Using multiple environmental proxies to determine degree of marine influence and paleogeographical position of the joggins fossil cliffs, unesco world heritage site

Palaios

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 256-263

  Grey, Melissa ^a,b   Pufahl, Peir K ^b   Aziz, Annas Abdul ^b  

^a Joggins Fossil Institute   (Canada)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; GYMNOSPERM; INVERTEBRATE; LIMESTONE; MANGROVE; OPEN OCEAN; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PENNSYLVANIAN; PRESERVATION; PYRITE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; UNESCO; WORLD HERITAGE SITE;

CANADA; JOGGINS; NOVA SCOTIA;

BIVALVIA; BRACHIOPODA; CORDAITES; ECHINODERMATA; OSTRACODA; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 79955861165     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2010.p10-118r     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. ANDERSON, L.I., DUNLOP, J.A., HORROCKS, C.A., WINKELMANN, H.M., and EAGAR, R.M.C., 1997, Exceptionally preserved fossil from Bickershaw, Lancashire UK (Upper Carboniferous, Westphalian A (Langsettian)): Geological Journal, v. 32, p. 197-210.
2. ARCHER, A.W., CALDER, J.H., GIBLING, M.R., NAYLOR, R.D., REID, D.R., and WIGHTMAN, W.G., 1995, Invertebrate trace fossils and agglutinated foraminifera as indicators of marine influence within the classic Carboniferous section at Joggins, Nova Scotia, Canada: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 32, p. 2027-2039. (Pubitemid 26468944)
3. BOARDMAN, E.L., 1989, Coal measures (Namurian and Westphalian) blackband iron formations: Fossil bog iron ores: Sedimentology, v. 36, p. 621-633.
4. BOON, J., and CALDER, J.H., 2007, Nomination of the Joggins Fossil Cliffs for Inscription on the World Heritage List, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Cumberland Regional Economic Development Association, Amherst, Nova Scotia, 129 p., http://whc.unesco.org/en/ list/1285/ documents. Checked February 2011.
5. BRAND, U., 1994, Continental hydrology and climatology of the Carboniferous Joggins Formation (Lower Cumberland Group) at Joggins, Nova Scotia: Evidence from the geochemistry of bivalves: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 106, p. 307-321. (Pubitemid 24424966)
6. CALDER, J.H., 2006, "Coal age Galapagos": Joggins and the lions of nineteenth century geology: Atlantic Geology, v. 42, p. 37-51.
7. CALDER, J.H., RYGEL, M.C., RYAN, R.J., GIBLING, M.R., FALCON-LANG, H.J., and HEBERT, B.L., 2005, Stratigraphy and sedimentology of early Pennsylvanian red beds at Lower Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada: The Little River Formation with redefinition of the Joggins Formation: Atlantic Geology, v. 41, p. 143-167.
8. DAVIES, S.J., and GIBLING, M.R., 2003, Architecture of coastal and alluvial deposits in an extensional basin: The Carboniferous Joggins Formation of eastern Canada: Sedimentology, v. 50, p. 415-439. (Pubitemid 36861927)
9. DAVIES, S.J., GIBLING, M.R., RYGEL, M.C., CALDER, J.H., and SKILLITER, D.M., 2005, The Pennsylvanian Joggins Formation of Nova Scotia: Sedimentological log and stratigraphic framework of the historic fossil cliffs: Atlantic Geology, v. 41, p. 115-142.
10. DIMICHELE, W.A., and FALCON-LANG, H.J., 2011, Pennsylvanian 'fossil forests' in growth position (T0 assemblages): Origin, taphonomic bias and palaeoecological insights: Journal of the Geological Society, v. 168, p. 585-605, doi: 10.1144/0016- 76492010-103.
11. DIVENERE, V.J., and OPDYKE, N.D., 1991, Magnetic polarity stratigraphy and Carboniferous paleopole positions from the Joggins section, Cumberland structural basin, Nova Scotia: Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth, v. 96, p. 4051-4064.
