Palynofacies analysis and sedimentary environment of Early Jurassic coastal sediments at the southern border of the Neuquén Basin, Argentina

Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 227-245

  Zavattieri, Ana María ^a   Rosenfeld, Ulrich ^b   Volkheimer, Wolfgang ^a  

^a INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE NIVOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Argentina; Coastal environment; Early Jurassic; Neuqu n Basin; Palynofacies; Patagonia

Indexed keywords

ALGAE;

EID: 52249117121     PISSN: 08959811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2007.06.006     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Alvin, K.L., Cheirolepidaceae: biology, structure and paleoecology. Review of Paleobotany and Palynology 37 (1982), 71–98.
2. Alvin, K.L., Reconstruction of a Lower Cretaceous conifer. Botanical Journal of the Linnaean Society 86 (1983), 169–176.
3. Arrondo, O.G., Petriella, B., Alicurá, nueva localidad plantífera liásica de la Provincia de Neuquén, Argentina. Ameghiniana 17 (1981), 200–215.
4. Arrondo, O.G., Spalletti, L.A., Morel, E.M. Ganuza, G.D., 1991. The sedimentological and paleobotanical characteristics of an Upper Triassic–Lower Liassic basin in northwestern Patagonia (Argentina). In: Ulbrich, H., Rocha-Campos, A.C. (Eds.), Seventh International Gondwana Symposium Proceedings. Instituto de Geociencias, Universidade de Sao Paulo, 714, pp. 517–532.
5. Batten, D.J., Use of palynologic assemblage-types in Wealden correlation. Palaeontology 16 (1973), 1–40.
6. Batten, D.J., 1975. Wealden palaeoecology from the distribution of plant fossils. Proceedings of Geologists’ Association 85 (for 1974), pp. 433–458.
7. Batten, D.J., 1983. Identification of amorphous sedimentary organic matter by transmitted light microscopy. In: Brooks, J. (Ed.), Petroleum Geochemistry and Eexploration of Europe. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 11, pp. 275–287.
8. Batten, D.J., 1996. Chapter 26A. Palynofacies and palaeoenvironmental interpretation. In: Jansonius, J., McGregor, D.C. (Eds.), Palynology: Principles and Applications, American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation, 3, pp. 1011–1064.
9. Batten, D.J., 1999. Palynofacies analysis. In: Jones, T.P., Rowe, N.P. (Eds.), Fossil Plants and Spores: Modern Techniques, Geological Society, London, pp. 194–198.
10. Batten, D.J., Lister, J.K., Evidence of freshwater dinoflagellates and other algae in the English Wealden (Early Cretaceous). Cretaceous Research 9 (1988), 171–179.
11. Boulter, M.C., Riddick, A., Classification and analysis of palynodebris from the Palaeocene sediments of the Forties Field. Sedimentology 33 (1986), 871–876.
12. Combaz, A., 1964. Les palynofaciès. Revue du Micropalèont (Paris). 7, 205–218.
13. Feist-Burkhardt, S., Wille, W., 1992. Jurassic palynology in southwest Germany – state of the art. In: Eighth International Palynological Congress, Aix-en-Provence, 13–16th Sept. 1992 – Excursion F. Cahiers de Micropaléontologie, N.S. 1992, Éditions du CNRS, 7 (1/2) Pl. 1–3, pp. 141–156,.
14. Füchtbauer, H., 1988. Sandsteine. In: Füchtbauer, H. (Ed.), Sediment-Petrologie, Teil II: Sedimente und Sedimentgesteine. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, pp. 97–184.
15. Herbst, R., Gnaedinger, S., Kurtziana Frenguelli (Pteridospermae? Incertae sedis) y Alicurana, nov. gen. (Cycadopsida) del Triásico y Jurásico Temprano de Argentina y Chile. Ameghiniana 39 (2002), 331–342.
16. Hunt, J.M., Generation of gas and oil from coal and other terrestrial organic matter. Organic Geochemistry 17 (1987), 673–680.
