Lochkovian (earliest Devonian) transgressions and regressions along the "Tethyan" margin of Gondwana: A review of lithostratigraphical data

Gondwana Research

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 739-744

  Ruban, Dmitry A ^a  

^a SOUTHERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Eustasy; Gondwana; Lithostratigraphy; Palaeo Tethys; Transgression

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEVONIAN; GONDWANA; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE SOURCE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 80052882077     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2011.03.010     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Bea F., Montero P., Talavera C., Abu Anbar M., Scarrow J.H., Molina J.F., Moreno J.A. The palaeogeographic position of Central Iberia in Gondwana during the Ordovician: evidence from zircon chronology and Nd isotopes. Terra Nova 2010, 22:341-346.
2. Brett C.E., Ferretti A., Histon K., Schönlaub H.P. Silurian sequence stratigraphy of the Carnic Alps, Austria. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2009, 279:1-28.
3. Brice D., Mistiaen B. Le Dévonien: ses subdivisions. Le Strunien un sous-étage du Famennien. Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord 2003, 10:97-109.
4. Catuneanu O. Principles of Sequence Stratigraphy 2006, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
5. Cocks L.R.M., Torsvik T.H. Earth geography from 500 to 400 million years ago: a faunal and paleomagnetic review. Journal of the Geological Society, London 2002, 159:631-644.
6. Collins W.J. Slab pull, mantle convection, and Pangaean assembly and dispersal. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2003, 205:225-237.
7. Conrad C.P., Husson L. Influence of dynamic topography on sea level and its rate of change. Lithosphere 2009, 1:110-120.
8. Crick R.E., Ellwood B.B., Hladil E., El Hassani A., Hrouda F., Chlupáč I. Magnetostratigraphy susceptibility of the Přidolian-Lochkovian (Silurian-Devonian) GSSP (Klonk, Czech Republic) and a coeval sequence in Anti-Atlas Morocco. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2001, 167:73-100.
9. Dojen C. Late Silurian and Early Devonian Beyrichioidea from Gondwana and Perigondwanan terranes and their palaeobiogeographical implications. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France 2009, 180:309-315.
10. Embry A.F. Global sequence boundaries of the Triassic and their identification in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 1997, 45:415-433.
11. Fryda J., Hladil J., Vokurka K. Seawater strontium isotope curve at the Silurian/Devonian boundary: a study of the global Silurian/Devonian boundary stratotype. GeoBios 2002, 35:21-28.
12. Gradstein F.M., Ogg J.G., Smith A.G., Agterberg F.P., Bleeker W., Cooper R.A., Davydov V., Gibbard P., Hinnov L.A., House M.R., Lourens L., Luterbacher H.P., McArthur J., Melchin M.J., Robb L.J., Shergold J., Villeneuve M., Wardlaw B.R., Ali J., Brinkhuis H., Hilgen F.J., Hooker J., Howarth R.J., Knoll A.H., Laskar J., Monechi S., Plumb K.A., Powell J., Raffi I., Rohl U., Sadler P., Sanfilippo A., Schmitz B., Shackleton N.J., Shields G.A., Strauss H., Van Dam J., van Kolfschoten T., Veizer J., Wilson D. A Geologic Time Scale 2004 2004, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
13. Guiraud R., Bosworth W., Thierry J., Delplanque A. Phanerozoic geological evolution of Northern and Central Africa: an overview. Journal of African Earth Sciences 2005, 43:83-143.
14. Hallam A. A review of the broad pattern of Jurassic sea-level changes and their possible causes in the light of current knowledge. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2001, 167:23-37.
15. Haq B.U., Schutter S.R. A chronology of Paleozoic sea-level changes. Science 2008, 322:64-68.
16. Heine C., Müller R.D., Steinberger B., Torsvik T.H. Subsidence in intracontinental basins due to dynamic topography. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 2008, 171:252-264.
17. 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 from oxygen isotopes in apatite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2009, 284:599-609.
18. Johnson M.E. Tracking Silurian eustasy: alignment of empirical evidence or pursuit of deductive reasoning?. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2010, 296:276-284.
19. Johnson J.G., Klapper G., Sandberg C.A. Devonian eustatic fluctuations in Euramerica. Geological Society of America Bulletin 1985, 96:567-587.
20. Kalvoda J., Bábek O. The margins of Laurussia in central and southeast Europe and southwest Asia. Gondwana Research 2010, 17:526-545.
21. 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.
22. Lovell B. A pulse of the planet: regional control of high-frequency changes in relative sea level by mantle convection. Journal of the Geological Society 2010, 167:637-648.
