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Palcu DV, Patina IS, Șandric I, Lazarev S, Vasiliev I, Stoica M, Krijgsman W. Late Miocene megalake regressions in Eurasia. Sci Rep 2021; 11:11471. [PMID: 34075146 PMCID: PMC8169904 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-91001-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2020] [Accepted: 05/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
The largest megalake in the geological record formed in Eurasia during the late Miocene, when the epicontinental Paratethys Sea became tectonically-trapped and disconnected from the global ocean. The megalake was characterized by several episodes of hydrological instability and partial desiccation, but the chronology, magnitude and impacts of these paleoenvironmental crises are poorly known. Our integrated stratigraphic study shows that the main desiccation episodes occurred between 9.75 and 7.65 million years ago. We identify four major regressions that correlate with aridification events, vegetation changes and faunal turnovers in large parts of Europe. Our paleogeographic reconstructions reveal that the Paratethys was profoundly transformed during regression episodes, losing ~ 1/3 of the water volume and ~ 70% of its surface during the most extreme events. The remaining water was stored in a central salt-lake and peripheral desalinated basins while vast regions (up to 1.75 million km2) became emergent land, suitable for development of forest-steppe landscapes. The partial megalake desiccations match with climate, food-web and landscape changes throughout Eurasia, although the exact triggers and mechanisms remain to be resolved.
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- Dan Valentin Palcu
- Paleomagnetic Laboratory Fort Hoofddijk, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. .,Oceanographic Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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- Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
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- Paleomagnetic Laboratory Fort Hoofddijk, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Geology, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
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- Paleomagnetic Laboratory Fort Hoofddijk, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Yuan J, Yang Z, Deng C, Krijgsman W, Hu X, Li S, Shen Z, Qin H, An W, He H, Ding L, Guo Z, Zhu R. Rapid drift of the Tethyan Himalaya terrane before two-stage India-Asia collision. Natl Sci Rev 2020; 8:nwaa173. [PMID: 34691680 PMCID: PMC8310735 DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwaa173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2020] [Accepted: 07/26/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The India-Asia collision is an outstanding smoking gun in the study of continental collision dynamics. How and when the continental collision occurred remains a long-standing controversy. Here we present two new paleomagnetic data sets from rocks deposited on the distal part of the Indian passive margin, which indicate that the Tethyan Himalaya terrane was situated at a paleolatitude of ∼19.4°S at ∼75 Ma and moved rapidly northward to reach a paleolatitude of ∼13.7°N at ∼61 Ma. This implies that the Tethyan Himalaya terrane rifted from India after ∼75 Ma, generating the North India Sea. We document a new two-stage continental collision, first at ∼61 Ma between the Lhasa and Tethyan Himalaya terranes, and subsequently at ∼53−48 Ma between the Tethyan Himalaya terrane and India, diachronously closing the North India Sea from west to east. Our scenario matches the history of India-Asia convergence rates and reconciles multiple lines of geologic evidence for the collision.
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- Jie Yuan
- State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
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- College of Resources, Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht HD 3584, The Netherlands
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- State Key Laboratory of Mineral Deposits Research, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Mineral Deposits Research, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
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- College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Innovation Academy for Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
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Sant K, Palcu DV, Turco E, Di Stefano A, Baldassini N, Kouwenhoven T, Kuiper KF, Krijgsman W. Litho- and biostratigraphic data of lower-middle Miocene sections in the Transylvanian basin and SE Carpathian Foredeep (Romania). Data Brief 2019; 24:103904. [PMID: 31193225 PMCID: PMC6525294 DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.103904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2018] [Revised: 03/16/2019] [Accepted: 03/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Litho- and biostratigraphic data are provided of 5 stratigraphic sections in Romania covering the “Badenian” marine flooding that occurred in the Central Paratethys during the middle Miocene (Langhian). The dataset includes stratigraphic logs and descriptions of the profiles, and biostratigraphic analyses on calcareous nannofossils and foraminifera. In addition, characteristic stratigraphic features and representative fossils, including tiny Streptochilus foraminifera in the Campiniţa section in the SE Carpathian Foredeep, are presented in photographs. The data show that the flooding is characterized by the sudden abundance of Langhian calcareous nannofossils and foraminifera with a strong Mediterranean affinity.