12. DOLBY, G., 1991, The palynology of the western Cumberland Basin, Nova Scotia: Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy, Open File Report 91-006, p. 1-39.
13. DOLBY, G., 2003, Palynological analysis of ten outcrop and core-hole samples from Nova Scotia: Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Open File Report 2003-005, p. 1-7.
14. DUFF, P.MCL.D., and WALTON, E.K., 1973, Carboniferous sediments at Joggins, Nova Scotia, in Josten, K., ed., Septième Congrès International de Stratigraphie et de Géologie du Carbonifère (Krefeld, 1971): Comptes Rendus, Geologisches Landesamt Nordrhein-Westfalen, v. 2, p. 365-379.
15. FALCON-LANG, H.J., 2005, Small cordaitalean trees in a marine-influenced coastal habitat in the Pennsylvanian Joggins Formation, Nova Scotia: Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 162, p. 485-500. (Pubitemid 40687155)
16. FALCON-LANG, H.J., 2006, A history of research at the Joggins fossil cliffs of Nova Scotia, Canada, the world's finest Pennsylvanian section: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, v. 117, p. 377-392. (Pubitemid 44696610)
17. FALCON-LANG, H.J., BENTON, M.J., BRADDY, S.J., and DAVIES, S.J., 2006, The Pennsylvanian tropical biome reconstructed from the Joggins Formation of Nova Scotia, Canada: Journal of the Geological Society, v. 163, p. 561-576.
18. FIELDING, C.R., 1986, Fluvial channel and overbank deposits from the Westphalian of the Durham coalfield, NE England: Sedimentology, v. 33, p. 119-140.
19. FOLK, R.L., 2005, Nannobacteria and the formation of framboidal pyrite: Textural evidence: Journal of Earth System Science, v. 114, p. 369-374.
20. FROELICH, P.N., KLINKHAMMER, G.P., BENDER, M.L., LUEDTKE, N.A., HEATH, G.R., CULLEN, D., DAUPHIN, P., HAMMOND, D., HARTMAN, B., and MAYNARD, V., 1979, Early oxidation of organic matter in pelagic sediments of the eastern equatorial Atlantic: Suboxic diagenesis: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 43, p. 1075- 1090.
21. GERSIB, G.A., and MCCABE, P.J., 1981, Continental coal-bearing sediments of the Port Hood Formation (Carboniferous), Cape Linzee, Nova Scotia, Canada, in Ethridge, F.G., and Flores, R.M., eds., Recent and Ancient Nonmarine Depositional Environments: Models for Exploration: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Special Publication, Tulsa, Oklahoma, v. 31, p. 95-108.
22. GIBLING, M.R., 1995, Upper Paleozoic rocks, Nova Scotia, in Williams, H., ed., Geology of the Appalachian-Caledonian Orogen in Canada and Greenland: The Geology of North America, v. F-1, Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado, p. 493-523.
23. GIBLING, M.R., CALDER, J.H., RYAN, R.M., VAN DE POLL, H.W., and YEO, G.M., 1992, Late Carboniferous and Early Permian drainage patterns in Atlantic Canada: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 29, p. 338-352.
24. GIBLING, M.R., and KALKREUTH, W.D., 1991, Petrology of selected carbonaceous limestones and shales in late Carboniferous coal basins of Atlantic Canada: International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 17, p. 239-272.
25. GIBLING, M.R., and RYGEL, M.C., 2008, Late Paleozoic cyclic strata of Euramerica: Recognition of Gondwanan glacial signatures during periods of thermal subsidence, in Fielding, C.R., Frank, T.D., and Isbell J.L, eds., Resolving the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Time and Space: Geological Society of America Special Publication, v. 441, p. 219-233.
26. GLENN, C.R., and ARTHUR, M.A., 1988, Petrology and major element geochemistry of Peru margin phosphorites and associated diagenetic minerals: Authigenesis in modern organic rich sediments: Marine Geology, v. 80, p. 231-268.
27. GRADSTEIN, F.M., OGG, J.G. and SMITH, A.G., eds., 2004, A Geological Timescale 2004: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 589 p.
