Uppermost Devonian (Famennian) to Lower Mississippian events of the western U.S.: Stratigraphy, sedimentology, chemostratigraphy, and detrital zircon geochronology

Cole, Devon B.; Myrow, Paul M.; Fike, David A.; Hakim, Anne J.; Gehrels, George E.

doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.03.014

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“…Lower Mississippian strata of the Antler backbulge basin in the Great Basin of southwestern Utah (Joana Limestone) have provenance connections with both east-central Idaho and Nevada flysch successions and are characterized by recycled Archean and Paleoproterozoic detrital zircons (Fig. 9C) with only minor evidence of Ediacaran to early Paleozoic components (Cole et al, 2015).…”

Section: Mississippian Sediment Recycling In the Antler Foreland Basinmentioning

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Detrital zircon record of mid-Paleozoic convergent margin activity in the northern U.S. Rocky Mountains: Implications for the Antler orogeny and early evolution of the North American Cordillera

2016

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The passive to convergent margin transition along western Laurentia drove early development of the North American Cordillera and culminated with the Late Devonian-Mississippian Antler orogeny and emplacement of the Roberts Mountain allochthon in the western United States. New detrital zircon studies in the Pioneer Mountains, east-central Idaho, were conducted to investigate the stratigraphic evidence of this transition and test models for mid-Paleozoic tectonics and paleogeography. Ordovician to Lower Devonian passive margin strata of the Roberts Mountain allochthon and adjacent North American parautochthon contain ca. 1850, 1920, 2080, and 2700 Ma detrital zircons that indicate provenance from the Peace River Arch region of northwestern Laurentia. These detrital zircons are much older than the depositional ages of their host rocks and probably record long-term sediment recycling processes along the Cordilleran margin. Upper Devonian strata, including Frasnian turbidites of the Roberts Mountain allochthon, document the incursion of 450-430 Ma and 1650-930 Ma detrital zircons from an unknown source to the west. Detrital zircon Hf isotope results suggest that the western source was an early Paleozoic arc built on Proterozoic crust, with the Eastern Klamath, Northern Sierra, and Quesnellia terranes as likely candidates. Lower Mississippian syntectonic strata filled a rapidly subsiding, releasing bend basin that was associated with sinistral-oblique plate convergence and reworking of lower Paleozoic rocks in east-central Idaho. The available detrital zircon and stratigraphic data are most consistent with noncollisional models for the Antler orogeny, including scenarios that feature the north to south, time-transgressive juxtaposition of Baltican-and Caledonian-affinity terranes along the Cordilleran margin.

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Section: Mississippian Sediment Recycling In the Antler Foreland Basinmentioning

confidence: 99%

Detrital zircon record of mid-Paleozoic convergent margin activity in the northern U.S. Rocky Mountains: Implications for the Antler orogeny and early evolution of the North American Cordillera

2016

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“…The classic hemipelagic "Rhenish standard succession" of the Drewer section in the Rhenish Massif (Germany) exhibits the characteristic succession of the Hangenberg Crisis and was used to correlate different D-C sections from epicontinental basins and continental margins elsewhere (see summary by Kaiser et al 2016). Depending on facies setting, equivalents of the regressive Hangenberg Sandstone Event can also be recognised as an unconformity and/or reworked sediments as shown by Cole et al (2015), Bábek et al (2016) and Kaiser et al (2016). Stratigraphical gaps and non-deposition related to this major regression are also known from Eastern Iran (Bahrami et al 2011).…”

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Devonian-Carboniferous boundary sections in Iran

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Bahrami

Kaiser

2020

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Many sections are known from Iran which exhibit sediments across the Devonian-Carboniferous (D-C) boundary. In contrast to the majority of published D-C sections worldwide from pelagic/hemipelagic environments, successions in Iran are mainly composed of shallow-water sediments. Correlation with hemipelagic or pelagic palaeoenvironments remains difficult due to biostratigraphic uncertainties in most sections and/or hiatuses. On the other hand, a limited number of sections dealing with shallow-water facies settings in Iran at this particular time period are known and further research is necessary. Several sections in the Alborz Mountains provide an excellent opportunity to study successions across the D-C boundary in shallow-water facies. In Iran, protognathoids are represented by Protognathodus meischneri and Protognathodus collinsoni. The two biostratigraphically important protognathoids (Protognathodus kuehni and Protognathodus kockeli) were not reported or did not occur for the first time in the Late Tournaisian. Early siphonodellids were described instead. In the frame of an Iranian/German research project, we study different palaeoenvironments to reduce serious palaeoenvironmental and palaeogeographical sampling bias which may limit our knowledge on the Hangenberg Event particularly in shallow-water facies. We present a summary on published D-C sections in Iran (Ghale-Kalaghu, Howz-e-Dorah 1, Howz-e-Dorah 2 and Shahmirzad) and sections which are under study (Mighan, Chelcheli and Khoshyeilagh) at the time of this writing.

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“…7). Such values are more positive than those of underlying marginifera and trachytera Zone strata, and reflect the beginning of a long-term positive shift associated with late Famennian to Mississippian glaciation (Cole et al 2015). The Lower expansa Zone data are similar to those for the same age strata elsewhere (Myrow et al 2011).…”

Section: Interpretations: D 13 C Carbmentioning

confidence: 60%

“…Thus, sudden flooding events can initiate synchronous hatching of a vast population, which can be recorded in the fossil record as a bedding plane assemblage of organisms of similar size and maturity (Stigall and Hartman 2008). Cole et al (2015) interpret the strata of the lower Leatham Formation (LHU), lower to middle Pilot Shale (LMH), and lower Sappington Formation (SSM), which rest below our studied interval, to represent a full depositional sequence. These underlying Lower expansa Zone strata have a thin sandstone bed at the base and top, both of which mark sequence boundaries; the lower sequence boundary has a large diastem (missing postera Zone at LHU, and missing postera and trachytera Zones at LMH).…”

Section: Spinicaudatan and Other Associated Faunamentioning

confidence: 85%

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Passive Transgression: Remarkable Preservation and Spatial Distribution of Uppermost Devonian (Famennian) Marginal and Nearshore Marine Facies and Fauna of Western Laurentia

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Uppermost Devonian (Famennian) to Lower Mississippian events of the western U.S.: Stratigraphy, sedimentology, chemostratigraphy, and detrital zircon geochronology

Cited by 33 publications

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Detrital zircon record of mid-Paleozoic convergent margin activity in the northern U.S. Rocky Mountains: Implications for the Antler orogeny and early evolution of the North American Cordillera

Detrital zircon record of mid-Paleozoic convergent margin activity in the northern U.S. Rocky Mountains: Implications for the Antler orogeny and early evolution of the North American Cordillera

Devonian-Carboniferous boundary sections in Iran

Passive Transgression: Remarkable Preservation and Spatial Distribution of Uppermost Devonian (Famennian) Marginal and Nearshore Marine Facies and Fauna of Western Laurentia

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