Defining the timing and duration of the Kaák Interval within the Eifelian/Givetian boundary GSSP, Mech Irdane, Morocco, using geochemical and magnetic susceptibility patterns

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 304, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 74-84

  Ellwood Brooks B , B B ^a   Algeo, Thomas J ^b   El Hassani, Ahmed ^c   Tomkin, Jonathan H ^d   Rowe, Harry D ^e  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c Institut Scientifique   (Morocco)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate cyclicity; Eifelian Givetian boundary; Ka k bio event; Magnetic susceptibility (MS); Pumilio bio event; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DATA SET; EIFELIAN; FOURIER TRANSFORM; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; GIVETIAN; MAGNETIC METHOD; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RESOLUTION; TIME SERIES;

ANTI ATLAS; ATLAS MOUNTAINS;

EID: 79954908996     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.10.012     Document Type: Article

References (68)

1. Algeo T.J., Maynard J.B. Trace element behavior and redox facies in core shales of Upper Pennsylvanian Kansas-type cyclothems. Chemical Geology 2004, 206:289-318.
2. Algeo T.J., Scheckler S.E. Terrestrial-marine teleconnections in the Devonian: links between the evolution of land plants, weathering processes, and marine anoxic events. Royal Society of London Philosophical Transactions 1998, B353:113-130.
3. Algeo T.J., Wilkinson B.H., Lohmann K.C. Meteoric-burial diagenesis of Pennsylvanian carbonate: water/rock interactions and basin geothermics. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 1992, 62:652-670.
4. Algeo T.J., Berner R.A., Maynard J.B., Scheckler S.E. Late Devonian oceanic anoxic events and biotic crises: "rooted" in the evolution of vascular land plants GSA Today 1995, 5(45):64-66.
5. Algeo T.J., Hannigan R., Rowe H., Brookfield M., Baud A., Krystyn L., Ellwood B.B. Sequencing events across the Permian-Triassic boundary, Guryul Ravine (Kashmir, India). Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 2007, 252:328-346.
6. Averbuch O., Tribovillard N., Devleeschouwer X., Riquier L., Mistiaen B., van Vliet-Lanoe B. Mountain building-enhanced continental weathering and organic carbon burial as major causes for climatic cooling at the Frasnian-Famennian boundary (c. 376Ma). Terra Nova 2004, 17:25-34.
7. Barnes C., Hallam A., Kaljo D., Kauffman E.G., Walliser O.H. Global event stratigraphy. Global Events and Event Stratigraphy 1996, 225-250. Springer Verlag, Berlin. O.H. Walliser (Ed.).
8. Berger A., Loutre M.F., Laskar J. Stability of the astronomical frequencies over the Earth's history for paleoclimate studies. Science 1992, 255:560-566.
9. Boulila S., Hinnov L.A., Huret E., Colling P.-Y., Galbrun B., Fortwengler D., Marchand D., Thierry J. Astronomical calibration of the Early Oxfordian (Vocontian and Paris basins, France): consequences of revising the Late Jurassic time scale. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2008, 276:40-51.
10. Brett C.E., Baird G.C. Epiboles, outages, and ecological evolutionary bioevents: taphonomic, ecological, and evolutionary factors. Paleontological Events: Stratigraphic, Ecological, and Evolutionary Implications 1997, 249-285. Columbia University Press, New York. C.E. Brett, G.C. Baird (Eds.).
11. Brett C.E., Baird G., Bartholomew A.J., DeSantis M.K., Ver Straeten C.A. Sequence stratigraphy and a revised sea-level curve for the Middle Devonian of eastern North America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2011, 304:21-53. (this volume).
12. Buggisch W., Joachimski M.M. Carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Devonian of Central and Southern Europe. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2006, 240:68-88.
13. Buggisch W., Mann U. Carbon isotope stratigraphy of Lochkovian to Eifelian limestones from the Devonian of central and southern Europe. International Journal of Earth Sciences 2004, 93:521-541.
14. 18O records-their relation to the Late Palaeozoic Glaciation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2008, 268:273-292.
