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Brian T. Huber - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Paleogene PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERAL BIOZONATION FOR THE AUSTRAL REALM
2020Co-Authors: Brian T. Huber, Frédéric QuillévéréAbstract:The Antarctic Paleogene planktonic foraminifer zonation was revised by Huber and Quillevere (2005) using the most consistent and reliable planktonic foraminifer first and last occurrence events that can be correlated among southern high latitude sites. Shorthand prefixes for the Antarctic Paleogene zones have been created to include ‘AP' zones for the ‘Antarctic Paleocene', ‘AE' zones for the ‘Antarctic Eocene', and ‘AO' zones for the ‘Antarctic Oligocene'. In this chapter the zonal definitions, magnetostratigraphic calibration, and estimated ages are summarized for each of the Antarctic Eocene zones and Zone AP4.
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new age constraints for the salamanca formation and lower rio chico group in the western san jorge basin patagonia argentina implications for cretaceous Paleogene extinction recovery and land mammal age correlations
Geological Society of America Bulletin, 2014Co-Authors: William C Clyde, Peter Wilf, Ari Iglesias, Rudy Slingerland, Timothy Barnum, Peter K Bijl, Timothy J Bralower, Henk Brinkhuis, Emily E Comer, Brian T. HuberAbstract:The Salamanca Formation of the San Jorge Basin (Patagonia, Argentina) preserves critical records of Southern Hemisphere Paleocene biotas, but its age remains poorly resolved, with estimates ranging from Late Cretaceous to middle Paleocene. We report a multi-disciplinary geochronologic study of the Salamanca Formation and overlying Rio Chico Group in the western part of the basin. New constraints include (1) an 40Ar/39Ar age determination of 67.31 ± 0.55 Ma from a basalt flow underlying the Salamanca Formation, (2) micropaleontological results indicating an early Danian age for the base of the Salamanca Formation, (3) laser ablation HR-MC-ICP-MS (high resolution-multi collector-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry) U-Pb ages and a high-resolution TIMS (thermal ionization mass spectrometry) age of 61.984 ± 0.041(0.074)[0.100] Ma for zircons from volcanic ash beds in the Penas Coloradas Formation (Rio Chico Group), and (4) paleomagnetic results indicating that the Salamanca Formation in this area is entirely of normal polarity, with reversals occurring in the Rio Chico Group. Placing these new age constraints in the context of a sequence stratigraphic model for the basin, we correlate the Salamanca Formation in the study area to Chrons C29n and C28n, with the Banco Negro Inferior (BNI), a mature widespread fossiliferous paleosol unit at the top of the Salamanca Formation, corresponding to the top of Chron C28n. The diverse paleobotanical assemblages from this area are here assigned to C28n (64.67–63.49 Ma), ∼2–3 million years older than previously thought, adding to growing evidence for rapid Southern Hemisphere floral recovery after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction. Important Peligran and “Carodnia” zone vertebrate fossil assemblages from coastal BNI and Penas Coloradas exposures are likely older than previously thought and correlate to the early Torrejonian and early Tiffanian North American Land Mammal Ages, respectively.