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- K Sant
- Paleomagnetic Laboratory Fort Hoofddijk, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Paleomagnetic Laboratory Fort Hoofddijk, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Parma University, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Catania University, Catania, Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Catania University, Catania, Italy
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- Department of Geosciences, Stratigraphy-Paleontology, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 CS Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Paleomagnetic Laboratory Fort Hoofddijk, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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Capella W, Barhoun N, Flecker R, Hilgen F, Kouwenhoven T, Matenco L, Sierro F, Tulbure M, Yousfi M, Krijgsman W. Data on lithofacies, sedimentology and palaeontology of South Rifian Corridor sections (Morocco). Data Brief 2018; 19:712-736. [PMID: 30182039 PMCID: PMC6120058 DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.05.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2018] [Revised: 05/08/2018] [Accepted: 05/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We provide lithological, sedimentological and micropalaeontological descriptions of 39 sections and boreholes crossing the upper Miocene deposits of the Rifian Corridor. These deposits represent the sedimentary remnants of the marine gateway that connected the Atlantic to the Mediterranean in the late Miocene. Results from these 39 sites were adopted to reconstruct the palaeogeographic evolution of the gateway presented in the associated research article (Capella et al., 2018) [1]. For each outcrop we present a synthesis of field observations, lithofacies, key sedimentological features, planktic and benthic assemblages.
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- W. Capella
- Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, 3584CD Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Corresponding author.
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- Université Hassan II Mohammedia, Fac. Sci. Ben M'Sik, BP7955 Casablanca, Morocco
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- BRIDGE, School of Geographical Sciences and Cabot Institute, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, 3584CD Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, 3584CD Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, 3584CD Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Geology, University of Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, 3584CD Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, 3584CD Utrecht, the Netherlands
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Advokaat EL, Marshall NT, Li S, Spakman W, Krijgsman W, van Hinsbergen DJJ. Cenozoic Rotation History of Borneo and Sundaland, SE Asia Revealed by Paleomagnetism, Seismic Tomography, and Kinematic Reconstruction. Tectonics 2018; 37:2486-2512. [PMID: 30333679 PMCID: PMC6175333 DOI: 10.1029/2018tc005010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2018] [Revised: 06/27/2018] [Accepted: 06/29/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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SE Asia comprises a heterogeneous assemblage of fragments derived from Cathaysia (Eurasia) in the north and Gondwana in the south, separated by suture zones representing closed former ocean basins. The western part of the region comprises Sundaland, which was formed by Late Permian-Triassic amalgamation of continental and arc fragments now found in Indochina, the Thai Penisula, Peninsular Malaysia, and Sumatra. On Borneo, the Kuching Zone formed the eastern margin of Sundaland since the Triassic. To the SE of the Kuching Zone, the Gondwana-derived continental fragments of SW Borneo and East Kalimantan accreted in the Cretaceous. South China-derived fragments accreted to north of the Kuching Zone in the Miocene. Deciphering this complex geodynamic history of SE Asia requires restoration of its deformation history, but quantitative constraints are often sparse. Paleomagnetism may provide such constraints. Previous paleomagnetic studies demonstrated that Sundaland and fragments in Borneo underwent vertical axis rotations since the Cretaceous. We provide new paleomagnetic data from Eocene-Miocene sedimentary rocks in the Kutai Basin, east Borneo, and critically reevaluate the published database, omitting sites that do not pass widely used, up-to-date reliability criteria. We use the resulting database to develop an updated kinematic restoration. We test the regional or local nature of paleomagnetic rotations against fits between the restored orientation of the Sunda Trench and seismic tomography images of the associated slabs. Paleomagnetic data and mantle tomography of the Sunda slab indicate that Sundaland did not experience significant vertical axis rotations since the Late Jurassic. Paleomagnetic data show that Borneo underwent a ~35° counterclockwise rotation constrained to the Late Eocene and an additional ~10° counterclockwise rotation since the Early Miocene. How this rotation was accommodated relative to Sundaland is enigmatic but likely involved distributed extension in the West Java Sea between Borneo and Sumatra. This Late Eocene-Early Oligocene rotation is contemporaneous with and may have been driven by a marked change in motion of Australia relative to Eurasia, from eastward to northward, which also has led to the initiation of subduction along the eastern Sunda trench and the proto-South China Sea to the south and north of Borneo, respectively.
