The Devonian and Carboniferous of the Moscow Syneclise (Russian Platform): stratigraphy and sea-level changes

Алексеев, А. С.; Kononova, L. I.; Никишин, А. М.

doi:10.1016/s0040-1951(96)00229-6

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“…14). The Donets-based curve compares broadly, within the uncertainties of biostratigraphic correlation, with a regional onlap curve derived from the carbonate-dominated succession of the intracratonic Moscow Basin (Alekseev et al, 1996). Apparent disparity between the two onlap curves may be attributed to differences in the techniques used to derive sea-level history and significant difference between the accommodation histories of the Donets Basin (rapid rates and high overall accommodation) and the Russian Platform (slow rates and overall low accommodation) .…”

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“…Following C, an aggradational-to-progradational deltaic system comparable to phase B developed during progressively decreasing rates of accommodation of the highstand. (Alekseev et al, 1996), temporal and spatial distribution of coals and evaporites in the Donets succession, and best estimates of ages of high-latitude glaciations. Time-scale, U-Pb ages, limestone marker beds, and trendline as in Fig.…”

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Sequence stratigraphy and onlap history of the Donets Basin, Ukraine: Insight into Carboniferous icehouse dynamics

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The degree to which Permo-Carboniferous cyclothemic successions archive evidence for longterm variations in ice volume during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age is insufficiently resolved. Here we develop the sequence stratigraphy and onlap-offlap history for a 33-my interval of the Carboniferous using the U-Pb calibrated succession of the Donets Basin, Ukraine, in order to assess the relationship between sea-level, high-latitude changes in glacial extent, and climate. Integrated subsurface and outcrop data permit meter-scale correlation of 242 biostratigraphically constrained limestones and coals, and in turn individual cyclothems, across ~250 km of the Donets Basin. Rapid uniform subsidence and basinwide continuity of marker beds indicate Pennsylvanian deposition under relatively stable tectonic conditions. Three scales of sequences (avg. durations of ~140 ky, ~480 ky and 1.6 my) are recognized on the basis of stratigraphic stacking patterns and basinwide architecture of marine to terrestrial facies assemblages.The hierarchy of sequences and the geographic and stratigraphic positions of shifts in base-level sensitive facies across the Donets ramp permit the construction of an onlap-offlap history at a sub-400 ky scale. Major sea-level lowstands occur across the mid-Carboniferous boundary and during the early Moscovian. These lowstands coincide with glacial maxima inferred from highlatitude glacigenic deposits. The middle to late Pennsylvanian is characterized by a stepwise onlap, culminating in an earliest Gzhelian highstand, suggesting contraction of Carboniferous ice sheets prior to the initiation of Early Permian glaciation.The stratigraphic position of climate sensitive facies within individual Donets cyclothems indicates a turnover from seasonal sub-humid or semi-arid climate to everwet conditions during the late lowstand and maximum ice sheet accumulation. Comparison of the stratigraphic and aerial distribution of coals and evaporites in the Donets Basin with the onlap-offlap history further indicates everwet conditions during lowstands and inferred glacial maxima and drier climate during onlap and inferred ice sheet contraction at the intermediate (~0.8 to 1.6 my) and long (10 6 yr) time-scales. Taken together, the relationship between inferred climate and glacioeustasy suggests a likely teleconnection between high-latitude ice sheet behavior and low-latitude atmospheric dynamics.

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Sequence stratigraphy and onlap history of the Donets Basin, Ukraine: Insight into Carboniferous icehouse dynamics

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“…These deformations commenced during the latest Silurian and lasted until Middle Devonian times (Chaikin, 1986;Milanovsky, 1987;Kuzmenko et al, 1991). Data from the Moscow Basin demonstrate that the main uplift event took place between mid-Lochkovian and mid-Emsian times (Alekseev et al, 1996) and thus is coeval with the uplift and transtensional deformation of the Pechora Basin (Dedeev et al, 1995;V.N. Malyshev, pers.…”

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“…Prior to the onset of crustal extension, the Ukrainian Shield and Voronezh High were partially covered by marine Middle Devonian sediments (Alekseev et al, 1996). Volumetrically significant magmatism (Wilson and Lyashkevich, 1996), accompanied by a broad lithospheric doming of the rift flanks, commenced shortly after or contemporaneous with the onset of crustal extension.…”

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Late Precambrian to Triassic history of the East European Craton: dynamics of sedimentary basin evolution

