Evidence for Milankovitch periodicities in Cenomanian-Turonian lithologic and geochemical cycles, western interior U.S.A.

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 286-302

  Sageman, B B ^a   Rich, J ^a   Arthur, M A ^b   Birchfield, G E ^a   Dean, W E ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDDING COUPLET; CENOMANIAN; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; ORBITAL CYCLICITY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TURONIAN;

USA, WESTERN INTERIOR;

EID: 0030988308     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/D4268554-2B26-11D7-8648000102C1865D     Document Type: Article

References (80)

1. ARTHUR, M.A., AND DEAN, W.E., 1991, An holistic geochemical approach to cyclomania: examples from Cretaceous pelagic limestone sequences, in Einsele, G., Ricken, W., and Seilacher, A., eds., Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy: Berlin, Springer-Verlag, p. 126-166.
2. ARTHUR, M.A., AND SAGEMAN, B.B., 1994, Marine black shales: A review of depositional mechanisms and significance of ancient deposits: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 22, p. 499-551.
3. ARTHUR, M.A., DEAN, W.E., AND PRATT, L.M., 1988, Geochemical and climatic effects of increased marine organic carbon burial at the Cenomanian/Turonian boundary: Nature, v. 335, p. 714-717.
4. ARTHUR, M.A., DEAN, W.E., BOTTJER, D., AND SCHOLLE, P.A., 1984, Rhythmic bedding in Mesozoic-Cenozoic pelagic carbonate sequences: the primary and diagenetic origin of Milankovitch-like cycles, in Berger, A., Imbrie, J., Hays, J.D., Kukla, G., and Saltzman, B., eds., Milankovitch and Climate, Part I: Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Reidel, p. 191-222.
5. ARTHUR, M.A., DEAN, W.E., POLLASTRO, R., SCHOLLE, P.A., AND CLAYPOOL, G.E., 1985, A comparative geochemical study of two transgressive pelagic limestone units, Cretaceous Western Interior basin, U.S., in Pratt, L.M., Kauffman, E.G., and Zelt, F.B., eds., Fine-Grained Deposits and Biofacies of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway: Evidence of Cyclic Sedimentary Processes: SEPM, Field Trip Guidebook No. 4, p. 16-27.
6. BARRON, E.J., 1987, Global Cretaceous paleogeography: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 59, p. 207-214.
7. BARRON, E.J., AND WASHINGTON, W.M., 1982, Cretaceous climate: A comparison of atmospheric simulations with the geologic record: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 40, p. 103-133.
8. BARRON, E.J., ARTHUR, M.A., AND KAUFFMAN, E.G., 1985, Cretaceous rhythmic bedding sequences: A plausible link between orbital variations and climate: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 72, p. 327-340.
9. BERGER, A., 1978, Long-term variations of daily insolation and Quaternary climate change: Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, v. 35, p. 2362-2367.
10. BERGER, A., 1984, Accuracy and frequency stability of the Earth's orbital elements during the Quaternary, in Berger, A., Imbrie, J., Hays, J.D., Kukla, G., and Saltzman, B., eds., Milankovitch and Climate, Part 1: Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Reidel, p. 3-40.
11. BERGER, A., LOUTRE, M.F., AND DEHANT, V., 1989, Astronomical frequencies for pre-Quaternary palaeoclimate studies: Terra Nova, v. 1, p. 474-479.
12. BERGER, A., LOUTRE, M.F., AND LASKAR, J., 1992, Stability of the astronomical frequencies over the Earth's history for paleoclimate studies: Science, v. 255, p. 560-566.
13. BLYTT, A., 1883, Om vexellagning og dens mulige betydning for tidsregningen i geologien og laeren om arteres forandringer: Videnskabs.-Selskabs. Forhandlingen, Christiania, no. 9, 31 p.
14. COBBAN, W.A., 1984, Mid-Cretaceous ammonite zones, Western Interior, United States: Geological Society of Denmark, Bulletin, v. 33, p. 71-89.
15. COBBAN, W.A., 1985, Ammonite record from Bridge Creek Member of Greenhorn Limestone at Pueblo Reservoir State Recreation Area, Colorado, in Pratt, L.M., Kauffman, E.G., and Zelt, F.B., eds., Fine-Grained Deposits and Biofacies of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway: Evidence of Cyclic Sedimentary Processes: SEPM, Field Trip Guidebook No. 4, p. 135-138.
