High-resolution biostratigraphy of sea-level low, biotic extinction, and chaotic sedimentation at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in Alabama, north of the Chicxulub crater

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 307, Issue , 1996, Pages 243-252

  Habib, Daniel ^a   Olsson, Richard K ^b   Liu, Chengjie ^b   Moshkovitz, Shimon ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; PLANKTON;

BENTHIC MACROFAUNA; CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSILS; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DEPOSITED SEDIMENTS; DINOFLAGELLATE CYSTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; MASS EXTINCTION; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA;

SEA LEVEL;

BENTHIC FAUNA; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; EXTINCTION RISK; NANOFOSSIL; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION;

ALABAMA; BAY OF CAMPECHE; BRAGGS; CHICXULUB CRATER; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES; YUCATAN;

EID: 84870795105     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2307-8.243     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Askin, R. A., 1988, The palynological record across the Cretaceous/Tertiary transition on Seymour Island, Antarctica: Geological Society of America Memoir 169, p. 155-162.
2. Askin, R. A., Elliott, D. H., Jacobson, S. R., Kyte, F. T., Li, X., and Zinsmeis-ter, W. J., 1994, Seymour Island: A southern high-latitude record across the K/T boundary, in New developments regarding the K/T event and other catastrophes in Earth history: Houston, Texas, Lunar and Planetary Institute Contribution 825, p. 7-8.
3. Aurisano, R., 1989, Upper Cretaceous dinoflagellate biostratigraphy of the subsurface Atlantic Coastal Plain of New Jersey and Delaware, U.S.A.: Palynology, v. 13, p. 143-179.
4. Bourgeois, J., Hansen, T. A., Wiberg, L., and Kaufmann, E. G., 1988, A tsunami deposit at the Cretaceous Tertiary boundary in Texas: Science, v. 241, p. 567-568.
5. Brinkhuis, H., and Leereveld, H., 1988, Dinoflagellate cysts from the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary sequence of El Kef, northwest Tunisia: Review of Paleobotany and Palynology, v. 56, p. 5-19.
6. Brinkhuis, H., and Zachariasse, W. J., 1988, Dinoflagellate cysts, sea level changes and planktonic foraminifers across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at El Haria, northwest Tunisia: Marine Micropaleontology, v. 13, p. 153-191.
7. Bryan, J. R., and Jones, D. S., 1989, Fabric of Cretaceous-Tertiary marine macrofaunal transitions at Braggs, Alabama: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 69, p. 267-277.
8. DeConinck, J., and Smit, J., 1982, Marine organic-walled microfossils at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Barranco del Gredero: Geologie en Mijnbouw, v. 61, p. 173-178.
9. Donovan, A. D., Baum, G. R., Blechschmidt, G. L., Loutit, T. S., Pflum, C. E., and Vail, P. P., 1988, Sequence stratigraphy setting of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in central Alabama, in Sea level changes - an integrated approach: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication 42, p. 299-307.
10. Drugg, W. S., 1967, Palynology of the Upper Moreno Formation (Late Cretaceous-Paleocene) Escarpado Canyon, California: Palaeontographica, v. 120, B, p. 1-71.
11. Drugg, W. S., 1970, Some new genera, species and combinations of phyto-plankton from the Lower Tertiary of the Gulf Coast, USA, in Ultra microplankton, Proceedings, North American Paleontological Convention, Part G (1969), Chicago: p. 809-843.
12. Edwards, L. E., 1989, Dinoflagellate cysts from Lower Tertiary formations, Haynesville cores, Richmond County, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1489C, p. C1-C12.
13. Edwards, L. E., Goodman, D. K., and Witmer, R. J., 1984, Lower Tertiary (Pamunkey Group) dinoflagellate biostratigraphy, Potomac River area, Virginia and Maryland, in Frederiksen, N. O., and others, eds., Cretaceous and Tertiary stratigraphy, paleontology, and structure, southwestern Maryland and northeastern Virginia: Reston, Virginia, American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Field Trip Volume and Guidebook, p. 137-152.
14. Elliot, D. H., Askin, R. A., Kyte, F. T., and Zinsmeister, W. J., 1994, Iridium and dinocysts at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary on Seymour Island, Antarctica: Implications for the K/T event: Geology, v. 22, p. 675-678.
15. Firth, J. V., 1993a, Dinoflagellate biostratigraphy of the Maastrichtian to Danian interval in the U.S. Geological Survey Albany core, Georgia, U.S.A.: Palynology, v. 11, p. 199-216.
16. Firth, J. V., 1993b, Dinoflagellate assemblages and sea-level fluctuations in the Maastrichtian of southwest Georgia: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 79, p. 179-204.