23. Menning M., Alekseev A.S., Chuvashov B.I., Davydov V.I., Devuyst F.-X., Forke H.C., Grunt T.A., Hance L., Heckel P.H., Izokh N.G., Jin Y.-G., Jones P.J., Kotlyar G.V., Kozur H.W., Nemyrowska T.I., Schneider J.W., Wang X.-D., Weddige K., Weyer D., Work D.M. Global time scale and regional stratigraphic reference scales of Central and West Europe, East Europe, Tethys, South China, and North America as used in the Devonian-Carboniferous-Permian Correlation Chart 2003 (DCP 2003). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2006, 240:318-372.
24. Metcalfe I. The ancient Tethys oceans of Asia: how many? How old? How deep? How wide?. UNEAC Asia Papers 1999, 1:1-9.
25. Metcalfe I. Tectonic framework and Phanerozoic evolution of Sundaland. Gondwana Research 2011, 19:3-21.
26. Müller R.D., Sdrolias M., Gaina C., Steinberger B., Heine C. Long-term sea-level fluctuations driven by ocean basin dynamics. Science 2008, 319:1357-1362.
27. Obut A.M., Morozova F.I., Moskalenko T.A., Tchegodajev L.D. Graptolites, conodonts and stratigraphy of the SIlurian, Lower Devonian of the Northern Caucasus 1988, Nauka, Novosibirsk, (in Russian).
28. Ogg J.G., Ogg G., Gradstein F.M. The Concise Geologic Time scale 2008, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
29. Purdy E.G. Comparison of taxonomic diversity, strontium isotope and sea-level patterns. International Journal of Earth Sciences 2008, 97:651-664.
30. Raju, D.S.N. (Compiler), 2007. Stratigraphic Mega Charts for the Indian Subcontinent. International Commission on Stratigraphy.
31. Ruban D.A. Late Paleozoic Transgressions in the Greater Caucasus (Hun Superterrane, Northern Palaeotethys): Global Eustatic Control. Cadernos do Laboratorio Xeolóxico de Laxe 2007, 32:13-24.
32. Ruban D.A. Jurassic transgressions and regressions in the Caucasus (northern Neotethys Ocean) and their influences on the marine biodiversity. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2007, 251:422-436.
33. Ruban D.A. Do new reconstructions clarify the relationships between the Phanerozoic diversity dynamics of marine invertebrates and long-term eustatic trends?. Annales de Paléontologie 2010, 96:51-59.
34. Ruban D.A., Al-Husseini M.I., Iwasaki Y. Review of Middle East Paleozoic Plate Tectonics. GeoArabia 2007, 12:35-56.
35. Ruban D.A., Zorina S.O., Conrad C.P. No global-scale transgressive-regressive cycles in the Thanetian (Paleocene): evidence from interregional correlation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2010, 295:226-235.
36. Ruban D.A., Conrad C.P., van Loon A.J. The challenge of reconstructing the Phanerozoic sea level and the Pacific Basin tectonics. Geologos 2010, 16:235-243.
37. Santosh M., Maruyama S., Yamamoto S. The making and breaking of supercontinents: some speculations based on superplumes, super downwelling and the role of tectosphere. Gondwana Research 2009, 15:324-341.
38. Schönlaub H.P., Histon K. The Palaeozoic Evolution of the Southern Alps. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geologischen Gesellschaft 1999, 92:15-34.
39. Scotese C.R. A continental drift flipbook. Journal of Geology 2004, 112:729-741.
40. Sharland P.R., Archer R., Casey D.M., Davies R.B., Hall S.H., Heward A.P., Horbury A.D., Simmons M.D. Arabian Plate Sequence Stratigraphy. GeoArabia Special Publication 2001, 2:1-371.
41. Simmons M.D., Sharland P.R., Casey D.M., Davies R.B., Sutcliffe O.E. Arabian Plate sequence stratigraphy: potential implications for global chronostratigraphy. GeoArabia 2007, 12:101-130.
42. Slavík L., Hladil J. Lochkovian/Pragian GSSP revisited: evidence about conodont taxa and their stratigraphic distribution. Newsletters on Stratigraphy 2004, 40:137-153.
43. Spina A., Vecoli M. Palynostratigraphy and vegetational changes in the Siluro-Devonian of the Ghadamis Basin, North Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2009, 282:1-18.
44. Stampfli G.M., Borel G.D. A plate tectonic model for the Paleozoic and Mesozoic constrained by dynamic plate boundaries and restored synthetic oceanic isochrons. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2002, 196:17-33.
45. Stoker M.S., Shannon P.M. Editorial. Neogene evolution of the NW European Atlantic margin: results from the STRATAGEM project. Marine and Petroleum Geology 2005, 22:965-968.
46. Carta geologica delle Alpi Carniche 1:25,000 2002, S.E L.C A, Firenze. C. Venturini (Ed.).
47. von Raumer J.F., Stampfli G.M. The birth of the Rheic Ocean-Early Palaeozoic subsidence patterns and subsequent plate tectonic scenarios. Tectonophysics 2008, 461:9-20.
48. Yanev S., Göncüoǧlu M.C., Gedik I., Lakova I., Boncheva I., Sachanski V., Okuyucu C., Özgül N., Timur E., Maliakov Y., Saydam G. Stratigraphy, correlations and palaeogeography of Palaeozoic terranes of Bulgaria and NW Turkey: a review of recent data. Special Publications 2006, 260:51-67. Geological Society, London. A.H.F. Robertson, D. Mountrakis (Eds.).