceThe Melilla carbonate complex (NE Morocco) is the only area of the Paleo-Mediterranean Sea where volcanic activity was present throughout most of the Messinian. 40Ar/39Ar dating of volcanic tuffs interbedded within the upper Messinian sedimentary deposits, known as the Terminal Carbonate Complex (TCC), yields accurate ages of paleoenvironmental and sea-level changes related to the Messinian Salinity Crisis. The new chronologic data (1) provide an average of 5.95– 5.99 Ma for the base of the TCC, thus being synchronous with the onset of the Messinian Salinity Crisis, (2) demonstrate for the first time that the basal unconformity of the TCC does not represent a hiatus of long duration, (3) define a precise time line at 5.87±0.02 Ma (2 σ) corresponding to sedimentary rocks exhibiting a lateral transition between continental and marine deposits typical of the TCC and (4) yield evidence that emersion of the Melilla platform during deposition of the TCC is partly related to tectono-magmatic activity. An erosional surface, capping the TCC deposits in the Melilla basin, is related to the major Messinian Mediterranean drawdown. The duration of the hiatus, associated with this surface, is estimated to be at most 450 kyr, but is probably shorter

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Quantitative controls on location and architecture of carbonate depositional sequences; upper Miocene, Cabo de Gata region, SE Spain

Cited by 56 publications

References 49 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

Correlations and sequence stratigraphic model for Messinian carbonate platforms of the western and central Mediterranean

Precise 40Ar/39Ar dating of volcanic tuffs within the upper Messinian sequences in the Melilla carbonate complex (NE Morocco): implications for the Messinian Salinity Crisis

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