The Quaternary eolian sequence of Madeira: stratigraphy, chronology, and paleoenvironmental interpretation

Goodfriend, Glenn A.; Cameron, R. A.; Cook, L. M.; Courty, Marie‐Agnès; Fédoroff, N.; Livett, Elizabeth A.; Tallis, John

doi:10.1016/0031-0182(95)00045-3

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“…It has been speculated that the laurel forest once formed a continuous band running the length of Tenerife (Nascimento et al ., 2009) and, given that laurel forest is known to have extended to the coast on Madeira before the arrival of humans (Goodfriend et al ., 1996), this seems a reasonable theory. The evidence of members of the genus Plutonia in coastal areas may be the first to support that hypothesis.…”

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“…Terrestrial gastropods are commonly found (Yanes et al ., 2008); however, their preservation on volcanic islands is generally poor due to the rarity of suitable calcareous sediments (Preece, 1998). A few notable exceptions include the aeolian deposits on Madeira (Cook et al , 1990; Goodfriend et al , 1996) and on Kaua'I and Midway in the Hawaiian archipelago (Solem, 1977; Burney et al , 2001). Tenerife (28.3° N, 16.6° W), the second largest island in the Canary group, developed as a basaltic edifice in the Miocene approximately 12 Ma (Brown et al ., 2003).…”

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Pleistocene forest on Tenerife's southern coast: a case study of Montaña Negra

Pannell

Gray

Zalasiewicz

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J Quaternary Science

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Montañ a Negra is a 121 m cinder cone in the Bandas del Sur region of southern Tenerife. Formed in the Middle Pleistocene, it comprises alternating phonolitic pumice deposits and scoria layers; the latter are extremely fossiliferous with good taphonomical fidelity. 40 Ar/ 39 Ar age determination provides new dates of 302 AE 7.6 ka and 299.9 AE 11.4 ka for the Lower and Upper Aldea Blanca pumice fall deposits, respectively. This chronological constraint allows comparison of the palaeo-habitat with the global climate at the time of pyroclastic activity. Abundant terrestrial gastropod species and rare disarticulated Coleoptera fragments are to be found. The occurrence of the endemic semi-slug genus Plutonia (Family Vitrinidae) is significant in indicating a woodland habitat in the region during the Middle Pleistocene. We suggest that this may have been forest, possibly dominated by laurel, which is in stark contrast to the present-day semi-desert.

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Pleistocene forest on Tenerife's southern coast: a case study of Montaña Negra

Pannell

Gray

Zalasiewicz

et al. 2011

J Quaternary Science

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“…U-Th) are useful to constrain the real age of soil carbonates. Thus, Goodfriend et al (1996) employed U-Th analyses to determine the age of the older part of the Quaternary eolian sequence of Madeira (Pleistone), while most of the upper part of this sequence was based on radiocarbon analysis of soil carbonates. Moreover, U-Th dating must take into account that the calcrete is an impure mixture of pedogenic carbonate and incorporated detrital minerals that can provide significant amounts of detrital Th which is necessary to correct (Kelly et al, 2000).…”

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Calcrete development in mediterranean colluvial carbonate systems from SE Spain

Jiménez-Espinosa

Jiménez-Millán

2003

Journal of Arid Environments

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“…A compilation of such biogenic structures is given among others in the textbooks of Donovan (1994), Bromley (1996), and Brenchley and Harper (1998). A great deal of these studies has been focused on pedologic and biological aspects, including rhizolith morphology (Goodfriend et al, 1996;Terry, 2001).…”

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An Overview of Younger Kathmandu Lake, Nepal, during the Late Quaternary, with Special Reference to Ferruginous Structures in Carbonaceous Sediments

Dill

2006

International Geology Review

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The Kathmandu Basin in Central Nepal is located in the Lesser Himalayas. Older Kathmandu Lake evolved during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene; Younger Kathmandu Lake with its widespread carbonaceous rocks and ferruginous biogenic structures silted up during the Late Quaternary. Sedimentological analyses supplemented with palynological and chemical studies of carbonaceous sediments formed the basis of the present paleogeographic and paleoclimatic studies. The basin was covered by a perennial freshwater lake before 30,000 yr. B.P. It was silted up with alluvial and fluvial sediments. Diatomaceous earths, and carbonaceous mud-and siltstones were deposited in the center of the lake and small relict ponds. Toward the basin edge, lacustrine sediments gave way to deltaic deposits spread across the delta plain. The most proximal parts of this alluvial-fluvial sedimentary wedge also have debris flows interfingering with fine-grained floodplain deposits. Three lake highstands (> 30,000 yr. B.P., 28,000-19,000 yr. B.P., 11,000-4000 yr. B.P.(?)) have been recognized in the sedimentary record of Younger Kathmandu Lake. Second-order waterlevel fluctuations were triggered by damming as a result of tectonically induced landslides. Firstorder water-level fluctuations were due to climatic changes. During the last highstand, favorable conditions occurred for vertical to subvertical tubular ferricretes to develop. The tubular structures are likely to have been created by bottom dwellers. Three different types of mineralization have evolved during diagenesis, each of which is characterized by different Fe-bearing marker minerals. The overall silting-up process in Kathmandu Basin is manifested on a microscopic scale in the textural and mineralogical variations of Fe mineralization in these biogenic sedimentary structures.

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The Quaternary eolian sequence of Madeira: stratigraphy, chronology, and paleoenvironmental interpretation

Cited by 36 publications

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Pleistocene forest on Tenerife's southern coast: a case study of Montaña Negra

Pleistocene forest on Tenerife's southern coast: a case study of Montaña Negra

Calcrete development in mediterranean colluvial carbonate systems from SE Spain

An Overview of Younger Kathmandu Lake, Nepal, during the Late Quaternary, with Special Reference to Ferruginous Structures in Carbonaceous Sediments

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