Palaeoceanographic controls on reef deposition: The Messinian Cariatiz reef (Sorbas Basin, Almería, SE Spain)

Sedimentology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 637-660

  Sanchez almazo I M ^a,b   Braga, J C ^a,b   Dinares turell J ^c   Martin J M ^a   Spiro, B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b Centro Andaluz de Medio Ambiente   (Spain)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Messinian; Palaeoceanography; Planktic foraminifera; Reef carbonates; Sorbas Basin; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CORAL REEF; DEPOSITION; MESSINIAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PELAGIC DEPOSIT; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PROGRADATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SLOPE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ALMERIA [ANDALUCIA]; ANDALUCIA; BETIC CORDILLERA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SORBAS BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ANTHOZOA; FORAMINIFERA; HALIMEDA; PORITES;

EID: 34249084931     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2006.00853.x     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Aguirre, J. and Sánchez-Almazo, I.M. (2004) The Messinian post-evaporitic deposits of the Gafares area (Almería-Níjar basin, SE Spain). A new view of the 'Lago-Mare' facies. Sed. Geol., 168, 71-95.
2. Bé, A.W.H. (1977) An ecological, zoogeographic and taxonomic review of recent planktonic foraminifera. In: Oceanic Micropaleontology (Ed. A.T.S. Ramsay), Vol. 1, pp. 1-101. Academic Press, London.
3. Bé, A.W.H. and Tolderlund, D.S. (1971) Distribution and ecology of living planktonic foraminifera in surface waters of Atlantic and Indian Oceans. In: The Micropaleontology of Oceans (Eds B.M. Funnel and W.R. Riedel), pp. 105-149. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
4. Bemis, B.E., Spero, H.J., Lea, D.W. and Bijma, J. (2002) Temperature influence on the carbon isotopic composition of Globigerina bulloides and Orbulina universa (planktonic foraminifera). Mar. Micropaleontol., 38, 213-228.
5. Benson, R.H., Rakic-El Bied, K. and Bonaduce, G. (1991) An important current reversal (influx) in the Rifian Corridor (Morocco) at the Tortonian-Messinian boundary: The end of the Thethys Ocean. Paleoceanography, 6, 164-192.
6. Blanc-Valleron, M.M., Pierre, C., Caulet, J.P., Caruso, A., Rouchy, J.M., Cespuglio, G., Sprovieri, R., Pestrea, S. and Di Stefano, E. (2002) Sedimentary, stable isotope and micropaleontological records of paleoceanographic change in the Messinian Tripoli Formation (Sicily, Italy). Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol., 185, 255-286.
7. Braga, J.C. and Martín, J.M. (1996) Geometries of reef advance in response to relative sea-level changes in a Messinian (uppermost Miocene) fringing reef (Cariatiz reef, Sorbas Basin, SE Spain). Sed. Geol., 107, 61-81.
8. Braga, J.C., Martín, J.M. and Riding, R. (1996) Internal structure of segment reefs: Halimeda algal mounds in the Mediterranean Miocene. Geology, 24, 35-38.
9. Braga, J.C., Martín, J.M. and Quesada, C. (2003) Patterns and average rates of late Neogene-Recent uplift of the Betic Cordillera, SE Spain. Geomorphology, 50, 3-26.
10. Broecker, W.S. and Peng, T.H. (1982) Tracers in the Sea. Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. Columbia University, Palisades, New York, 690 pp.
11. Cande, S.C. and Kent, D.V. (1992) A new geomagnetic polarity time scale for the late Cretaceous and Cenozoic. J. Geophys. Res., 97, 13917-13951.
12. Cande, S.C. and Kent, D.V. (1995) Revised calibration of the geomagnetic polarity timescale for the late Cretaceous and Cenozoic. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 6093-6095.
13. Dabrio, C.J., Esteban, M. and Martín, J.M. (1981) The coral reef of Níjar, Messinian (Uppermost Miocene), Almería province, S.E. Spain. J. Sed. Petrol., 51, 521-539.
14. Esteban, M., Braga, J.C., Martín, J.M. and Santisteban, C. (1996) Western Mediterranean reef complex. In: Models for Carbonate Stratigraphy from Miocene Reef Complexes of Mediterranean Regions (Eds E.K. Franseen, M. Esteban, W.C. Ward and J.M. Rouchy), SEPM Conc. Sed. Paleontol., 5, 55-72.
15. Gautier, F., Clauzon, G., Suc, J.P., Cravatte, J. and Violanti, D. (1994) Age et durée de la crise de la salinitémessinienne. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 318, 1103-1109.