16. COBBAN, W.A., AND SCOTT, R.W., 1972, Stratigraphy and ammonite fauna of the Graneros Shale and Greenhorn Limestone near Pueblo, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 645, p. 1-108.
17. CROLL, J., 1875, Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Change in the Earth's Climate: London, 577 p.
18. DEAN, W.E., AND ARTHUR, M.A, 1994, The Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway Drilling Project, an overview (abstract): American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Program, v. 3, p. 134.
19. DEAN, W.E., ARTHUR, M.A., AND STOW, D.A.V., 1984, Origin and geochemistry of Cretaceous deep-sea black shales and multicolored claystones, with emphasis on Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 530, southern Angola basin, in Hay, W.W., Sibuet, J.C., et al., eds., Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Part 2: Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, p. 819-844.
20. DETTINGER, M.D., GHIL, M., STRONG, C.M., WEIBEL, W., AND YIOU, P., 1995, Software for singular spectrum analysis of noisy time scries: EOS (American Geophysical Union, Transactions), v. 76 (2), p. 12, 14, 21.
21. DUKE, W.L., 1985, Hummocky cross-stratification, tropical hurricanes, and intense winter storms: Sedimentology, v. 32, p. 167-194.
22. EICHER, D.L., AND DINER, R., 1985, Foraminifera as indicators of water mass in the Cretaceous Greenhorn Sea, Western Interior in Pratt, L.M., Kauffman, E.G., and Zelt, F.B., eds., Fine-Grained Deposits and Biofacies of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway: Evidence of Cyclic Sedimentary Processes: SEPM, Field Trip Guidebook No. 4, p. 60-71.
23. EICHER, D.L., AND DINER, R., 1989, Origin of the Cretaceous Bridge Creek cycles in the Western Interior, United States: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 74, p. 127-146.
24. EICHER, D.L., AND DINER, R., 1991, Environmental factors controlling Cretaceous limestone-marlstone rhythms, in Einsele, G., Ricken, W., and Seilacher, A., eds., Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy: Berlin, Springer-Verlag, p. 79-93.
25. ELDER, W.P., 1985, Biotic patterns across the Cenomanian-Turonian extinction boundary near Pueblo, Colorado, in Pratt, L.M., Kauffman, E.G., and Zelt, F.B., eds., Fine-Grained Deposits and Biofacies of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway: Evidence of Cyclic Sedimentary Processes: SEPM, Field Trip Guidebook No. 4, p. 157-169.
26. ELDER, W.P., AND KIRKLAND, J.I., 1985, Stratigraphy and depositional environments of the Bridge Creek Limestone Member of the Greenhorn Limestone at Rock Canyon Anticline near Pueblo, Colorado, in Pratt, L.M., Kauffman, E.G., and Zelt, F.B., eds., Fine-Grained Deposits and Biofacies of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway: Evidence of Cyclic Sedimentary Processes: SEPM, Field Trip Guidebook No. 4, p. 122-134.
27. ENGELMAN, E.E., JACKSON, L.L., AND NORTON, D.R., 1985, Determination of carbonate carbon in geological materials by coulometric titration: Chemical Geology, v. 53, p. 125-128.
28. FISCHER, A.G., 1980, Gilbert-bedding rhythms and geochronology, in Yochelson, E. I., ed., The Scientific Ideas of G.K. Gilbert: Geological Society of America, Special Paper 183, p. 93-104.
29. FISCHER, A.G., HERBERT, T., AND PREMOLI-SILVA, I., 1985, Carbonate bedding cycles in Cretaceous pelagic and hemipelagic sediments, in Pratt, L.M., Kauffman, E.G., and Zelt, F.B., eds., Fine-Grained Deposits and Biofacies of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway: Evidence of Cyclic Sedimentary Processes: SEPM, Field Trip Guidebook No. 4, p. 1-10.
30. GILBERT, G.K., 1895, Sedimentary measurement of geologic time: Geology, v. 3, p. 121-127.
31. GLANCY, T.J., JR., ARTHUR, M.A., BARRON, E.J., AND KAUFFMAN, E.G., 1993, A paleoclimate model for the North American Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) epicontinental sea, in Caldwell, W.G.E., and Kauffman, E.G., eds., Evolution of the Western Interior Basin: Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 39, p. 219-242.