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stratigraphy and sedimentology of the upper cretaceous to Paleogene kilwa group southern coastal tanzania
Journal of African Earth Sciences, 2006Co-Authors: Christopher J Nicholas, Paul R Bown, Brian T. Huber, Paul Nicholas Pearson, Tom Dunkley Jones, Amina Karega, Jackie A Lees, Ian Kenneth Mcmillan, Aoife Ohalloran, Joyce M SinganoAbstract:Abstract The geology of southern coastal Tanzania has remained poorly understood since the first comments on its stratigraphy were made over 100 years ago. However, new field surveys combined with shallow drilling along the coast between Kilwa and Lindi are beginning to resolve the depositional history and structural evolution of this region over the past 85 Ma. Here we present the first attempt to synthesize the results of these studies to provide a coherent sedimentological, litho- and sequence stratigraphic framework, including new geological maps, for the Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene of the coastal zone. Santonian to Oligocene sediments crop out along a broad coastal belt south of the Rufiji River from the Kilwa peninsula to Lindi Creek in southern Tanzania. During ∼55 Ma, over 1 km of a broadly homogeneous, mid to outer shelf clay-dominated succession was deposited across the passive margin, which we define here as the Kilwa Group. This lies disconformably across the shelf on Albian marls and is itself unconformably overlain by shallow water Miocene clays and more recent limestones, sands and gravels. Four formations can be identified within the Kilwa Group on the basis of characteristic secondary lithologies and facies, described here for the first time; the Nangurukuru, Kivinje, Masoko and Pande Formations. These formations include conformable stratigraphic intervals through both the Paleocene–Eocene and Eocene–Oligocene boundaries. Within the Kilwa Group, 12 sequence stratigraphic cycles can be identified at present, demonstrating relatively uniform and continual subsidence across the margin from Santonian to Early Oligocene time. A further major bounding surface is present between the Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene, but this may become partly conformable in the Lindi area. Although the principal lithology in all formations is clay or claystone, there are more permeable intervals containing pervasive coarser siliciclastic sediments and these have yielded traces of crude oil which is likely to have migrated from lower in the succession. The Kilwa Group thus also provides important new evidence for petroleum play development in the southern coastal zone.
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Revised Paleogene planktonic foraminiferal biozonation for the Austral Realm
Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 2005Co-Authors: Brian T. Huber, Frédéric QuillévéréAbstract:A major revision to the Antarctic Paleogene planktonic foraminifer biozonation is presented using the latest species concepts and biostratigraphic studies of Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) sites located between 52°S and 65°S paleolatitude in the southern South Atlantic and southern Indian Oceans. Shorthand prefixes for the Antarctic Paleogene zones are designated as “AP” zones for the “Antarctic Paleocene”, “AE” zones for the “Antarctic Eocene”, and “AO” zones for the “Antarctic Oligocene”. New numerical ages for Paleogene planktonic foraminiferal and calcareous nannofossil first- and last-occurrence events are estimated using new age-depth curves constructed for ODP Sites 738 and 744 in the southern Indian Ocean. The order and timing of these events are compared with bio-, magneto- and chemostratigraphic datums that have been recently published, reinterpreted, or observed in the present study. The revised zonal framework and age models will improve correlation of Paleogene planktonic foraminifer pelagic and hemipelagic carbonate sequences within and outside the Austral Realm.
Henk Brinkhuis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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new age constraints for the salamanca formation and lower rio chico group in the western san jorge basin patagonia argentina implications for cretaceous Paleogene extinction recovery and land mammal age correlations
Geological Society of America Bulletin, 2014Co-Authors: William C Clyde, Peter Wilf, Ari Iglesias, Rudy Slingerland, Timothy Barnum, Peter K Bijl, Timothy J Bralower, Henk Brinkhuis, Emily E Comer, Brian T. HuberAbstract:The Salamanca Formation of the San Jorge Basin (Patagonia, Argentina) preserves critical records of Southern Hemisphere Paleocene biotas, but its age remains poorly resolved, with estimates ranging from Late Cretaceous to middle Paleocene. We report a multi-disciplinary geochronologic study of the Salamanca Formation and overlying Rio Chico Group in the western part of the basin. New constraints include (1) an 40Ar/39Ar age determination of 67.31 ± 0.55 Ma from a basalt flow underlying the Salamanca Formation, (2) micropaleontological results indicating an early Danian age for the base of the Salamanca Formation, (3) laser ablation HR-MC-ICP-MS (high resolution-multi collector-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry) U-Pb ages and a high-resolution TIMS (thermal ionization mass spectrometry) age of 61.984 ± 0.041(0.074)[0.100] Ma for zircons from volcanic ash beds in the Penas Coloradas Formation (Rio Chico Group), and (4) paleomagnetic results indicating that the Salamanca Formation in this area is entirely of normal polarity, with reversals occurring in the Rio Chico Group. Placing these new age constraints in the context of a sequence stratigraphic model for the basin, we correlate the Salamanca Formation in the study area to Chrons C29n and C28n, with the Banco Negro Inferior (BNI), a mature widespread fossiliferous paleosol unit at the top of the Salamanca Formation, corresponding to the top of Chron C28n. The diverse paleobotanical assemblages from this area are here assigned to C28n (64.67–63.49 Ma), ∼2–3 million years older than previously thought, adding to growing evidence for rapid Southern Hemisphere floral recovery after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction. Important Peligran and “Carodnia” zone vertebrate fossil assemblages from coastal BNI and Penas Coloradas exposures are likely older than previously thought and correlate to the early Torrejonian and early Tiffanian North American Land Mammal Ages, respectively.