15. Crick R.E., Ellwood B.B., El Hassani A., Feist R. Proposed magnetostratigraphy susceptibility magnetostratotype for the Eifelian-Givetian GSSP (Anti-Atlas Morocco). Episodes 2000, 23:93-101.
16. Crick R.E., Ellwood B.B., El Hassani A., Hladil J., Hrouda F., Chlupá I. Magnetostratigraphy susceptibility of the Pridoli-Lochkovian (Silurian-Devonian) GSSP (Klonk, Czech Republic) and a coeval sequence in Anti-Atlas Morocco. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2001, 167:73-100.
17. da Silva A.-C., Boulvain F. Sedimentology, magnetic susceptibility and isotopes of a Middle Frasnian carbonate platform: Tailfer Section, Belgium. Facies 2002, 46:89-102.
18. DeSantis M.K., Brett C.E., Ver Straeten C.A. Persistent depositional sequences and bioevents in the Eifelian (early Middle Devonian) of eastern Laurentia: North America. Evidence of the Kaák Events. Special Publications 2007, 278:83-104. Geological Society of London. R.T. Becker, W.T. Kirchgasser (Eds.).
19. Dettinger M.D., Ghil M., Strong C.M., Weibel W., Yiou P. Software expedites singular-spectrum analysis of noisy time series. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 1995, 76:12-21.
20. Diener A., Ebneth S., Veizer J., Buhl D. Strontium isotope stratigraphy of the Middle Devonian: brachiopods and conodonts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 1996, 60:639-652.
21. Dinarès-Turell J., Baceta J.I., Bernaola G., Orue-Etxebarria X., Pujalte V. Closing the Mid-Palaeocene gap: toward a complete astronomically tuned Palaeocene Epoch and Selandian and Thanetian GSSPs at Zumaia (Basque Basin, W Pyrenees). Earth Planetary Science Letters 2007, 262:450-467.
22. Ellwood B.B., Crick R.E., El Hassani A., Benoist S.L., Young R.H. The magnetosusceptibility event and cyclostratigraphy (MSEC) method applied to marine rocks: detrital input versus carbonate productivity. Geology 2000, 28:1134-1138.
23. Ellwood B.B., Benoist S.L., El Hassani A., Wheeler C., Crick R.E. Impact ejecta layer from the Mid-Devonian: possible connection to global mass extinctions. Science 2003, 300:1734-1737.
24. Ellwood B.B., Brett C.E., MacDonald W.D. Magnetosusceptibility stratigraphy of the Upper Ordovician Kope Formation, Northern Kentucky. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2007, 243:42-54.
25. Ellwood B.B., Tomkin J., Richards B., Benoist S.L., Lambert L.L. MSEC data sets record glacially driven cyclicity: examples from the Arrow Canyon Mississippian-Pennsylvanian GSSP and associated sections. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2007, 255:377-390. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.08.006.
26. Ellwood B.B., Tomkin J.H., Febo L.A., Stuart C.N. Time series analysis of magnetic susceptibility variations in deep marine sediments: a test using Upper Danian-Lower Selandian proposed GSSP, Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2008, 261:270-279.
27. Ellwood B.B., Tomkin J.H., Ratcliffe K.T., Wright M., Kafafy A.M. High resolution magnetic susceptibility and geochemistry for the Cenomanian/Turonian boundary GSSP with correlation to time equivalent core. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2008, 261:105-126.
28. Ellwood B.B., Tomkin J.H., El Hassani A., Bultynck P., Brett C.E., Schindler E., Feist R., Bartholomew A. A climate-driven model and development of a floating point time scale for the entire Middle Devonian Givetian Stage: a test using magnetostratigraphic susceptibility as a climate proxy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2011, 304:85-95. (this volume).
29. Gale A.S., Voigt S., Sageman B.B., Kennedy W.J. Eustatic sea-level record for the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous)-extension to the Western Interior Basin, USA. Geology 2008, 36:859-862.
