Stratigraphy and paleoecology of the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene in the open-cast mine Hambach (Lower Rhine Basin)

Heumann, Georg; Litt, T.

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“…In the Roer Valley Graben, Alpine detrital components occur for the first time at the Plio-Quaternary transition (2.6 Ma; Boenigk, 2002;Heumann and Litt, 2002), whilst the timing of the first occurrence of Alpine components in the Upper Rhine Graben is still poorly constrained and may range between 2.9 and 2.6 Ma. Correspondingly, it is uncertain whether during the Late Pliocene (2.9-2.6 Ma) the sedimentary load of the river Aare was effectively trapped in the Upper Rhine Graben.…”

Section: The Rhine Graben Systemmentioning

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TOPO-EUROPE: The geoscience of coupled deep Earth-surface processes

Cloetingh¹,

Ziegler²,

Bogaard³

et al. 2007

Global and Planetary Change

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TOPO-EUROPE addresses the 4-D topographic evolution of the orogens and intra-plate regions of Europe through a multidisciplinary approach linking geology, geophysics, geodesy and geotechnology. TOPO-EUROPE integrates monitoring, imaging, reconstruction and modelling of the interplay between processes controlling continental topography and related natural hazards. Until now, research on neotectonics and related topography development of orogens and intra-plate regions has received little attention. TOPO-EUROPE initiates a number of novel studies on the quantification of rates of vertical motions, related tectonically controlled river evolution and land subsidence in carefully selected natural laboratories in Europe. From orogen through platform to continental margin, these natural laboratories include the Alps/Carpathians-Pannonian Basin System, the West and Central European Platform, the Apennines-Aegean-Anatolian region, the Iberian Peninsula, the Scandinavian Continental Margin, the East-European Platform, and the Caucasus-Levant area. TOPO-EUROPE integrates European research facilities and know-how essential to advance the understanding of the role of topography in Environmental Earth System Dynamics. The principal objective of the network is twofold. Namely, to integrate national research programs into a common European network and, furthermore, to integrate activities among TOPO-EUROPE institutes and participants. Key objectives are to provide an interdisciplinary forum to share knowledge and information in the field of the neotectonic and topographic evolution of Europe, to

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Section: The Rhine Graben Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

TOPO-EUROPE: The geoscience of coupled deep Earth-surface processes

Cloetingh¹,

Ziegler²,

Bogaard³

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“…Note that first Alpine heavy minerals appear in the Lower Rhine graben at the Plio-Quaternary transition (Boenigk 2002;Heumann and Litt 2002).…”

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Paleogeography of the Upper Rhine Graben (URG) and the Swiss Molasse Basin (SMB) from Eocene to Pliocene

Berger¹,

Reichenbacher²,

Becker³

et al. 2005

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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Twenty paleogeographic maps are presented for Middle Eocene (Lutetian) to Late Pliocene times according to the stratigraphical data given in the companion paper by Berger et al. this volume. Following a first lacustrine-continental sedimentation during the Middle Eocene, two and locally three Rupelian transgressive events were identified with the first corresponding with the Early Rupelian Middle Pechelbronn beds and the second and third with the Late Rupelian ( Serie Grise ) (Fischschiefer and equivalents). During the Early Rupelian (Middle Pechelbronn beds), a connection between North Sea and URG is clearly demonstrated, but a general connection between North Sea, URG and Paratethys, via the Alpine sea, is proposed, but not proved, during the late Rupelian. Whereas in the southern URG, a major hiatus spans Early Aquitanian to Pliocene times, Early and Middle Miocene marine, brackish and freshwater facies occur in the northern URG and in the Molasse Basin (OMM, OSM); however, no marine connections between these basins could be demonstrated during this time. After the deposition of the molasse series, a very complex drainage pattern developed during the Late Miocene and Pliocene, with a clear connection to the Bresse Graben during the Piacenzian (Sundgau gravels). During the Late Miocene, Pliocene and Quaternary sedimentation persisted in the northern URG with hardly any interruptions. The present drainage pattern of the Rhine river (from Alpine area to the lower Rhine Embayment) was not established before the Early Pleistocene.

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“…During the late Pliocene, the Upper Rhine Graben was drained northward by a low energy river (Bingen-Koblenz Rhine) that linked up with the higher energy Moselle River which crossed the Rhenish Massif and debouched into the Roer Valley Graben where the Kieseloolite sands and gravels were deposited (Brunnacker and Boenigk 1983;Klett et al 2002;Sissingh 2003). At the end of the Pliocene (1.65 Ma) the first arrival of Alpine detrital components in the Roer Valley Graben (Boenigk 2002;Heumann and Litt 2002) indicates that sediment supply to the Upper Rhine Graben apparently exceeded its subsidence rates. During the Quaternary, the erosional base-level of the continuously subsiding Upper Rhine Graben was controlled by the uplift-rate of the Rhenish Massif and the incision-rate of the Rhine River.…”

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Evolution of the lithosphere in the area of the Rhine Rift System

Ziegler

Dèzes

2005

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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The Rhine Rift System (RRS) forms part of the European Cenozoic Rift System (ECRIS) and transects the Variscan Orogen, Permo-Carboniferous troughs and Late Permian to Mesozoic thermal sag basins. Crustal and lithospheric thicknesses range in the RRS area between 24-36 km and 50-120 km, respectively. We discuss processes controlling the transformation of the orogenically destabilised Variscan lithosphere into an end-Mesozoic stabilised cratonic lithosphere, as well as its renewed destabilisation during the Cenozoic development of ECRIS. By end-Westphalian times, the major sutures of the Variscan Orogen were associated with 45-60 km deep crustal roots. During the Stephanian-Early Permian, regional exhumation of the Variscides was controlled by their wrench deformation, detachment of subducted lithospheric slabs, asthenospheric upwelling and thermal thinning of the mantlelithosphere. By late Early Permian times, when asthenospheric temperatures returned to ambient levels, lithospheric thicknesses ranged between 40 km and 80 km, whilst the thickness of the crust was reduced to 28-35 km in response to its regional erosional and local tectonic unroofing and the interaction of mantle-derived melts with its basal parts. Re-equilibration of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system governed the subsidence of Late Permian-Mesozoic thermal sag basins that covered much of the RRS area. By end-Cretaceous times, lithospheric thicknesses had increased to 100-120 km. Paleocene mantle plumes caused renewed thermal weakening of the lithosphere. Starting in the late Eocene, ECRIS evolved in the Pyrenean and Alpine foreland by passive rifting under a collision-related north-directed compressional stress field. Following endOligocene consolidation of the Pyrenees, west-and northwest-directed stresses originating in the Alps controlled further development of ECRIS. The RRS remained active until the Present, whilst the southern branch of ECRIS aborted in the early Miocene. Extensional strain across ECRIS amounts to some 7 km. Plume-related thermal thinning of the lithosphere underlies uplift of the Rhenish Massif and Massif Central. Lithospheric folding controlled uplift of the VosgesBlack Forest Arch.

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Stratigraphy and paleoecology of the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene in the open-cast mine Hambach (Lower Rhine Basin)

Cited by 20 publications

References 4 publications

TOPO-EUROPE: The geoscience of coupled deep Earth-surface processes

TOPO-EUROPE: The geoscience of coupled deep Earth-surface processes

Paleogeography of the Upper Rhine Graben (URG) and the Swiss Molasse Basin (SMB) from Eocene to Pliocene

Evolution of the lithosphere in the area of the Rhine Rift System

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