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cretaceous Paleogene floral turnover in patagonia drop in diversity low extinction and a classopollis spike
PLOS ONE, 2012Co-Authors: Viviana Barreda, Peter Wilf, Nestor Ruben Cuneo, Ellen D Currano, Roberto A Scasso, Henk BrinkhuisAbstract:Nearly all data regarding land-plant turnover across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary come from western North America, relatively close to the Chicxulub, Mexico impact site. Here, we present a palynological analysis of a section in Patagonia that shows a marked fall in diversity and abundance of nearly all plant groups across the K/Pg interval. Minimum diversity occurs during the earliest Danian, but only a few palynomorphs show true extinctions. The low extinction rate is similar to previous observations from New Zealand. The differing responses between the Southern and Northern hemispheres could be related to the attenuation of damage with increased distance from the impact site, to hemispheric differences in extinction severity, or to both effects. Legacy effects of the terminal Cretaceous event also provide a plausible, partial explanation for the fact that Paleocene and Eocene macrofloras from Patagonia are among the most diverse known globally. Also of great interest, earliest Danian assemblages are dominated by the gymnosperm palynomorphs Classopollis of the extinct Mesozoic conifer family Cheirolepidiaceae. The expansion of Classopollis after the boundary in Patagonia is another example of typically Mesozoic plant lineages surviving into the Cenozoic in southern Gondwanan areas, and this greatly supports previous hypotheses of high latitude southern regions as biodiversity refugia during the end-Cretaceous global crisis.
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from greenhouse to icehouse organic walled dinoflagellate cysts as paleoenvironmental indicators in the Paleogene
Earth-Science Reviews, 2005Co-Authors: Appy Sluijs, Jorg Pross, Henk BrinkhuisAbstract:Abstract Dinoflagellates are an important component of the extant eukaryotic plankton. Their organic-walled, hypnozygotic cysts (dinocysts) provide a rich, albeit incomplete, history of the group in ancient sediments. Building on pioneering studies of the late 1970s and 1980s, recent drilling in the Southern Ocean has provided a wealth of new dinocyst data spanning the entire Paleogene. Such multidisciplinary studies have been instrumental in refining existing and furnishing new concepts of Paleogene paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstructions by means of dinocysts. Because dinocysts notably exhibit high abundances in neritic settings, dinocyst-based environmental and paleoclimatic information is important and complementary to the data derived from typically more offshore groups as planktonic foraminifera, coccolithophorids, diatoms and radiolaria. By presenting case-studies from around the globe, this contribution provides a concise review of our present understanding of the paleoenvironmental significance of dinocysts in the Paleogene (65–25 Ma). Representing Earth's greenhouse–icehouse transition, this episode holds the key to the understanding of extreme transient climatic change. We discuss the potential of dinocysts for the reconstruction of Paleogene sea-surface productivity, temperature, salinity, stratification and paleo-oxygenation along with their application in sequence stratigraphy, oceanic circulation and general watermass reconstructions.
Charles Verdel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Paleogene extensional arc flare‐up in Iran
Tectonics, 2011Co-Authors: Charles Verdel, Brian P Wernicke, Jamshid Hassanzadeh, Bernhard GuestAbstract:Arc volcanism across Iran is dominated by a Paleogene pulse, despite protracted and presumably continuous subduction along the northern margin of the Neotethyan ocean for most of Mesozoic and Cenozoic time. New U-Pb and ^(40)Ar/^(39)Ar data from volcanic arcs in central and northern Iran constrain the duration of the pulse to ~17 Myr, roughly 10% of the total duration of arc magmatism. Late Paleocene-Eocene volcanic rocks erupted during this flare-up have major and trace element characteristics that are typical of continental arc magmatism, whereas the chemical composition of limited Oligocene basalts in the Urumieh-Dokhtar belt and the Alborz Mountains which were erupted after the flare-up ended are more consistent with derivation from the asthenosphere. Together with the recent recognition of Eocene metamorphic core complexes in central and east central Iran, stratigraphic evidence of Eocene subsidence, and descriptions of Paleogene normal faulting, these geochemical and geochronological data suggest that the late Paleocene-Eocene magmatic flare-up was extension related. We propose a tectonic model that attributes the flare-up to decompression melting of lithospheric mantle hydrated by slab-derived fluids, followed by Oligocene upwelling and melting of enriched mantle that was less extensively modified by hydrous fluids. We suggest that Paleogene magmatism and extension was driven by an episode of slab retreat or slab rollback following a Cretaceous period of flat slab subduction, analogous to the Laramide and post-Laramide evolution of the western United States.