30. Ghil M., Allen R.M., Dettinger M.D., Ide K., Kondrashov D., Mann M.E., Robertson A., Saunders A., Tian Y., Varadi F., Yiou P. Advanced spectral methods for climatic time series. Reviews in Geophysics 2002, 40(1):3.1-3.41. 10.1029/2000RG000092.
31. Hartl P., Tauxe L., Herbert T. Earliest Oligocene increase in South Atlantic productivity as interpreted from "rock magnetics" at Deep Sea drilling Site 522. Paleoceanography 1995, 10:311-326.
32. House M.R. Correlation of mid-Palaeozoic ammonoids evolutionary events with global sedimentary perturbations. Nature 1985, 313:17-22.
33. House M.R. Strength, timing, setting and cause of mid-Palaeozoic extinctions. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2002, 181:5-25.
34. 18O record. Milankovitch and Climate, Part I 1984, 269-305. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. A.L. Berger, J. Imbrie, J. Hays, G. Kukla, B. Saltzman (Eds.).
35. Jenkins G.M., Watts D.G. Spectral Analysis and its Applications 1968, Holden-Day, San Francisco, 525 pp.
36. 18O signatures indicate climatic cooling as a trigger of the Late Devonian mass extinction. Geology 2002, 30:711-714.
37. 34S across the Frasnian-Famennian boundary (Kowala-Holy Cross Mountains/Poland). Chemical Geology 2001, 175:109-131.
38. Joachimski M.M., Pancost R.D., Freeman K.H., Ostertag-Henning C., Buggisch W. Carbon isotope geochemistry of the Frasnian-Famennian transition. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2002, 181:91-109.
39. Joachimski M.M., van Geldern R., Breisig S., Buggisch W., Day J. Oxygen isotope evolution of biogenic calcite and apatite during the Middle and Late Devonian. International Journal of Earth Sciences 2004, 93:542-553.
40. Joachimski M.M., Breisig S., Buggisch W., Talent J.A., Mawson R., Gereke M., Morrow J.R., Day J., Weddige K. Devonian climate and reef evolution: insights form oxygen isotopes in apatite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2009, 284:599-609.
41. Johnson J.G., Klapper G., Sandberg C.A. Devonian eustatic fluctuations in Euramerica. Geological Society of America Bulletin 1985, 96:567-587.
42. Kaufmann B. Calibrating the Devonian time scale: a synthesis of U-Pb ID-TIMS ages and conodont stratigraphy. Earth-Science Reviews 2006, 76:175-190.
43. Laskar J., Robutel P., Joutel F., Gastineau M., Correia A., Levrard B. A long-term numerical solution for the insolation quantities of the Earth. Astronomy and Astrophysics 2004, 428:261-285.
44. Lottmann, J., 1990a. Die pumilio-Events (Mittel-Devon). Gottinger Arbeiten zur Geologie und Paläontologie 44, 99pp.
45. Lottmann J. The Middle Givetian pumilio-Events a tool for high resolution and event-stratigraphical correlation. Extinction Events in Earth History 1990, 30:145-149. E.G. Kauffmann, O.H. Walliser (Eds.).
46. Mead G.A., Tauxe L., LaBrecque J.L. Oligocene paleoceanography of the South Atlantic: paleoclimate implications of sediment accumulation rates and magnetic susceptibility. Paleoceanography 1986, 1:273-284.
47. Morford J.L., Emerson S.R., Breckel E.J., Kim S.H. Diagenesis of oxyanions (V, U, Re, and Mo) in pore waters and sediments from a continental margin. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2005, 69:5021-5032.
48. Ogg J.G., Ogg G., Gradstein F.M. The Concise Geologic Time Scale 2008, Cambridge University Press, England, 177pp.
49. Olsen P.E., Kent D.V. Milankovitch climate forcing in the tropics of Pangaea during the Late Triassic. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 1995, 122:1-26.