16. Glaçon, G., Grazzini, C.V., Iaccarino, S., Rehault, J.P., Randrianasolo, A., Sierro, J.F., Weaver, P., Channell, J., Torii, M. and Hawthorne, T. (1990) Planktonic foraminiferal events and stable isotope records in the Upper Miocene, Site 654. Proc. ODP Sci. Res., 107, 415-427.
17. Haughton, P.D.W. (1994) Deposits of deflected and ponded turbidity currents, Sorbas Basin, southeast Spain. J. Sed. Res., 64, 233-246.
18. Hemleben, C., Spindler, M. and Anderson, O.R. (1989) Modern Planktonic Foraminifera. Springer-Verlag, New York, 337 pp.
19. Hilgen, F.J. and Krijgsman, W. (1999) Cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology of the Tripoli diatomite Formation (pre-evaporite Messinian, Sicily, Italy). Terra Nova, 11, 16-22.
20. Hodell, D.A., Curtis, J.H., Sierro, F.J. and Raymo, M.E. (2001) Correlation of the late Miocene to early Pliocene sequences between the Mediterranean and North Atlantic. Paleoceanography, 16, 164-178.
21. Kouwenhoven, T.J., Hilgen, F.J. and der Zwaan, G.J. (2003) Late Tortonian-early Messinian stepwise disruption of the Mediterranean-Atlantic connections: Constraints from benthic foraminiferal and geochemical data. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol., 198, 303-319.
22. Krijgsman, W., Hilgen, F.J., Raffi, I., Sierro, F.J. and Wilson, D.S. (1999a) Chronology, causes and progression of the Messinian salinity crisis. Nature, 400, 652-655.
23. Krijgsman, W., Langereis, C.G., Zachariasse, W.J., Boccaletti, M., Moratti, G., Gelati, R., Iaccarino, S., Papani, G. and Villa, G. (1999b) Late Neogene evolution of the Taza-Guercif Basin (Rifian Corridor, Morocco) and implications for the Messinian salinity crisis. Mar. Geol., 153, 147-160.
24. Krijgsman, W., Fortuin, A.R., Hilgen, F.J. and Sierro, F.J. (2001) Astrochronology for the Messinian Sorbas basin (SE Spain) and orbital (precessional) forcing for evaporite cyclicity. Sed. Geol., 140, 43-60.
25. Martín, J.M. and Braga, J.C. (1994) Messinian events in the Sorbas Basin in southeastern Spain and their implications in the recent history of the Mediterranean. Sed. Geol., 90, 257-268.
26. Martín, J.M. and Braga, J.C. (1996) Tectonic signals in the Messinian stratigraphy of the Sorbas basin (Almería, SE Spain). In: Tertiary Basins of Spain. The Stratigraphic Record of Crustal Kinematics (Eds P.F. Friend and C.J. Dabrio), World Regional Geol. Ser., 6, 387-391. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
27. Martín, J.M., Braga, J.C. and Riding, R. (1993) Siliciclastic stromatolites and thrombolites, Late Miocene, S.E. Spain. J. Sed. Petrol., 63, 131-139.
28. Martín, J.M., Braga, J.C. and Riding, R. (1997) Late Miocene Halimeda alga-microbial segment reefs in the marginal Mediterranean Sorbas Basin, Spain. Sedimentology, 44, 441-456.
29. Martín, J.M., Braga, J.C. and Sánchez-Almazo, I. (1999) The Messinian record of the outcropping marginal Alboran Basin deposits: significance and implications. Proc. ODP Sci. Res., 161, 543-551.
30. Martín, J.M., Braga, J.C. and Betzler, C. (2001) The Messinian Guadalhorce corridor: The last northern, Atlantic-Mediterranean gateway. Terra Nova, 13, 418-424.
31. Martín-Suárez, E., Freudenthal, M., Krijgsman, W. and Fortuin, A.R. (2000) On the age of the continental deposits of the Zorreras Member (Sorbas Basin, SE Spain). Geobios, 33, 505-512.
32. Martínez-Ruíz, F., Comas, M.C. and Alonso, B. (1999) Mineral associations and geochemical indicators in upper Miocene to Pleistocene sediments in the Alboran Basin. Proc. ODP Sci. Res., 161, 21-36.
33. Pomar, L. (1991) Reef geometries, erosion surfaces and high frequency sea-level changes, Upper Miocene Reef Complex, Mallorca, Spain. Sedimentology, 38, 243-269.
34. Pujol, C. and Vergnaud-Grazzini, C. (1995) Distribution patterns of live planktic foraminifers as related to regional hydrology and productive systems of the Mediterranean Sea. Mar. Micropaleontol., 25, 187-217.