32. GLANCY, T.J., JR., BARRON, E.J., AND ARTHUR, M.A., 1986, An initial study of the sensitivity of modelled Cretaceous climate to cyclical insolation forcing: Paleoceanography, v. 1, p. 523-537.
33. GRADSTEIN, F.M., AGTERBERG, F.P., OGG, J.G., HARDENBOL, J., VAN VEEN, P., THIERRY, J., AND HAUNG, Z., 1994, A Mesozoic time scale: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 99, p. 24,051-24,074.
34. GUSTASON, E.R., 1989, Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Middle Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) Dakota Formation, Southwestern Utah [unpublished Ph.D. thesis]: Boulder, Colorado, University of Colorado, 342 p.
35. HAQ, B.U., HARDENBOL, J., AND VAIL, P.R., 1987, Chronology of fluctuating sea levels since the Triassic (250 million years ago to present): Science, v. 235, p. 1159-1167.
36. HATTIN, D.E., 1971, Widespread, synchronously deposited, burrow-mottled limestone beds in the Greenhorn Limestone (Upper Cretaceous) of Kansas and southeastern Colorado: American Association Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 55, p. 412-431.
37. HAY, W.W., EICHER, D.L., AND DINER, R., 1993, Physical oceanography and water masses in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway, in Caldwell, W.G.E., and Kauffman, E.G., eds., Evolution of the Western Interior Basin: Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 39, p. 297-318.
38. HAYS, J.D., IMBRIE, J., AND SHACKLETON, N.J., 1976, Variations in the Earth's orbit: Pacemaker of the ice ages: Science, v. 194, p. 1121-1132.
39. HERBERT, T.D., AND FISCHER, A.G., 1986, Milankovitch climatic origin of mid-Cretaceous black shale rhythms in central Italy: Nature, v. 321, p. 739-743.
40. IMBRIE, J., AND IMBRIE, K.P., 1979, Ice Ages; Solving the Mystery: Short Hills, New Jersey, Enslow, 224 p.
41. JORDAN, T.E., 1981, Thrust loads and foreland basin evolution, Cretaceous, western United States: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 65, p. 2506-2520.
42. KAUFFMAN, E.G., 1977, Geological and biological overview: Western Interior Cretaceous Basin: Mountain Geologist, v. 13, p. 75-99.
43. KAUFFMAN, E.G., 1984, Paleobiogeography and evolutionary response dynamic in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway of North America, in Westermann, G.E.G., ed., Jurassic-Cretaceous Biochronology and Paleogeography of North America: Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 27, p. 273-306.
44. KAUFFMAN, E.G., 1988, Concepts and methods of high-resolution event stratigraphy: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 16, p. 605-654.
45. KAUFFMAN, E.G., 1995, Global change leading to biodiversity crisis in a greenhouse world: The Cenomanian-Turonian (Cretaceous) mass extinction, in Stanley, S.M, ed., Effects of Past Global Change on Life: National Academy Press, Studies in Geophysics, p. 47-71.
46. KAUFFMAN, E.G., SAGEMAN, B.B., ELDER, W.P., KIRKLAND, J.I., AND VILLAMIL, T., 1993, Cretaceous molluscan biostratigraphy and biogeography, Western Interior Basin, North America, in Caldwell, W.G.E., and Kauffman, E.G., eds, Evolution of the Western Interior Basin: Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 39, p. 397-434.
47. KENNEDY, W.J., AND COBBAN, W.A., 1991, Stratigraphy and interregional correlation of the Cenomanian-Turonian transition in the Western Interior of the United States near Pueblo, Colorado, a potential boundary stratotype for the base of the Turonian stage: Newsletters in Stratigraphy, v. 24 (1/2), p. 1-33.
48. KOMINZ, M.A., AND BOND, G.C., 1990, A new method of testing periodicity in cyclic sediments: application to the Newark Supergroup: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 98, p. 233-244.
49. LAFERRIERE, A.P., HATTIN, D.E., AND ARCHER, A.W., 1987, Effects of climate, tectonics and sea-level changes on rhythmic bedding patterns in the Niobrara Formation (Upper Cretaceous), U.S. Western Interior: Geology, v. 15, p. 233-236.