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- State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and GeophysicsChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
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- Department of Earth SciencesUtrecht UniversityUtrechtNetherlands
- Centre of Earth Evolution and DynamicsUniversity of OsloOsloNorway
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- Department of Earth SciencesUtrecht UniversityUtrechtNetherlands
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de Leeuw A, Mandic O, Krijgsman W, Kuiper K, Hrvatović H. Paleomagnetic and geochronologic constraints on the geodynamic evolution of the Central Dinarides. Tectonophysics 2012; 530-531:286-298. [PMID: 27065500 PMCID: PMC4802511 DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2011] [Revised: 12/19/2011] [Accepted: 01/02/2012] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The geodynamic evolution of the Dinaride Mountains of southeastern Europe is relatively poorly understood, especially in comparison with the neighboring Alps and Carpathians. Here, we construct a new chronostratigraphy for the post-orogenic intra-montane basins of the Central Dinarides based on paleomagnetic and 40Ar/39Ar age data. A first phase of basin formation occurred in the late Oligocene. A second phase of basin formation took place between 18 and 13 Ma, concurrent with profound extension in the neighboring Pannonian Basin. Our paleomagnetic results further indicate that the Dinarides have not experienced any significant tectonic rotation since the late Oligocene. This implies that the Dinarides were decoupled from the adjacent Adria and the Tisza-Dacia Mega-Units that both underwent major rotation during the Miocene. The Dinaride orogen must consequently have accommodated significant shortening. This is corroborated by our AMS data that indicate post-Middle Miocene shortening in the frontal zone, wrenching in the central part of the orogen, and compression in the hinterland. A review of paleomagnetic data from the Adria plate, which plays a major role in the evolution of the Dinarides as well as the Alps, constrains rotation since the Early Cretaceous to 48 ± 10° counterclockwise and indicates 20° of this rotation took place since the Miocene. It also shows that Adria behaved as an independent plate from the Late Jurassic to the Eocene. From the Eocene onwards, coupling between Adria and Africa was stronger than between Adria and Europe. Adria continued to behave as an independent plate. The amount of rotation within the Adria-Dinarides collision zone increases with age and proximity of the sampled sediments to undeformed Adria. These results significantly improve our insight in the post-orogenic evolution of the Dinarides and resolve an apparent controversy between structural geological and paleomagnetic rotation estimates for the Dinarides as well as Adria.
