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DOI | 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2008.06.003 |
Palaeoenvironments and palaeotectonics of the arid to hyperarid intracontinental latest Permian- late Triassic Solway basin (UK) | |
Brookfield, Michael E. | |
通讯作者 | Brookfield, Michael E. |
来源期刊 | SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY |
ISSN | 0037-0738 |
EISSN | 1879-0968 |
出版年 | 2008 |
卷号 | 210期号:1-2页码:27-47 |
英文摘要 | The late Permian to late Triassic sediments of the Solway Basin consist of an originally flat-lying, laterally persistent and consistent succession of mature, dominantly fine-grained red clastics laid down in part of a very large intracontinental basin. The complete absence of body or trace fossils or palaeosols indicates a very and (hyperarid) depositional environment for most of the sediments. At the base of the succession, thin regolith breccias and sandstones rest unconformably on basement and early Permian rift clastics. Overlying gypsiferous red silty mudstones, very fine sandstones and thick gypsum were deposited in either a playa lake or in a hypersaline estuary, and their margins. These pass upwards into thick-bedded, multi-storied, fine- to very fine-grained red quartzo-felspathic and sublithic arenites in which even medium sand is rare despite channels with clay pebbles up to 30 cm in diameter. Above, thick trough cross-bedded and parallel laminated fine-grained aeolian sandstones (deposited in extensive barchanoid dune complexes) pass up into very thick, multicoloured mudstones, and gypsum deposited in marginal marine or lacustrine sabkha environments. The latter pass up into marine Lower Jurassic shales and limestones. Thirteen non-marine clastic lithofacies are arranged into five main lithofacies associations whose facies architecture is reconstructed where possible by analysis of large exposures. The five associations can be compared with the desert pavement, and ephemeral stream, sabkha, saline lake and aeolian sand dune environments of the and to hyperarid areas of existing intracontinental basins such as Lake Eyre and Lake Chad. The accommodation space in such basins is controlled by gradual tectonic subsidence moderated by large fluctuations in shallow lake extent (caused by climatic change and local variation) and this promotes a large-scale layer-cake stratigraphy as exemplified in the Solway basin. Here, the dominant fine-grained mature sandstones above the local basal reg breccias suggest water-reworking of wind-transported sediment, as in the northern part of the Lake Chad basin. Growth faulting occurs in places in the Solway basin, caused by underlying evaporite movement, but these faults did not significantly affect pre-late Triassic sedimentation and did not expose pre-Permian units above the basal breccias. There is no evidence of post-early Permian rifting anywhere during deposition of the late Permian to middle Triassic British succession although the succession is often interpreted with a rift-basin model. The and to hyperarid palaeoclimate changed little during deposition of the Solway basin succession, in contrast to Lakes Eyre and Chad: and this is attributed to tectonic and palaeolatitude stability. Unlike the later Mesozoic- Cenozoic, only limited plate movements took place during the Triassic in western Europe, palaeolatitude changed little, and the Solway Basin remained in the northern latitudinal desert belt from early to mid-Triassic times. However, the influence of the early Triassic impoverished biota on environmental interpretations needs further study. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
英文关键词 | Triassic Permian Solway Basin Hyperarid Palaeoenvironments Palaeotectonics |
类型 | Review |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Taiwan |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000260369200003 |
WOS关键词 | SHERWOOD SANDSTONE GROUP ; EAST IRISH SEA ; ARCHITECTURAL-ELEMENT ANALYSIS ; CENTRAL AUSTRALIA ; LAKE EYRE ; EPHEMERAL STREAMS ; FLUVIAL DEPOSITS ; FLOOD DEPOSITS ; NW ENGLAND ; BRITISH-ISLES |
WOS类目 | Geology |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/159167 |
作者单位 | (1)Acad Sinica, Inst Earth Sci, Taipei 1159, Taiwan |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Brookfield, Michael E.. Palaeoenvironments and palaeotectonics of the arid to hyperarid intracontinental latest Permian- late Triassic Solway basin (UK)[J],2008,210(1-2):27-47. |
APA | Brookfield, Michael E..(2008).Palaeoenvironments and palaeotectonics of the arid to hyperarid intracontinental latest Permian- late Triassic Solway basin (UK).SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY,210(1-2),27-47. |
MLA | Brookfield, Michael E.."Palaeoenvironments and palaeotectonics of the arid to hyperarid intracontinental latest Permian- late Triassic Solway basin (UK)".SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY 210.1-2(2008):27-47. |
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