50. LUDVIGSON, G.A., WITZKE, B.J., GONZALEZ, L.A., HAMMOND, R.H., AND PLOCHER, O.W., 1994, Sedimentology and carbonate geochemistry of concretions from the Greenhorn Marine Cycle (Cenomanian-Turonian), eastern margin of the Western Interior Seaway, in Shurr, G.W., Ludvigson, G.A., and Hammond, R.H., eds., Perspectives on the Eastern Margin of the Cretaceous Western Interior Basin: Geological Society of America, Special Paper 287, p. 145-174.
51. OBRADOVICH, J., 1993, A Cretaceous time scale, in Caldwell, W.G.E., and Kauffman, E.G., eds., Evolution of the Western Interior Basin: Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 39, p. 379-396.
52. OBRADOVICH, J.D., AND COBBAN, W.A., 1975, A time-scale for the Late Cretaceous of the Western Interior of North America, in Caldwell, W.G.E., ed., The Cretaceous System in the Western Interior of North America: Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 13, p. 31-54.
53. OGLESBY, R.J., AND PARK, J., 1991, The effect of precessional insolation changes on Cretaceous climate and cyclic sedimentation: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 94, p. 14,793-14,816.
54. PARK, J., AND HERBERT, T.D., 1987, Hunting for paleoclimatic periodicities in a geologic time series with an uncertain time scale: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 92, p. 14,027-14,040.
55. PARK, J., AND OGLESBY, R.J., 1991, Milankovitch rhythms in the Cretaceous: A GCM modelling study: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palacoecology (Global and Planetary Change), v. 90, p. 329-355.
56. PARK, J., AND OGLESBY, R.J., 1994, The effect of orbital cycles on Late and Middle Cretaceous climate: a comparative general circulation model study, in de Boer, P.L., and Smith, D.G., eds., Orbital Forcing and Cyclic Sequences: International Association of Sedimentologists, Special Publication 19, p. 509-529.
57. PARK, J., D'HONDT, S.L., KING, J.W., AND GIBSON, C., 1993, Late Cretaceous precessional cycles in double time: A warm-Earth Milankovitch response: Science, v. 261, p. 1431-1434.
58. PRATT, L.M., 1984, Influence of paleoenvironmental factors on the preservation of organic matter in middle Cretaceous Greenhorn Formation near Pueblo, Colorado: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 68, p. 1146-1159.
59. PRATT, L.M., 1985, Isotopic studies of organic matter and carbonate in rocks of the Greenhorn marine cycles, in Pratt, L.M., Kauffman, E.G., and Zelt, F.B., eds., Fine-Grained Deposits and Biofacies of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway: Evidence of Cyclic Sedimentary Processes: SEPM, Field Trip Guidebook No. 4, p. 38-48.
60. PRATT, L.M., ARTHUR, M.A., DEAN, W.E., AND SCHOLLE, P.A., 1993, Paleoceanographic cycles and events during the Late Cretaceous in the Western Interior Seaway of North America, in Caldwell, W.G.E., and Kauffman, E.G., eds., Evolution of the Western Interior Basin: Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 39, p. 333-354.
61. PRATT, L.M., KAUFFMAN, E.G., AND ZELT, F.B., EDS., Fine-Grained Deposits and Biofacies of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway: Evidence of Cyclic Sedimentary Processes: SEPM, Field Trip Guidebook No. 4, 249 p.
62. RICKEN, W., 1993, Variation of sedimentation rates in rhythmically bedded sediments - distinction between depositional types, in Einsele, G., Ricken, W., and Seilacher, A., eds., Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy: Berlin, Springer-Verlag, p. 167-187.
63. RICKEN, W., 1994, Complex rhythmic sedimentation related to third-order sea-level variations: Upper Cretaceous, Western Interior Basin, USA, in de Boer, P.L., and Smith, D.G., eds., Orbital Forcing and Cyclic Sequences: International Association of Sedimentologists, Special Publication 19, p. 167-193.
64. R.O.C.C. GROUP (ARTHUR, M.A., BOTTJER, D.J., DEAN, W.E., FISCHER, A.C., HATTIN, D.E., KAUFFMAN, E.G., PRATT, L.M., AND SCHOLLE, P.A.), 1986, Rhythmic bedding in Upper Cretaceous pelagic carbonate sequences: Varying sedimentary response to climatic forcing. Geology, v. 14, p. 153-156.