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- Arjan de Leeuw
- Paleomagnetic Laboratory ‘Fort Hoofddijk’, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Geology & Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum Vienna, Burgring 7, 1010 Wien, Austria
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- Paleomagnetic Laboratory ‘Fort Hoofddijk’, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Isotope Geochemistry, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Federal Institute for Geology, Sarajevo, Ustanička 11, 71210 Ilidža, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Mandic O, de Leeuw A, Vuković B, Krijgsman W, Harzhauser M, Kuiper KF. Palaeoenvironmental evolution of Lake Gacko (Southern Bosnia and Herzegovina): Impact of the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum on the Dinaride Lake System. Palaeogeogr Palaeoclimatol Palaeoecol 2011; 299:475-492. [PMID: 21317979 PMCID: PMC3026099 DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.11.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2010] [Revised: 11/23/2010] [Accepted: 11/25/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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In the Early to Middle Miocene, a series of lakes, collectively termed the Dinaride Lake System (DLS), spread out across the north-western part of the Dinaride-Anatolian continental block. Its deposits, preserved in numerous intra-montane basins, allow a glimpse into the palaeoenvironmental, palaeobiogeographic and geodynamic evolution of the region. Lake Gacko, situated in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina, is one of the constituent lakes of the DLS, and its deposits are excellently exposed in the Gračanica open-cast coal-mine. A detailed study of the sedimentary succession that addresses facies, sediment petrography, geophysical properties, and fossil mollusc palaeoecology reveals repetitive changes in lake level. These are interpreted to reflect changes in the regional water budget. First-order chronologic constraints arise from the integration of radio-isotopic and palaeomagnetic data. (40)Ar/(39)Ar measurements on feldspar crystals from a tephra bed in the upper part of the sedimentary succession indicate a 15.31 ± 0.16 Ma age for this level. The reversed magnetic polarity signal that characterises the larger part of the investigated section correlates to chron C5Br of the Astronomically Tuned Neogene Timescale. Guided by these chronologic data and a detailed cyclostratigraphic analysis, the observed variations in lake-level, evident as two ~ 40-m and seven ~ 10-m scale transgression-regression cycles, are tuned to ~ 400-kyr and ~ 100-kyr eccentricity cycles. From the tuning, it can be inferred that the sediments in the Gacko Basin accumulated between ~ 15.8 and ~ 15.2 Ma. The economically valuable lignite accumulations in the lower part of the succession are interpreted to indicate the development of swamp forests in conjunction with lake-level falls corresponding to ~ 100-kyr eccentricity minima. Pedogenesis, rhizoliths and palustrine carbonate breccias in the upper part of the section reveal long-term aridity coinciding with a ~ 400-kyr eccentricity minimum. Eccentricity maxima are interpreted to trigger lake-level high-stands. These are accompanied by eutrophication events caused by enhanced denudation of the surrounding basement and increased detrital input into the basin. The presented age model proves that Lake Gacko arose during the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum and that the optimum climatic conditions triggered the formation of this long-lived lake.
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- Oleg Mandic
- Department of Geology and Palaeontology, Natural History Museum Vienna, Burgring 7, 1010 Wien, Austria
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- Palaeomagnetic Laboratory ‘Fort Hoofddijk’, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Rudnik i Termoelektrana Gacko, Elektroprivreda Republike Srpske, Industrijska zona bb, 89240 Gacko, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Palaeomagnetic Laboratory ‘Fort Hoofddijk’, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Geology and Palaeontology, Natural History Museum Vienna, Burgring 7, 1010 Wien, Austria
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- Isotope Geochemistry, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Hüsing SK, Zachariasse WJ, van Hinsbergen DJJ, Krijgsman W, Inceöz M, Harzhauser M, Mandic O, Kroh A. Oligocene–Miocene basin evolution in SE Anatolia, Turkey: constraints on the closure of the eastern Tethys gateway. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1144/sp311.4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
Abstract
AbstractThe Oligocene–Miocene was a time characterized by major climate changes as well as changing plate configurations. The Middle Miocene Climate Transition (17 to 11 Ma) may even have been triggered by a plate tectonic event: the closure of the eastern Tethys gateway, the marine connection between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. To address this idea, we focus on the evolution of Oligocene and Miocene foreland basins in the southernmost part of Turkey, the most likely candidates to have formed this gateway. In addition, we take the geodynamic evolution of the Arabian–Eurasian collision into account.The Muş and Elazığ basins, located to the north of the Bitlis–Zagros suture zone, were most likely connected during the Oligocene. The deepening of both basins is biostratigraphically dated by us to occur during the Rupelian (Early Oligocene). Deep marine conditions (between 350 and 750 m) prevailed until the Chattian (Late Oligocene), when the basins shoaled rapidly to subtidal/intertidal