The Ombrina-Rospo Plateau (Apulian Platform): Evolution of a Carbonate Platform and its Margins during the Jurassic and Cretaceous

Santantonio, Massimo; Scrocca, Davide; Lipparini, Lorenzo

doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2012.11.008

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“…These faults are probably inherited from well-known Jurassic-Cretaceous extensional tectonics related to a phase of rifting affecting this part of the Tethys (Santantonio et al, 2012;Turco et al, 2012). In this work, aside from NWeSE oriented normal faults, the presence of NNW-SSE striking left-lateral and WNW-ESE striking right-lateral Upper Cretaceous strike-slip faults is also inferred.…”

Section: Fault-related Deformationmentioning

confidence: 64%

“…Activity of NWeSE oriented normal faults during Upper Cretaceous in the Murge area has been already documented (Luperto Sinni and Borgomano, 1989;Pieri and Laviano, 1989;Mindszenty et al, 1995;Iannone, 1996;Spalluto, 2011;Santantonio et al, 2012). These faults are probably inherited from well-known Jurassic-Cretaceous extensional tectonics related to a phase of rifting affecting this part of the Tethys (Santantonio et al, 2012;Turco et al, 2012).…”

Section: Fault-related Deformationmentioning

confidence: 87%

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Structural properties of fractured and faulted Cretaceous platform carbonates, Murge Plateau (southern Italy)

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Section: Fault-related Deformationmentioning

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Structural properties of fractured and faulted Cretaceous platform carbonates, Murge Plateau (southern Italy)

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“…A), in agreement with that documented on seismic lines by Santantonio et al . () in the near Adriatic offshore. The fact that limestones of the Casa Varfone Formation are dominantly dedolomites indicates that almost the whole formation (i.e.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Graziano, ), albeit that more prominent evidence of tectonically controlled margins of the Apulian Carbonate Platform has been documented northernmost, in the Adriatic offshore, on seismic lines by Santantonio et al . ().…”

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Fault‐controlled dolomite bodies as palaeotectonic indicators and geofluid reservoirs: New insights from Gargano Promontory outcrops

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The Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous platform-slope to basinal carbonate strata cropping out in Gargano Promontory (southern Italy) are partly dolomitized. Fieldwork and laboratory analyses (petrographic, petrophysical and geochemical) allowed the characterization of the dolomite bodies with respect to their distribution within the carbonate succession, their dimensions, geometries, textural variability, chemical stability, age, porosity, genetic mechanisms and relation with tectonics. The dolomite bodies range from metres to kilometres in size, are fault-related and fracture-related, and probably formed during the Early Cretaceous at <500 m burial depths and temperatures <50°C. The proposed dolomitization model relies on mobilization of Early Cretaceous seawater that flowed, downward and then upward, along faults and fractures and was modified in its isotopic composition moving through Triassic and Jurassic strata that underlie the studied dolomitized succession. Despite the numerous cases reported in literature, this study demonstrates that hydrothermal and/or high-temperature fluids are not necessarily required for fault-controlled dolomitization. Distribution and geometries of dolomite bodies can be used for palaeotectonic reconstructions, as they partly record the characteristics (size, attitude and kinematics) of the palaeo-faults, even if not preserved, that controlled dolomitization. In Gargano Promontory, dolomites record Early Cretaceous palaeo-faults from metres to kilometres long, striking north-west/south-east to east/west and characterized by normal to strike-slip kinematics. Dolomitization increases the matrix porosity by up to 7% and, therefore, can improve the geofluid storage capacity of tight, platform-slope to basinal limestones. The results have a great significance for characterization of geofluid (for example, hydrocarbons) reservoirs hosted in similar dolomitized carbonate successions. Distribution, size and shapes of reservoir rocks (i.e. dolomite bodies) could be broadly predictable if the characteristics of the palaeo-fault system present at the time of dolomitization are known. © 2017 The Authors. Sedimentology © 2017 International Association of Sedimentologist

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“…Although the understanding of carbonate slope systems has substantially improved in recent years, most current research (Lantzsch et al ., ; Verwer et al ., ; Van der Kooij et al ., ; Loucks et al ., ; Puga‐Bernabéu et al ., , ; Mulder et al ., ,b, ; Rankey & Doolittle, ; Santantonio et al ., ; Betzler et al ., ; Minzoni et al ., ; Reijmer et al ., ) has focused on accretionary margins and growth escarpment margins (according to the scheme proposed by Playton et al ., ), whereas carbonate deposition related to inherited escarpment margins remains relatively poorly understood. In addition, most known examples of carbonate accumulation on inherited escarpments are related to extensional fault scarps (Bosence et al ., ; Cross et al ., ; Brachert et al ., ; Drzewiecki & Simó, ; Bosence, ; Cross, ).…”

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Heterozoan carbonate deposition on a steep basement escarpment (Late Miocene, Almería, south‐east Spain)

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Heterozoan temperate‐water carbonates mixed with varying amounts of terrigenous grains and muddy matrix (Azagador limestone) accumulated on and at the toe of an inherited escarpment during the late Tortonian–early Messinian (late Miocene) at the western margin of the Almería–Níjar Basin in south‐east Spain. The escarpment was the eastern end of an uplifting antiform created by compressive folding of Triassic rocks of the Betic basement. Channelized coralline‐algal/bryozoan rudstone to coarse‐grained packstone, together with matrix‐supported conglomerate, are the dominant lithofacies in the higher outcrops, comprising the deposits on the slope. These sediments mainly fill small canyon‐shaped, half‐graben depressions formed by normal faults active before, during and after carbonate sedimentation. Roughly bedded and roughly laminated coralline‐algal/bryozoan rudstone to coarse‐grained packstone are the main lithofacies forming an apron of four small (kilometre‐scale) lobes at the toe of the south‐eastern side of the escarpment (Almería area). Channelized and roughly bedded coralline‐algal/bryozoan rudstone to coarse‐grained packstone, conglomerates, packstone and sandy silt accumulated in a small channel‐lobe system at the toe of the north‐eastern side of the escarpment (Las Balsas area). Carbonate particles and terrigenous grains were sourced from shallow‐water settings and displaced downslope by sediment density flows that preferentially followed the canyon‐shaped depressions. Roughly laminated rudstone to packstone formed by grain flows on the initially very steep slope, whereas the rest of the carbonate lithofacies were deposited by high‐density turbidite currents. The steep escarpment and related break‐in‐slope at the toe favoured hydraulic jumps and the subsequent deposition of coarse‐grained, low‐transport efficiency skeletal‐dominated sediment in the apron lobes. Accelerated uplift of the basement caused a relative sea‐level fall resulting in the formation of outer‐ramp carbonates on the apron lobes, which were in turn overlain by lower Messinian coral reefs. The Almería example is the first known ‘base of slope’ apron within temperate‐water carbonate systems.

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The Ombrina-Rospo Plateau (Apulian Platform): Evolution of a Carbonate Platform and its Margins during the Jurassic and Cretaceous

Cited by 66 publications

References 28 publications

Structural properties of fractured and faulted Cretaceous platform carbonates, Murge Plateau (southern Italy)

Structural properties of fractured and faulted Cretaceous platform carbonates, Murge Plateau (southern Italy)

Fault‐controlled dolomite bodies as palaeotectonic indicators and geofluid reservoirs: New insights from Gargano Promontory outcrops

Heterozoan carbonate deposition on a steep basement escarpment (Late Miocene, Almería, south‐east Spain)

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