65. SAGEMAN, B.B., 1991, High-resolution event stratigraphy, carbon geochemistry, and paleobiology of the upper Cenomanian Hartland Shale Member (Cretaceous), Greenhorn Formation, Western Interior, U.S. [unpublished Ph.D. thesis]: Boulder, Colorado, University of Colorado, 572 p.
66. SAGEMAN, B.B., AND ARTHUR, M.A., 1994, Early Turonian paleogeographic/ paleobathymetric map, Western Interior, U.S. in Caputo, M.V., Peterson, J.A., and Franczyk, K.J., eds., Mesozoic Systems of the Rocky Mountain Region, USA: SEPM, Rocky Mountain Section, p. 457-470.
67. SAGEMAN, B.B., RICH, J., ARTHUR, M.A., AND DEAN, W.E., 1993, Analysis of periodicity in bedding cycles of the Bridge Creek Limestone Member, Greenhorn Formation, Western Interior Basin (abstract): Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Program, p. A240.
68. SAVRDA, C.E., 1997, Ichnology of the Bridge Creek Limestone: Evidence for temporal and spatial variations in paleo-oxygenation in the Western Interior Seaway, in Arthur, M.A., and Dean, W.E., eds., Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of the Western Interior Seaway along the Kansas-Colorado-Utah Drilling Transect: SEPM, Special Publication, in press.
69. SAVRDA, C.E., AND BOTTJER, D.J., 1991, Oxygen-related biofacies in marine strata: an overview and update, in Tyson, R.V., and Pearson, T.H., eds., Modern and Ancient Continental Shelf Anoxia: Geological Society of London, Special Publication 58, p. 201-220.
70. SAVRDA, C.E., AND BOTTJER, D.J., 1994, Ichnofossils and ichnofabrics in rhythmically bedded pelagic/hemi-pelagic carbonates: recognition and evaluation of benthic redox and scour cycles, in de Boer, P.L., and Smith, D.G., eds., Orbital Forcing and Cyclic Sequences: International Association of Sedimentologists, Special Publication 19, p. 195-210.
71. 13C excursion, in Brooks, J., and Fleet, A.J., eds., Marine Petroleum Source Rocks: Geological Society of London, Special Publication 26, p. 371-399.
72. SCHWARZACHER, W., 1954, Die Grossrhythmik des Dachsteinkalkes von Lofer: Tschermaks Mineralogisches und Petrographische Mitteilungen, series 3, v. 4, 377 p.
73. SCHWARZACHER, W., AND FISCHER, A.G., 1982, Limestone-shale bedding and perturbations of the earth's orbit, in Einsele, G., and Seilacher, A., eds., Cyclic and Event Stratification: Berlin-Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, p. 72-95.
74. SCOTESE, C.R., 1991, Jurassic and Cretaceous plate reconstructions: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 87, p. 493-501.
75. SLINGERLAND, R., KUMP, L., ARTHUR, M., FAWCETT, P. SAGEMAN, B., AND BARRON, E., 1996, Estuarine circulation in the Turanian Western Interior Seaway of North America: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 108, pp. 941-952.
76. THOMSON, D.J., 1982, Spectrum estimation and harmonic analysis: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Proceedings, v. 70, p. 1055-1096.
77. THOMSON, D.J., 1990, Time series analysis of Holocene climate data: Royal Society [London], Philosophical Transactions, series A, v. 330, p. 601-616.
78. UPCHURCH, G.R., AND WOLFE, J.A., 1993, Cretaceous vegetation of the Western Interior and adjacent regions of North America, in Caldwell, W.G.E., and Kauffman, E.G., eds., Evolution of the Western Interior Basin: Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 39, p. 243-282.
79. WITZKE, B.J., AND LUDVIGSON, G.A., 1994, The Dakota Formation in Iowa and the type area, in Shurr, G.W., Ludvigson, G.A., and Hammond, R.H., eds., Perspectives on the Eastern Margin of the Cretaceous Western Interior Basin: Geological Society of America, Special Paper 287, p. 43-78.
80. YIOU, P., GHIL, M., JOUZEL, J., PAILLARD, D., AND VAUTARD, R., 1994, Nonlinear variability of the climatic system from singular and power spectra of Late Quaternary records: Climate Dynamics, v. 9, p. 371-389.