environment in tropical to subtropical conditions, as indicated by the macrofossil assemblages. We conclude that the emergence of this basin during the Chattian severely restricted the marine connection between an eastern (Indian Ocean) and western (Mediterranean) marine domain. If a connection persisted it was likely located south of the Bitlis–Zagros suture zone. The Kahramanmaraş basin, located on the northern Arabian promontory south of the Bitlis–Zagros suture zone, was a foreland basin during the Middle and Late Miocene, possibly linked to the Hatay basin to the west and the Lice basin to the east. Our data indicates that this foreland basin experienced shallow marine conditions during the Langhian, followed by a rapid deepening during Langhian/Serravallian and prevailing deep marine conditions (between 350 and 750 m) until the early Tortonian. We have dated the youngest sediments underneath a subduction-related thrust at c. 11 Ma and suggest that this corresponds to the end of underthrusting in the Kahramanmaraş region, i.e. the end of subduction of Arabia. This age coincides in time with the onset of eastern Anatolian volcanism, uplift of the East Anatolian Accretionary Complex, and the onset of the North and East Anatolian Fault Zones accommodating westward escape tectonics of Anatolia. After c. 11 Ma, the foreland basin south of the Bitlis formed not (or no longer) a deep marine connection along the northern margin of Arabia between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean. We finally conclude that a causal link between gateway closure and global climate change to a cooler mode, recorded in the Mi3b event (δ18O increase) dated at 13.82 Ma, cannot be supported.
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- Silja K. Hüsing
- Paleomagnetic Laboratory “Fort Hoofddijk”, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Stratigraphy and Paleontology Group, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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- Paleomagnetic Laboratory “Fort Hoofddijk”, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Paleomagnetic Laboratory “Fort Hoofddijk”, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Geology, Fırat University, Elazığ, Turkey
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- K. F. Kuiper
- Faculty of Geosciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, Netherlands
- Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Institute of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
- Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Faculty of Geosciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, Netherlands
- Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Institute of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
- Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Faculty of Geosciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, Netherlands
- Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Institute of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
- Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Faculty of Geosciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, Netherlands
- Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Institute of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
- Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Faculty of Geosciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, Netherlands
- Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Institute of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
- Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Faculty of Geosciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, Netherlands
- Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Institute of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
- Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Dupont-Nivet G, Krijgsman W, Langereis CG, Abels HA, Dai S, Fang X. Tibetan plateau aridification linked to global cooling at the Eocene-Oligocene transition. Nature 2007; 445:635-8. [PMID: 17287807 DOI: 10.1038/nature05516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2006] [Accepted: 12/05/2006] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
Continental aridification and the intensification of the monsoons in Asia are generally attributed to uplift of the Tibetan plateau and to the land-sea redistributions associated with the continental collision of India and Asia, whereas some studies suggest that past changes in Asian environments are mainly governed by global climate. The most dramatic climate event since the onset of the collision of India and Asia is the Eocene-Oligocene transition, an abrupt cooling step associated with the onset of glaciation in Antarctica 34 million years ago. However, the influence of this global event on Asian environments is poorly understood. Here we use magnetostratigraphy and cyclostratigraphy to show that aridification, which is indicated by the disappearance of playa lake deposits in the northeastern Tibetan plateau, occurred precisely at the time of the Eocene-Oligocene transition. Our findings suggest that this global transition is linked to significant aridification and cooling in continental Asia recorded by palaeontological and palaeoenvironmental changes, and thus support the idea that global cooling is associated with the Eocene-Oligocene transition. We show that, with sufficient age control on the sedimentary records, global climate can be distinguished from tectonism and recognized as a major contributor to continental Asian environments.
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Affiliation(s)
- Guillaume Dupont-Nivet
- Paleomagnetic Laboratory Fort Hoofddijk, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 17, The Netherlands.