28. HASZELDINE, R.S., 1984, Muddy deltas in freshwater lakes, and tectonism in the Upper Carboniferous Coalfield of NE England: Sedimentology, v. 31, p. 811-822.
29. HEBERT, B.L., and CALDER, J.H., 2004, On the discovery of a unique terrestrial faunal assemblage in the classic Pennsylvanian section at Joggins, Nova Scotia: Canadian of Earth Sciences, v. 41, p. 247-254. (Pubitemid 38587498)
30. KAPLAN, S.S., DONAHUE, J., CARR, J.D., and KELTER, P.B., 1985, Analysis of the traceelement content of coals from the Carboniferous Cumberland group, near Joggins, Nova Scotia, Canada: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 22, p. 626-629.
31. MALIVA, R.G., 1989, Displacive calcite syntaxial overgrowths in open marine limestones: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 59, p. 397-403.
32. OPLUSTIL, S., 2004, Late Carboniferous tectono-sedimentary evolution and related terrestrial biotic changes on the North Variscan and Appalachian forelands, and adjacent paralic and continental basins: Geologica Balcanica, v. 34, p. 51-67.
33. RAINSWELL, R., 1982, Pyrite texture, isotopic composition and the availability of iron: American Journal of Science, v. 282, p. 1244-1263.
34. RAYMOND, A., LAMBERT, L., COSTANZA, S., SLONE, E.J., and CUTLIP, P.C., 2010, Cordaiteans in paleotropical wetlands: An ecological re-evaluation: International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 83, p. 248-265.
35. RAYMOND, A., and PHILLIPS, T.L., 1983, Evidence for an Upper Carboniferous mangrove community, in Teas, H.J., ed., Biology and Ecology of Mangroves: Tasks for Vegetation Science, v. 8, Dr. W. Junk, The Hague, p. 19-30.
36. RYGEL, M.C., and SHIPLEY, B.C., 2005, "Such a section as never was put together before:" Logan, Dawson, Lyell and mid-nineteenth century measurements of the Pennsylvanian Joggins Section of Nova Scotia: Atlantic Geology, v. 41, p. 87- 102.
37. SCHIEBER, J., 2002. Sedimentary pyrite: A window into the microbial past: Geology, v. 30, p. 531-534. (Pubitemid 34829858)
38. SCHOLLE, P.A., and ULMER-SCHOLLE, D.S., 2003, A Color Guide to the Petrography of Carbonate Rocks: AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists) Memoir, v. 77, 474 p.
39. SCOTESE, C.R., and MCKERROW, W.S., 1990, Revised world maps and introduction, in McKerrow, W.S., and Scotese, C.R., eds., Palaeozoic Palaeogeography and Biogeography: Geological Society of London Memoirs, v. 12, p. 1-21.
40. SKILLITER, D.M., 2001, Distal marine influence in the Forty Brine Section, Joggins, Nova Scotia, Canada: Unpublished M.S. thesis, Boston College, Boston, 96 p.
41. TIBERT, N.E., and DEWEY, C.P., 2006, Velatomorpha, a new healdioidean ostracode genus from the early Pennsylvanian Joggins Formation, Nova Scotia, Canada: Micropaleontology, v. 52, p. 51-66. (Pubitemid 44122363)
42. TUCKER, M.E., and WRIGHT, V.P., 1990, Carbonate Sedimentology: Blackwell Scientific Publications, London, 482 p.
43. UTTING, J., GILES, P.S., and DOLBY, G., 2010, Palynostratigraphy of Mississippian and Pennsylvanian rocks, Joggins area, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Canada: Palynology, v. 34, p. 43-89.
44. WILSON, J.L., 1975, Carbonate Facies in Geologic History: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 470 p.
45. WILSON, M.A., and PALMER, T.J., 1992, Hardgrounds and hardground faunas: University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Institute of Earth Studies Publications, v. 9, p. 1-131.
46. ZIEGLER, P.A., 1988, Evolution of the Arctic-North Atlantic and the Western Tethys: A visual presentation of a series of paleogeographic- paleotectonic maps: AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists) Memoir, v. 43, p. 164-196.