The dismantling of the Apulian carbonate platform during the late Campanian – early Maastrichtian in Albania

Abstract

The dismantling of the Apulian carbonate platform during the late Campanian-early Maastrichtian in Albania.

On the architecture of intra-formational Mass-Transport Deposits: Insights from the carbonate slopes of Great Bahama Bank and the Apulian Carbonate Platform

“…20 Myr resedimentation period of the studied GBB and APCP carbonate-slope series (Burdigalian to Recent, and Campanian to Danian, respectively; Eberli and Ginsburg, 1987;Zappaterra, 1994;Eberli et al, 2004;Robertson and Shallo, 2000). Notwithstanding, the influence of far-field tectonics was recognized in both regions: the development of the Cuba orogen led to thrust loading and progressive bulging of the Santaren Anticline south of GBB (Masaferro et al, 1999;Cruz-Orosa et al, 2012), whereas the Middle Jurassic to Tertiary closure of the Pindos-Mirdita Ocean and the associated advance of thrust fronts gradually affected APCP (Mindszenty et al, 1995;Shallo and Dilek, 2003;Dilek et al, 2007;Le Goff et al, 2019).…”

“…MTDs associated with platform margin collapse have been documented along the eastern edge of APCP, in particular in the Gargano Promontory (Italy) where Upper Jurassic to Upper Cretaceous slope and basin sediments are exposed (Borgomano, 2000;Hairabian et al, 2015;Jablonská et al, 2016Jablonská et al, , 2018Korneva et al, 2016) and in southern Albania where Upper Cretaceous platform and slope deposits crop out (Rubert et al, 2012;Le Goff et al, 2019). The study area is situated along the Mali Gjere mountain ridge in southern Albania (Fig.…”

“…Knowledge about sedimentary facies, strain partitioning and the BSS are key to reconstructing the dynamics of coherent mass-flows and the interaction of failed strata with the seafloor in deposit-based studies (Fallgatter et al, 2017;Sobiesiak et al, 2018). Paleoslope reconstructions along the APCP margin rely on exposures of the Ionian Basin series in Albania, Italy and Greece (Korneva et al, 2016;Jablonská et al, 2016Jablonská et al, , 2018Le Goff et al, 2019). There are two contrasting conceptual models for MTD emplacement.…”

Carbonate slope re‐sedimentation in a tectonically‐active setting (Western Sicily Cretaceous Escarpment, Italy)

“…The facies classification used textural characteristics (Dunham, ; Embry & Klovan, ), constituents (Flügel, ), bed thickness (Table ; McKee & Weir, ), grain sizes (Table ; Blair & McPherson, ), grain sorting (Pettijohn et al ., ) and sedimentary structures (Cook & Mullins, ; Prior et al ., ). A genetic interpretation of the deposits was based on earlier studies focusing on similar carbonate depositional environments (Krause & Oldershaw, ; Mullins & Cook, ; Spence & Tucker, ; Hughes, ; Reijmer et al ., 2015b; Le Goff et al ., , ) and transport processes for MTDs and calciturbidites (Mulder & Alexander, ; Moscardelli & Wood, ).…”

Geological mapping reveals the role of Early Jurassic rift architecture in the dispersal of calciturbidites: New insights from the Central and Northern Apennines

“…The role of tectonics as trigger of platform-derived carbonate gravity flows is amply documented (Athmer et al, 2010;Eberli, 1987Eberli, , 1988Everts, 1991;Ferry, Grosheny, Backert, & Atrops, 2015;Hairabian, Borgomano, Masse, & Nardon, 2015;Jo, Eberli, & Grasmueck, 2015;Payros & Pujalte, 2008;Principaud et al, 2017;Quiquerez, Sarih, Allemand, & Garcia, 2013;Rusciadelli, 2005;Rusciadelli & Ricci, 2008;Yilmaz, 2006), as well as the control of eustasy on the composition and the volumes of calciturbidites and calcidebrites (Berra, 2007;Haak & Schlager, 1989;Reijmer, Palmieri, & Groen, 2012;Reijmer, Palmieri, Groen, & Floquet, 2015;Reijmer, Sprenger, Ten Kate, Schlager, & Krystyn, 1994;Reijmer, Kate, Sprenger, & Schlager, 1991;Rusciadelli et al, 2009). Palaeogeographic and palaeotectonic reconstructions of sedimentary basins on a regional scale, focussed on the distribution and analysis of calciclastics, are also common (Andresen, Reijmer, & Droxler, 2003;Eberli, 1988;El Kadiri et al, 2006;Haughton, 2001;Le Goff et al, 2019;Ruiz-Ortiz, 1983;Salé, Gennari, Lugli, Manzi, & Roveri, 2012;Santantonio, Scrocca, & Lipparini, 2013;Surlyk & Ineson, 1992). In contrast, an exercise in assessing the role played by submarine rift topography on the dispersal pattern of calciturbidites has never been attempted for the Jurassic of Central Italy, except for the pioneering work of Cosentino, Mariotti, and Parotto (1982).…”