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Dai S, Fang X, Dupont-Nivet G, Song C, Gao J, Krijgsman W, Langereis C, Zhang W. Magnetostratigraphy of Cenozoic sediments from the Xining Basin: Tectonic implications for the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006. [DOI: 10.1029/2005jb004187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Shuang Dai
- Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems, Ministry of Education of China and College of Resources and Environment; Lanzhou University; Gansu China
- Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research; Chinese Academy of Science; Beijing China
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- Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems, Ministry of Education of China and College of Resources and Environment; Lanzhou University; Gansu China
- Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research; Chinese Academy of Science; Beijing China
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- Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems, Ministry of Education of China and College of Resources and Environment; Lanzhou University; Gansu China
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- Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems, Ministry of Education of China and College of Resources and Environment; Lanzhou University; Gansu China
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- Paleomagnetic Laboratory, Faculty of Science; Utrecht University; Utrecht Netherlands
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- Paleomagnetic Laboratory, Faculty of Science; Utrecht University; Utrecht Netherlands
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- Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems, Ministry of Education of China and College of Resources and Environment; Lanzhou University; Gansu China
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Krijgsman W, Griepink B, Mansveld JF, van Oort WJ. Eine einfache, halb-automatische Halogenbestimmung in kleineren Mengen organischer Substanz. Mikrochim Acta 2005. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01262914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Krijgsman W, de Groot G, van Bennckom WP, Griepink B. Die organische Elementaranalyse kleinster Substanzmengen mittels der Coulometrie. II. Mikrochim Acta 2005. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01219832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Abdul Aziz H, Krijgsman W, Hilgen FJ, Wilson DS, Calvo JP. An astronomical polarity timescale for the late middle Miocene based on cyclic continental sequences. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003. [DOI: 10.1029/2002jb001818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- H. Abdul Aziz
- Paleomagnetic Laboratory Fort Hoofddijk; Utrecht University; Utrecht Netherlands
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- Paleomagnetic Laboratory Fort Hoofddijk; Utrecht University; Utrecht Netherlands
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- Department of Geology, Institute of Earth Sciences; Utrecht University; Utrecht Netherlands
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- Department of Geological Sciences and Marine Science Institute; University of California; Santa Barbara California USA
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- Departamento de Petrología y Geoquímica, Facultad Ciencias Geológicas; Universidad Complutense; Madrid Spain
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Kruiver PP, Krijgsman W, Langereis CG, Dekkers MJ. Cyclostratigraphy and rock-magnetic investigation of the NRM signal in late Miocene palustrine-alluvial deposits of the Librilla section (SE Spain). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2002. [DOI: 10.1029/2001jb000945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Paleomagnetic Laboratory Fort Hoofddijk; Utrecht Netherlands
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- Paleomagnetic Laboratory Fort Hoofddijk; Utrecht Netherlands
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Backer E, Gerbrands J, Reiber J, Reijs A, Krijgsman W, Van Den Herik H. Modelling uncertainty in ESATS by classification inference. Pattern Recognit Lett 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/0167-8655(88)90051-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Krijgsman W, van de Kamp CG. Analysis of organophosphorus pesticides by capillary gas chromatography with flame photometric detection. J Chromatogr A 1976; 117:201-5. [PMID: 1249151 DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9673(00)81084-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Buijsman E, Krijgsman W, Oort WJ, Osch GWS, Hoekstra IW, Griepink B. Use of simple current-controlled coulometry in ultra-micro analysis. Anal Bioanal Chem 1974. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00445702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Krijgsman W, van Bennekom WP, Griepink B. Die organische Elementaranalyse kleinster Mengen Substanz mittels der Coulometrie. I. Mikrochim Acta 1972. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01229927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Krijgsman W, Mansveld JF, Griepink B. A simple and rapid semi-automatic micro method for the determination of chloride in serum and urine. Clin Chim Acta 1970; 29:575. [PMID: 5496577 DOI: 10.1016/0009-8981(70)90030-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Krijgsman W, Mansveld JF, Griepink B. Einfache automatische argentometrische Bestimmung von 40?1500 n�q Halogenidionen mit Hilfe einer ionenspezifischen Elektrode. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1970. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01141152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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