DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.06.031
论文题名: Age refinement and basin evolution of the North Rifian Corridor (Morocco): No evidence for a marine connection during the Messinian Salinity Crisis
作者: Tulbure M.A. ; Capella W. ; Barhoun N. ; Flores J.A. ; Hilgen F.J. ; Krijgsman W. ; Kouwenhoven T. ; Sierro F.J. ; Yousfi M.Z.
刊名: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
ISSN: 0031-0182
出版年: 2017
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Biostratigraphy
; Mediterranean - Atlantic gateways
; Miocene
; Paleoenvironments
; Planktonic foraminifera
英文摘要: The connection between the Mediterranean and the open ocean during the Messinian and the Messinian salinity crisis (MSC) remains largely unsolved; however, such a connection is required to supply the salts required for the formation of the thick evaporite successions deposited during the MSC. A potential candidate for a Mediterranean-Atlantic connection is the northern branch of the Rifian Corridor through Morocco, but existing biostratigraphic constraints of unspecified late Tortonian - Messinian age are insufficient to test the hypothesis. We present new calcareous plankton biostratigraphic data, using among others an improved planktonic foraminiferal zonal scheme that is based on an assemblage- rather than on a typology-based taxonomic concept. The results of this study invariably reveal a late Tortonian age for the youngest open marine sediments in the individual Intramontane Basins in the central part of the North Rifian Corridor (NRC) and no marine sediments of Messinian age have been found. The high sedimentation rates and the observed shallowing in the top part of several NRC successions suggest that, although the marine connection through the NRC may have continued in the earliest Messinian, it was likely closed before ~. 7.0-7.2. Ma, i.e. well before the onset of the MSC. This closure is likely related to a phase of enhanced and localised uplift in the Rif foreland and excludes the North Rifian Corridor as the long-lasting marine connection between the Mediterranean and open ocean during most of the MSC. © 2017 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/68163
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作者单位: Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, 3584 CD Utrecht, The Netherlands; Université Hassan II Mohammedia, Faculty of Science Ben M'Sik, BP7955, Morocco; Department of Geology, University of Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain; ONHYM, 10050 Rabat, Morocco
Recommended Citation:
Tulbure M.A.,Capella W.,Barhoun N.,et al. Age refinement and basin evolution of the North Rifian Corridor (Morocco): No evidence for a marine connection during the Messinian Salinity Crisis[J]. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,2017-01-01