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During its Riphean to Palaeozoic evolution, the East European Craton was affected by rift phases during Early, Middle and Late Riphean, early Vendian, early Palaeozoic, Early Devonian and Middle-Late Devonian times and again at the transition from the Carboniferous to the Permian and the Permian to the Triassic. These main rifting cycles were separated by phases of intraplate compressional tectonics at the transition from the Early to the Middle Riphean, the Middle to the Late Riphean, the Late Riphean to the Vendian, during the mid-Early Cambrian, at the transition from the Cambrian to the Ordovician, the Silurian to the Early Devonian, the Early to the Middle Devonian, the Carboniferous to Permian and the Triassic to the Jurassic. Main rift cycles axe dynamically related to the separation of continental terranes from the margins of the East European Craton and the opening of Atlantic-type palaeo-oceans and/or back-arc basins. Phases of intraplate compression, causing inversion of extensional basins, coincide with the development of collisional belts along the margins of the East European Craton. The origin and evolution of sedimentary basins on the East European Craton was governed by repeatedly changing regional stress fields. Periods of stress field changes coincide with changes in the drift direction, velocity and rotation of the East European plate and its interaction with adjacent plates. Intraplate magmatism was controlled by changes in stress fields and by mantle hot-spot activity. Geodynamieally speaking, different types of magmatism occurred simultaneously.

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“…The limestone beds can be traced across much of the Donets Basin, reflecting the low slope (<< 1°) of the depositional ramp (Eros et al, 2012). The Donets depositional ramp extended for thousands of kilometers along the western and northern edges of the warm tropical Tethyan Ocean (Alekseev et al, 1996). Essentially isochronous biostratigraphically dated limestones provide laterally extensive marker beds that underpin a detailed chronostratigraphic framework for the Donets Basin (Aisenverg et al, 1963, Makarov, 1985.…”

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Climate- and eustasy-driven cyclicity in Pennsylvanian fusulinid assemblages, Donets Basin (Ukraine)

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A model of cyclic recurrence (~0. 6 -1.2 myr) of three fusulinid assemblages in the Middle Pennsylvanian siliciclastic-carbonate succession of the Donets Basin is proposed. Each cycle records progressive turnover of assemblages in shallow marine environments in response to sea-level and regional climate change. A Hemifusulina-assemblage (A), adapted to cooler and reduced salinity seawater records the onset of sea level rise accompanied by humid climatic conditions. Sea level high stand is captured by the Beedeina-Neostaffella-OzawainellaTaitzehoella (or Beedeina-dominated) assemblage (B), characteristic of relatively deeper-water environments. The B assemblage is successively replaced by the most diverse population of the warm-water Fusulinella-dominated assemblage (C). This assemblage, which occurs in the upper limestones of each fusulinid cycle records the onset of sea level fall accompanied by a shift to drier conditions and likely increased seawater salinity.The proposed model permits robust interbasinal correlation of the Pennsylvanian successions of the Tethyan realm. Fusulinids of the A and C 2 assemblages are the most provincial and therefore the most useful for paleogeographic reconstructions. Specifically, they delineate originally contiguous regions that subsequently were dispersed hundreds to thousands of kilometers, whereas fusulinids of the B assemblage hold the highest potential for global correlation. Extinction at the Moscovian -Kasimovian transition of fusulinid genera of the A and B assemblages, which inhabited predominately cooler and normal salinity (perhaps hyposaline) waters, can be explained by the onset of global warming in the earliest Late Pennsylvanian. Fusulinid assemblages define various types of distribution patterns that differ by tectonic setting of the studied basins suggesting that fusulinid assemblage patterns hold potential for reconstructing the paleogeography and tectonic evolution of Pennsylvanian basins of eastern Laurasia.

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The Devonian and Carboniferous of the Moscow Syneclise (Russian Platform): stratigraphy and sea-level changes

Cited by 96 publications

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Sequence stratigraphy and onlap history of the Donets Basin, Ukraine: Insight into Carboniferous icehouse dynamics

Sequence stratigraphy and onlap history of the Donets Basin, Ukraine: Insight into Carboniferous icehouse dynamics

Late Precambrian to Triassic history of the East European Craton: dynamics of sedimentary basin evolution

Climate- and eustasy-driven cyclicity in Pennsylvanian fusulinid assemblages, Donets Basin (Ukraine)

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