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Geologica Carpathica, 1999, vol. 50, no. 2
SEDIMENTARY, BIOLOGICAL AND ISOTOPIC RECORD OF EARLY APTIAN PALEOCLIMATIC EVENT IN THE PIENINY KLIPPEN BELT, SLOVAK WESTERN CARPATHIANS
Abstract
Orbital perturbations of Barremian/Aptian climate traceable by sedimentological, biological and chemical proxies have been studied in Mt. Rochovica (Western Carpathians, Pieniny Klippen Belt) sedimentary sequence. This pelagic carbonate sequence represents a record of sedimentation on a distal edge of the Paleoeuropean shelf. Pelagic carbonate deposition was influenced by clastic input from the elevated Czorsztyn Ridge (microbreccia of Tithonian/Berriasian limestones) and by fluxoturbidites derived from unknown carbonate buildups. Interruption of carbonate deposition by the terrigeneous Konhora Formation has been interpreted as a consequence of a humid event in the initial stage of the mid-Cretaceous Greenhouse climate. Three anoxia models (depositional, productivity and stagnant one) have been distinguished in the depositionary regime.
Pages:
169 - 191
Published online:
0. 0. 1999