17. Jenchen, U., Fazies und Geochemie in kontinentalen Trias-Becken im westlichen Argentinien und in Patagonien (30°–50°S). Münstersche Forschungen zur Geologie und Paläontologie, 91, 2001, 441.
18. Jenchen, U., Rosenfeld, U., Triassic in Argentina: response to tectonic activity. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 15 (2002), 461–479.
19. Lapido, O.R., Lizuaín, A., Núñez, E., 1984. La cobertura sedimentaria Mesozoica. In: Ramos, V. (Ed.), Geología y recursos naturales de la Provincia de Río Negro, Relatorio 9° Congreso Geológico Argentino, pp. 139–162.
20. Lister, J.K., Batten, D.J., Stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental distribution of Early Cretaceous dinoflagellate cysts in the Hurlands Farm borehole, West Sussex, England. Palaeontographica B 210:1–3 (1988), 9–89.
21. Matthiessen, J., Kunz-Pirrung, M., Mudie, P.J., Freshwater chlorophycean algae in recent marine sediments of the Beaufort, Laptev and Kara Seas (Arctic Ocean) as indicators of river runoff. International Journal of Earth Sciences 89 (2000), 470–485.
22. Nullo, F.E., 1979. Descripción geológica de la Hoja 39c, Paso Flores, Provincia de Río Negro, Boletín Servicio Geológico Nacional (Argentina) 167, 1–70, 1 map.
23. Prauss, M., 2000. The oceanographic and climatic interpretation of marine palynomorph phytoplankton distribution from Mesozoic, Cenozoic and Recent sections. GAGP: Göttinger Arbeiten zur Geologie und Paläontologie, 76, p. 235, 118 Fig., 27 Tab., 2 Taf, Göttingen.
24. Quartino, B.J., Rinaldi, C.A., Maisterrena, E., 1981. Tres casos argentinos de movimientos interestratales. 8° Congreso Geológico Argentino, Actas, pp. 300–301.
25. Quattrocchio, M., Damborenea, S.E., 1993a. Las Coloradas Formation. In: Riccardi, A.C., Damborenea, S.E. (Eds.): Léxico Estratigráfico de la Argentina. Volumen IX: Jurásico.-Asociación Geológica Argentina, Serie “B” (Didáctica y Complementaria) 21, 221–223.
26. Quattrocchio, M., Damborenea, S.E., 1993b. Nestares Formation. In: Riccardi, A.C., Damborenea, S.E. (Eds.): Lexico Estratigráfico de la Argentina. Volumen IX: Jurásico.-Asociación Geológica Argentina, Serie “B” (Didáctica y Complementaria) 21, 281–282.
27. Quattrocchio, M., Sarjeant, W.A.S. and Volkheimer, W., 1996. Marine and Terrestrial Jurassic Microfloras of the Neuquén Basin (Argentina): Palynological Zonation, vols. 1–2. GeoResearch Forum, Transtec Publications, Switzerland, pp. 167–178.
28. Reineck, H.E., Singh, I.B., Depositional Sedimentary Environments. second ed., 1980, Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York pp. 439.
29. Rich, F.J., Kuehn, D., Davies, T.D., The paleoecological significance of Ovoidites. Palynology 6 (1982), 19–28.
30. Riding, J.B., Walton, W., Shaw, D., Toarcian to Bathonian (Jurassic) palynology of the Inner Hebrides, northwest Scotland. Palynology 15 (1991), 115–179.
31. Riding, J.B., Fedorova, V.A., Ilyina, V.I., Jurassic and lowermost Cretaceous dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy of the Russian Platform and Northern Siberia, Russia. AASP Contributions Series 36 (1999), 1–179.
32. Riding, J.B., Helby, R., Early Jurassic (Toarcian) dinoflagellate cysts from the Timor Sea, Australia. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 24 (2001), 1–32.
33. Rosenfeld, U., Volkheimer, W., Turbidite und andere Rhythmite im tieferen Jura des Neuquén-Beckens (Argentinien). Turbidites and other rhythmic sediments in the Lower Jurassic of the Neuquén Basin (Argentine). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen (Stuttgart) 159:3 (1980), 379–421.
34. Rosenfeld, U., Das Südende der Anden-Geosynklinale. Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Teil I(3/4), 1981, 402–416.