35. Riding, R., Martín, J.M. and Braga, J.C. (1991) Coral-stromatolite reef framework, Upper Miocene, Almería, Spain. Sedimentology, 38, 799-818.
36. Riding, R., Martín, J.M., Braga, J.C. and Sánchez-Almazo, I.M. (1998) Mediterranean Messinian Salinity Crisis: Contraints from a coeval marginal basin, Sorbas, southeastern Spain. Mar. Geol., 146, 1-20.
37. Riding, R., Braga, J.C. and Martín, J.M. (1999) Late Miocene Mediterranean desiccation: Topography and significance of the 'Salinity Crisis' erosion surface on-land in southeast Spain. Sediment. Geol., 123, 1-7.
38. Riding, R., Braga, J.C. and Martín, J.M. (2000) Late Miocene Mediterranean desiccation: Topography and significance of the 'Salinity Crisis' erosion surface on-land in southeast Spain: Reply. Sediment. Geol., 133, 175-184.
39. Romanek, C.S., Grossman, E.L. and Morse, J.W. (1992) Carbon isotopic fractionation in synthetic aragonite and calcite - effects of temperature and precipitation rate. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 56, 419-430.
40. Ruegg, G.J.H. (1964) Geologische onderzoe-kingen in het bekken van Sorbas, S Spanje. Geological Institut, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdanm, Holland, 64 pp.
41. Saint Martin, J.P., Pestrea, S. and Conesa, G. (2001) Messinian diatom assemblages of infra-gypsum diatomites in the Sorbas basin (SE Spain). Cryptogamie Algol., 22, 127-149.
42. Sánchez-Almazo, I.M., Spiro, B., Braga, J.C. and Martín, J.M. (2001) Constraints of stable isotope signatures on the depositional palaeoenvironments of upper Miocene reef and temperate carbonates in the Sorbas Basin, SE Spain. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol., 175, 153-172.
43. Shackleton, N.J. and Hall, M.A. (1997) The Late Miocene stable isotope record, Site 926. Proc. ODP Sci. Res., 154, 367-373.
44. Sierro, F.J., Flores, J.A., Civis, J., González-Delgado, J.A. and Francés, G. (1993) Late Miocene globorotaliid event-stratigraphy and biogeography in the NE-Atlantic and Mediterranean. Mar. Micropaleontol., 21, 143-168.
45. Sierro, F.J., Hilgen, F.J., Krijgsman, W. and Flores, J.A. (2001) The Abad composite (SE Spain): A Messinian reference section for the Mediterranean and the APTS. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol., 168, 141-169.
46. Sierro, F.J., Flores, J.A., Frances, G., Vazquez, A., Utrilla, R., Zamarreno, I., Erlenkeuser, H. and Barcena, M.A. (2003) Orbitally-controlled oscillations in planktic communities and cyclic changes in western Mediterranean hydrography during the Messinian. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol., 190, 289-316.
47. Sprovieri, R., Di Stefano, E. and Sprovieri, M. (1996) High resolution chronology for Late Miocene Mediterranean stratigraphic events. Riv. Ital. Paleontol. Strat., 102, 77-104.
48. Thunell, R. and Sautier, L.R. (1992) Planktonic foraminiferal faunal and stable isotopic indices of upwelling: A sediment trap study in the San Pedro Basin, Southern California Bight. In: Upwelling Systems: Evolution since the Early Miocene (Eds C.P. Summerhayes, W.L. Prell and K.C. Emeis), Geol. Soc. Lond. Spec. Publ. Lond., 64, 77-91.
49. Vergnaud-Grazzini, C. (1985) Mediterranean late Cenozoic stable isotope record: Stratigraphic and paleoclimatic implications. In: Geological Evolution of the Mediterranean Basin (Eds D.F. Stanley and F.G. Wezel), pp. 413-451. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
50. Vidal, L., Bickert, T., Wefer, G. and Rohl, U. (2002) Late Miocene stable isotope stratigraphy of SE Atlantic ODP Site 1085: Relation to Messinian events. Mar. Geol., 180, 71-85.
51. 18O. Quatern. Sci. Rev., 24, 853-868.
52. Weijermars, R., Roep, T.B., van den Eeckhout, B., Postma, G. and Kleverlaan, K. (1985) Uplift history of a Betic fold nappe inferred from Neogene-Quaternary sedimentation and tectonics (in the Sierra Alhamilla and Almeria, Sorbas and Tabernas Basins of the Betic Cordillera, SE Spain). Geol. Mijnbouw, 64, 397-411.
53. Wolf-Gladrow, D.A., Bijma, J. and Zeebe, R.E. (1999) Model simulation of the carbonate chemistry in the microenvironment of symbiont bearing foraminifera. Mar. Chem., 64, 181-198.