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a Paleogene extensional arc flare up in iran
Tectonics, 2011Co-Authors: Charles Verdel, Brian P Wernicke, Jamshid Hassanzadeh, Bernhard GuestAbstract:Arc volcanism across Iran is dominated by a Paleogene pulse, despite protracted and presumably continuous subduction along the northern margin of the Neotethyan ocean for most of Mesozoic and Cenozoic time. New U-Pb and ^(40)Ar/^(39)Ar data from volcanic arcs in central and northern Iran constrain the duration of the pulse to ~17 Myr, roughly 10% of the total duration of arc magmatism. Late Paleocene-Eocene volcanic rocks erupted during this flare-up have major and trace element characteristics that are typical of continental arc magmatism, whereas the chemical composition of limited Oligocene basalts in the Urumieh-Dokhtar belt and the Alborz Mountains which were erupted after the flare-up ended are more consistent with derivation from the asthenosphere. Together with the recent recognition of Eocene metamorphic core complexes in central and east central Iran, stratigraphic evidence of Eocene subsidence, and descriptions of Paleogene normal faulting, these geochemical and geochronological data suggest that the late Paleocene-Eocene magmatic flare-up was extension related. We propose a tectonic model that attributes the flare-up to decompression melting of lithospheric mantle hydrated by slab-derived fluids, followed by Oligocene upwelling and melting of enriched mantle that was less extensively modified by hydrous fluids. We suggest that Paleogene magmatism and extension was driven by an episode of slab retreat or slab rollback following a Cretaceous period of flat slab subduction, analogous to the Laramide and post-Laramide evolution of the western United States.
Bernhard Guest - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Paleogene extensional arc flare‐up in Iran
Tectonics, 2011Co-Authors: Charles Verdel, Brian P Wernicke, Jamshid Hassanzadeh, Bernhard GuestAbstract:Arc volcanism across Iran is dominated by a Paleogene pulse, despite protracted and presumably continuous subduction along the northern margin of the Neotethyan ocean for most of Mesozoic and Cenozoic time. New U-Pb and ^(40)Ar/^(39)Ar data from volcanic arcs in central and northern Iran constrain the duration of the pulse to ~17 Myr, roughly 10% of the total duration of arc magmatism. Late Paleocene-Eocene volcanic rocks erupted during this flare-up have major and trace element characteristics that are typical of continental arc magmatism, whereas the chemical composition of limited Oligocene basalts in the Urumieh-Dokhtar belt and the Alborz Mountains which were erupted after the flare-up ended are more consistent with derivation from the asthenosphere. Together with the recent recognition of Eocene metamorphic core complexes in central and east central Iran, stratigraphic evidence of Eocene subsidence, and descriptions of Paleogene normal faulting, these geochemical and geochronological data suggest that the late Paleocene-Eocene magmatic flare-up was extension related. We propose a tectonic model that attributes the flare-up to decompression melting of lithospheric mantle hydrated by slab-derived fluids, followed by Oligocene upwelling and melting of enriched mantle that was less extensively modified by hydrous fluids. We suggest that Paleogene magmatism and extension was driven by an episode of slab retreat or slab rollback following a Cretaceous period of flat slab subduction, analogous to the Laramide and post-Laramide evolution of the western United States.