50. Riquier L., Tribovillard N., Averbuch O., Joachimski M.M., Racki G., Devleeschouwer X., El Albani A., Riboulleau A. Productivity and bottom water redox conditions at the Frasnian-Famennian boundary on both sides of the Eovariscan Belt: constraints from trace-element geochemistry. Understanding Late Devonian and Permian-Triassic Biotic and Climatic Events 2005, 199-224. Elsevier, Amsterdam. D.J. Over, J.R. Morrow, P.B. Wignall (Eds.).
51. 188Os in a purported impact ejecta layer near Eifelian-Givetian stage boundary, Middle Devonian. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2006, 249:162-172.
52. Schöne, B.R., 1997. Der otomari-Event und seine Auswirkungen auf die Fazies des Rhenoherzynischen Schelfs (Devon, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge). Göttinger Arbeiten zur Geologie und Paläontologie 70, 140pp.
53. Shackleton N.J., McCave I.N., Weedon G.P. Preface. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London, A 1999, 357:1733-1734.
54. Shackleton N.J., Crowhurst S.J., Weedon G.P., Laskar J. Astronomical calibration of Oligocene-Miocene time. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London, A 1999, 357:1907-1929.
55. Shaw A.B. Time in Stratigraphy 1964, New York, McGraw Hill, 365pp.
56. Swartzendruber L.J. Properties, units and constants in magnetism. Journal of Magnetic Materials 1992, 100:573-575.
57. Thomson J., Higgs N.C., Wilson T.R.S., Croudace L.W., de Lange G.J., van Santvoort P.J.M. Redistribution and geochemical behavior of redox-sensitive elements around S1, the most recent eastern Mediterranean sapropel. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 1995, 59:3487-3501.
58. Tribovillard N., Algeo T.J., Lyons T.W., Riboulleau A. Application of trace metals as paleoredox and paleoproductivity proxies. Chemical Geology 2006, 232:12-32.
59. Tucker R.D., Bradley D.C., Ver Straeten C.A., Harris A.G., Ebert J.R., McCutcheon S.R. New U-Pb zircon ages and the duration and division of Devonian time. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 1998, 158:175-186.
60. van Geldern R., Joachimski M.M., Day J., Jansen U., Alvarez F., Yolkin E.A., Ma X.-P. Carbon, oxygen and strontium isotope records of Devonian brachiopod shell calcite. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2006, 240:47-67.
61. Walliser O.H. How to define "Global Bio-Events". Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 1990, 30:1-3. Springer Verlag, Berlin. E.G. Kauffman, O.H. Walliser (Eds.).
62. Walliser O.H. Jebel Mech Irdane (Mapsheet Erfoud, NH-30-XX-2). Morocco, Field Meeting of the Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy 1991, 25-47. O.H. Walliser (Ed.).
63. Walliser O.H. Global events in the Devonian and Carboniferous. Global Events and Event Stratigraphy 1996, 225-250. Springer Verlag, Berlin. O.H. Walliser (Ed.).
64. Walliser O.H. The Jebel Mech Irdane section: SDS-IGCP 421 Morocco Meeting. Field Trip Excursion Guidebook 1999, 65-71.
65. Walliser O.H., Bultynck P., Weddige K., Becker R.T., House M.R. Definition of the Eifelian-Givetian Stage boundary. Episodes 1995, 18:107-115.
66. Weedon G.P., Shackleton N.J., Pearson P.N. The Oligocene time scale and cyclostratigraphy on the Ceara Rise, western equatorial Atlantic. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 1997, vol. 154:101-114. 5. N.J. Schackleton, W.B. Curry, C. Richter, T.J. Bralower (Eds.).
67. Weedon G.P., Jenkyns H.C., Coe A.L., Hesselbo S.P. Astronomical calibration of the Jurassic time-scale from cyclostratigraphy in British mudrock formations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London, A 1999, 357:1787-1813.
68. Whalen M.T., Day J.E. Magnetic susceptibility, biostratigraphy, and sequence stratigraphy: insights into Devonian carbonate platform development and basin infilling, Western Alberta. Special Publication 2008, 89:291-314. SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology. J. Lukasik, J.A. Simo (Eds.).