35. Spalletti, L.A., Lower Jurassic anastomosing fluvial deposits from the cratonic margin of an Andean back-arc Basin, Argentina. GeoResearch Forum 1–2 (1996), 265–274.
36. Spalletti, L.A., Arrondo, O.G., Morel, E., Ganuza, D.G., Estudio sedimentológico y paleoflorístico de la Formación Paso Flores, Triásico Superior, en el sector occidental del Macizo Nordpatagónico, Argentina. Quinto Congreso Geológico Chileno 2 (1988), C395–C413.
37. Spalletti, L.A., Arrondo, O.G., Morel, E., Ganuza, D.G., Los depositos fluviales de la cuenca Triásica Superior en el sector noroeste del Masizo Nordpatagónico. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina 43 (1988), 544–557.
38. Spalletti, L.A., Merodio, J.C., Matheos, S.D., Composición, procedencia y marco tectónico de sedimentitas eojurásicas (Formación Nestares) del sudeste de la Cuenca Neuquina. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina 47 (1992), 277–286.
39. Stipanicic, P.N., Milestones in the study of the Jurassic of Argentina. GeoResearch Forum 1–2 (1996), 23–42.
40. Tyson, R.V., Palynofacies investigations of Callovian (Middle Jurassic) sediments from DSDP Site 534, Blake-Bahama Basin, Western Central Atlantic. Marine and Petroleum Geology 1 (1984), 3–13.
41. Tyson, R.V., 1987. The genesis and palynofacies characteristics of marine petroleum source rocks. In: Brooks, J., Fleet, A.J. (Eds.), Marine Petroleum Source Rocks, Geological Society Special Publication 26, pp. 47–67.
42. Tyson, R.V., 1989. Late Jurassic palynofacies trends, Piper and Kimmeridge Clay Formations, UK onshore and offshore. In: Batten, D.J., Keen, M.C. (Eds.), Northwest European Micropalaeontology and Palynology, British Micropalaeontological Society Series, Ellis Horwood, Chichester, pp. 135–172.
43. Tyson, R.V., Chapter 5: Palynofacies analysis. Jenkins, D.G., (eds.) Applied Micropaleontology, 1993, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, 153–191.
44. Tyson, R.V., Sedimentary Organic Matter: Organic facies, and palynofacies. 1995, Chapman and Hall, London pp. 615.
45. Van der Zwan, C.J., Palynostratigraphy and palynofacies reconstruction of the Upper Jurassic to lowermost Cretaceous of the Draguen Field, offshore Mid Norway. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 62 (1990), 157–186.
46. Visher, G.S., Grainsize distributions and depositional processes. Journal of sedimentary Petrology 39 (1969), 1074–1106.
47. Volkheimer, W., 1984. Microfloras fósiles mesozoicas. In: Ramos, V. (Ed.): Geología y recursos naturales de la Provincia de Río Negro. 9° Congreso Geológico Argentino, Relatorio, pp. 382–391.
48. Volkheimer, W., Caccavari, M., González-Amicón, O., 1981. Estudio palinológico de estratos liásicos en el borde austral de la Cuenca Neuquina. 7° Congreso Geológico Argentino, Actas IV, pp. 777–793.
49. Zavattieri, A.M., Volkheimer, W., Rosenfeld, U., 1994. Palynology and facies of the Late Triassic of Comallo (Northern Patagonia, Argentina). Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie Teil I, Stuttgart, 9, 1993, Heft 1/2, pp. 133–154.
50. Zavattieri, A.M., Volkheimer, W., 2001. Palynologic and paleoenvironmental characterization of strata near the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in northern Patagonia, Argentina. In: 34th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, October, 2001, San Antonio Abstracts, p. 51.
51. Zavattieri, A.M., Volkheimer, W., Palynostratigraphy and paleoenvironments of Early Jurassic strata (Nestares Formation) in northern Patagonia, Argentina. Part 1: Terrestrial species. Ameghiniana 40 (2003), 545–558.
52. Zippi, P.A., Freshwater algae from the Mattagami Formation (Albian), Ontario. Paleoecology botanical affinities, and systematic taxonomy. Micropaleontology 44:Suppl. 1 (1998), 1–78.