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a Paleogene extensional arc flare up in iran
Tectonics, 2011Co-Authors: Charles Verdel, Brian P Wernicke, Jamshid Hassanzadeh, Bernhard GuestAbstract:Arc volcanism across Iran is dominated by a Paleogene pulse, despite protracted and presumably continuous subduction along the northern margin of the Neotethyan ocean for most of Mesozoic and Cenozoic time. New U-Pb and ^(40)Ar/^(39)Ar data from volcanic arcs in central and northern Iran constrain the duration of the pulse to ~17 Myr, roughly 10% of the total duration of arc magmatism. Late Paleocene-Eocene volcanic rocks erupted during this flare-up have major and trace element characteristics that are typical of continental arc magmatism, whereas the chemical composition of limited Oligocene basalts in the Urumieh-Dokhtar belt and the Alborz Mountains which were erupted after the flare-up ended are more consistent with derivation from the asthenosphere. Together with the recent recognition of Eocene metamorphic core complexes in central and east central Iran, stratigraphic evidence of Eocene subsidence, and descriptions of Paleogene normal faulting, these geochemical and geochronological data suggest that the late Paleocene-Eocene magmatic flare-up was extension related. We propose a tectonic model that attributes the flare-up to decompression melting of lithospheric mantle hydrated by slab-derived fluids, followed by Oligocene upwelling and melting of enriched mantle that was less extensively modified by hydrous fluids. We suggest that Paleogene magmatism and extension was driven by an episode of slab retreat or slab rollback following a Cretaceous period of flat slab subduction, analogous to the Laramide and post-Laramide evolution of the western United States.
Paul L Koch - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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hot summers in the bighorn basin during the early Paleogene
Geology, 2013Co-Authors: Paul L Koch, Lisa C. Sloan, Kathryn E Snell, Bridget Thrasher, John M Eiler, Neil J TaborAbstract:During the early Paleogene, climate in continental interiors is thought to have been warmer and more equable than today, but estimates of seasonal temperature variations during this period are limited. Global and regional climate models of the Paleogene predict cooler temperatures for continental interiors than are implied by proxy data and predict a seasonal range of temperature that is similar to today. Here, we present a record of summer temperatures derived from carbonate clumped isotope thermometry of paleosol carbonates from Paleogene deposits in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming (United States). Our summer temperature estimates are ∼18 °C greater than mean annual temperature estimated from analysis of fossil leaves. When coupled, these two records yield a seasonal range of temperature similar to that in the region today, with winter temperatures that are near freezing. These data are consistent with our high-resolution climate model output for the Early Eocene in the Bighorn Basin. We suggest that temperatures in continental interiors during the early Paleogene greenhouse were warmer in all seasons, but not more equable than today. If generally true, this removes one of the long-standing paradoxes in our understanding of terrestrial climate dynamics under greenhouse conditions.
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stable isotope stratigraphy and paleoclimatology of the Paleogene bighorn basin wyoming usa
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 1995Co-Authors: Paul L Koch, James C Zachos, David L DettmanAbstract:Abstract Climatic warming from the late Paleocene into the early Eocene had profound effects on atmospheric and marine circulation, marine thermal gradients, and benthic biota. In addition, marine carbon isotope values decreased substantially in both surface and deep waters. Because carbon is rapidly exchanged between reservoirs at the earth's surface, such as marine surface water, the atmosphere, land plants, and materials that obtain carbon from plants (e.g., soil minerals and herbivores), carbon isotope fluctuations provide time lines linking the marine and continental records. We analyzed the carbon isotope composition of paleosol carbonates and mammalian tooth enamel from stratigraphic sections in northwestern Wyoming. Carbon isotope correlation demonstrates that a short interval of extreme high-latitude warming coincided precisely with the first appearance of several important modern mammalian orders. In addition, oxygen isotope analyses of fossils and paleosol carbonates provide information about climatic conditions on land in the Paleogene. We reconstructed the oxygen isotope composition of local meteoric water using biogenic minerals. Paleocene-Eocene meteoric water was significantly 18 O-depleted, indicating substantial loss of water vapor during its transport to the region. Soil temperature was calculated as a proxy for mean annual temperature, assuming oxygen isotope equilibrium between soil carbonate and meteoric water. Calculated temperatures were plausible (≈10–25°C), but highly variable, prohibiting high-resolution analysis of local temperature variations in response to global climatic warming.
