Upper Carboniferous to Lower Permian transgressive-regressive sequences of central Spitsbergen, Arctic Norway

Samuelsberg, Tommy J.; Pickard, Neil A. H.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-1034(199911/12)34:4<393::aid-gj831>3.0.co;2-g

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“…SB Sequence boundary; TS Transgressive surface. b Accumulation geometry of a carbonate platform under a decreasing relative sea-level rise during a late sea-level highstand (modiWed after Coe 2005) 123 second (Moscovian to Gzhelian) of altogether four major transgressive-regressive cycles Pickard et al 1996;Samuelsberg and Pickard 1999;Hüneke et al 2001) recorded in the Late Paleozoic superstratum of Svalbard and the Barents Sea.…”

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“…On the northern hemisphere, comparable successions have been studied within the North American Midcontinent by Boardman and Heckel (1989), West et al (1997) and Olszewski and Patzkowsky (2003), and in the Sverdrup Basin of the Canadian Arctic by Beauchamp (1994), Morin et al (1994) and Beauchamp and Desrochers (1997). Håkansson and Stemmerik (1989), Cecchi et al (1995), , Stemmerik and Worsley (1995), Stemmerik (1997) and Samuelsberg and Pickard (1999) presented similar features in the strata of the Wandel Sea Basin from northern Greenland and the Barents Sea. Information from the Russian Moscow Basin is delivered by Alekseev et al (1996), Kabanov (2003) and Baranova and Kabanov (2003).…”

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Facies arrangement and cyclostratigraphic architecture of a shallow-marine, warm-water carbonate platform: the Late Carboniferous Ny Friesland Platform in eastern Spitsbergen (Pyefjellet Beds, Wordiekammen Formation, Gipsdalen Group)

Blomeier

Scheibner

Forke

2008

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During the Late Carboniferous, a spacious warm-water carbonate platform developed across the eastern part of the present Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. The platform initiated in the Moscovian on an uplifted fault block (Ny Friesland High) and progradated during the Late Moscovian to Early Kasimovian into the adjacent Campbellryggen Basin (central Spitsbergen). The fossiliferous platform strata are characterized by a pronounced cyclicity formed by stacked parasequences, which consist of deWned, subtidal to supratidal facies-set successions reXecting a general shallowing of the depositional area. Up to 17 of these shallowing-upward cycles, bounded by distinct discontinuity (marine Xooding) surfaces due to the recurrent emersion and subsequent Xooding of the platform surface, have been recognized within the platform strata. The stacked cycles are the result of global, glacio-eustatic, highfrequent and high-amplitudinal sea-level Xuctuations with eccentricity periodicities caused by ice volume changes during the Gondwana Land glaciation. Based on systematic changes of the cycles (thickness and internal facies composition), the upper part of the platform strata is interpreted as a progradational parasequence set of a late highstand system tract.

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Facies arrangement and cyclostratigraphic architecture of a shallow-marine, warm-water carbonate platform: the Late Carboniferous Ny Friesland Platform in eastern Spitsbergen (Pyefjellet Beds, Wordiekammen Formation, Gipsdalen Group)

Blomeier

Scheibner

Forke

2008

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“…The Upper Paleozoic carbonate buildups of the Norwegian Barents Sea have been extensively examined with 3-D seismic data (Samuelsberg and Pickard, 1999;Elvebakk et al, 2002;Samuelsberg et al, 2003;Colpaert et al, 2007;Rafaelsen et al, 2008;Brocheray, 2010). Understanding of the stratigraphic evolution of these carbonate successions is therefore relatively mature.…”

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Morphometric patterns in Modern carbonate platforms can be applied to the ancient rock record: Similarities between Modern Alacranes Reef and Upper Palaeozoic platforms of the Barents Sea

Purkis

Casini

Hunt

et al. 2015

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“…All these features suggest the development of paleosols, which require a prolonged hiatus in sedimentation and a sufficient period of geomorphic stability. Carbonate breccias and low-relief, karstic exposure surfaces described from the uppermost part of the Gipshuken Formation in central Spitsbergen (Lauritzen 1981a;Samuelsberg and Pickard 1999;Groen 2010) and from NE Svalbard (MFT 6; this study) also reflect significant breaks in sedimentation.…”

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“…In connection with the possible potential as hydrocarbon reservoir, a number of publications involve the Late Paleozoic strata of Svalbard. Cecchi et al (1995), Samuelsberg and Pickard (1999) and Ehrenberg et al (2001) discuss sedimentary environments, the regional sequence stratigraphic arrangement and deliver a supraregional correlation with coeval lithostratigraphic units in the Barents Sea, Arctic Canada, and Russia.…”

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Environmental change in the Early Permian of NE Svalbard: from a warm-water carbonate platform (Gipshuken Formation) to a temperate, mixed siliciclastic-carbonate ramp (Kapp Starostin Formation)

Blomeier

Dustira

Forke

et al. 2010

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A detailed facies study of Early Permian strata within NE Svalbard reveals a fundamental change of the depositional setting, from a restricted-marine, warm-water carbonate platform to an open-marine, temperate-water, mixed siliciclastic-carbonate ramp. The uppermost strata of the Gipshuken Formation (Templet and Sørfonna members; Sakmarian-early Artinskian?) consist of microbialites (algal mats), mudstones, bioclastic/peloidal limestones, carbonate breccias and Microcodium facies reflecting peritidal platform areas and supratidal sabkhas. A mixed heterozoan/reduced photozoan assemblage indicates temperate-water conditions within neighboring deeper, openmarine mid-platform areas, while warm-water conditions still prevailed within inner platform zones. In contrast, the lowermost strata of the overlying Kapp Starostin Formation (Vøringen Member; late Artinskian?-Kungurian) show a fully heterozoan biotic assemblage reflecting temperate water conditions within open-marine, storm-dominated, nearshore to transitional offshore areas of a mixed carbonatesiliciclastic ramp. The Vøringen Member comprises three facies associations, which form a shallowing-upward sequence subsequent to an initial transgression. The sediments reflect bryozoan bioherms in most distal areas, followed by stacked tempestites of sandy brachiopodal shell banks and Skolithos piperocks, grading into broad sand flats in most proximal areas of the inner ramp. The above environmental change is regarded as a regional event taken place across the entire shelf along the northern margin of Pangea and is attributed to paleoclimatic, paleoceanographic, as well as paleogeographic changes, possibly related to the overall northwards drift of the supercontinent. An abrupt increase in terrigenous input coinciding with this change is ascribed to the uplift of a new local source area, probably to the north or east of the investigation area.

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Upper Carboniferous to Lower Permian transgressive-regressive sequences of central Spitsbergen, Arctic Norway

Cited by 20 publications

References 23 publications

Facies arrangement and cyclostratigraphic architecture of a shallow-marine, warm-water carbonate platform: the Late Carboniferous Ny Friesland Platform in eastern Spitsbergen (Pyefjellet Beds, Wordiekammen Formation, Gipsdalen Group)

Facies arrangement and cyclostratigraphic architecture of a shallow-marine, warm-water carbonate platform: the Late Carboniferous Ny Friesland Platform in eastern Spitsbergen (Pyefjellet Beds, Wordiekammen Formation, Gipsdalen Group)

Morphometric patterns in Modern carbonate platforms can be applied to the ancient rock record: Similarities between Modern Alacranes Reef and Upper Palaeozoic platforms of the Barents Sea

Environmental change in the Early Permian of NE Svalbard: from a warm-water carbonate platform (Gipshuken Formation) to a temperate, mixed siliciclastic-carbonate ramp (Kapp Starostin Formation)

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