17. Goodman, D., 1979, Dinoflagellate "communities" from the Lower Eocene Nanjemoy Formation of Maryland, U.S.A.: Palynology, v. 3, p. 169.
18. Gregory, W. A., and Hart, G. F., 1992, Toward a predictive model for the palynologic response to sea-level changes: Palaios, v. 7, p. 3-33.
19. Grigorovich, A. S., 1969, A new genus Carpatella (Dinoflagellata) from Danian-Paleocene deposits of the Carpathians: Paleontologicheskii Sbornik, no. 6, p. 67-72 (in Russian).
20. Habib, D., 1994, Biostratigraphic evidence of the K/T boundary in the eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, north of the Chicxulub crater, in New developments regarding the K/T event and other catastrophes in Earth history: Houston, Texas, Lunar and Planetary Institute Contribution 825, p. 45-46.
21. Habib, D., and Drugg, W. S., 1987, Palynology of sites 603 and 605. Deep Sea Drilling Project, in Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Volume 93: Washington, D.C., National Science Foundation, p. 751-775.
22. Habib, D., and Miller, J. A., 1989, Dinoflagellate species and organic facies evidence of marine transgression and regression in the Atlantic Coastal Plain: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 74, p. 23-47.
23. Habib, D., Moshkovitz, S., and Kramer, C., 1992, Dinoflagellate and calcareous nannofossil response to sea level change in K/T boundary sections: Geology, v. 20, p. 165-168.
24. Hansen, J. M., 1979, A new dinoflagellate zone at the Maastrichtian-Danian boundary in Denmark: Geologiske Undersoegelse Arbog, v. 1978, p. 131-140.
25. Haq, B. U., Hardenbol, J., and Vail, P. R., 1988, Mesozoic and Cenozoic chronostratigraphy and cycles of sea-level change, in Sea level changes: An integrated approach: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication 12, p. 71-108.
26. Hildebrand, A. R., Penfield, G. T., Kring, D. A., Pilkington, M., Camargo, A., Jacobsen, S. B., and Boynton, W. V., 1991, Chicxulub crater: A possible Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary impact crater on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico: Geology, v. 19, p. 867-871.
27. Hultberg, S. U., 1986, Danian dinoflagellate zonation, the C-T boundary and the stratigraphical position of the fish clay in southern Scandinavia: Journal of Micropaleontology, v. 5, p. 37-47.
28. Hultberg, S. U., and Malmgren, B. A., 1986, Dinoflagellate and planktonic for-aminiferal paleobathymetrical indices in the boreal uppermost Cretaceous: Micropaleontology, v. 32, p. 316-323.
29. Jiang, M. J., and Gartner, S., 1986, Calcareous nannofossil succession across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in east-central Texas: Micropaleontology, v. 32, p. 232-255.
30. Krebs, C. J., 1985, Ecology. The experimental analysis of distribution and abundance (third edition): New York, Harper and Row, 800 p.
31. Leckie, D. A., and Singh, C., 1991, Estuarine deposits of the Albian Paddy Member (Peace River Formation) and the lowermost Shattesbury Formation. Alberta, Canada: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 61, p. 835-849.
32. Li, H., and Habib, D., 1996, Dinoflagellate stratigraphy and its response to sea level change in Cenomanian-Turonian sections of the Western Interior of the United States: Palaios, v. 11, p. 15-30.
33. Mancini, E. A., and Tew, B. H., 1992, Paleogene unconformity-bounded depositional sequences of southwest Alabama: Lithofacies systems tracts and sequence boundaries: Alabama Geological Society, 29th Annual Field Trip, Guidebook, 72 p.
34. Mancini, E. A., and Tew, B. H., 1993, Eustasy v. subsidence: Lower Paleocene depositional sequences from southern Alabama, eastern Gulf Coastal Plain: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 105, p. 3-17.
35. McMinn, A., 1991, Recent dinoflagellate cysts from estuaries on the central coast of New South Wales, Australia: Micropaleontology, v. 37, p. 269-287.
36. Morgenroth, P., 1968, Zur kenntnis der dinoflagellaten und hystrichosphaeridien des Danien: Geologisches Jahrbuch, v. 86, p. 533-578.
37. Moshkovitz, S., and Habib, D., 1993, Calcareous nannofossil and dinoflagellate stratigraphy of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Alabama and Georgia: Micropaleontology, v. 39, p. 167-191.
38. Olsson, R. K., and Liu, C., 1993, Controversies on the placement of Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary and the K/P mass extinction of foraminifera: Palaios, v. 8, p. 127-139.
39. Olsson, R. K., Liu, C., Aubry, M-P., and Ehrendorfer, T., 1992, A biostrati-graphically continuous Cretaceous/Paleogene section at Millers Ferry, Alabama: Support for a bolide impact: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 24, p. A28.
40. Pospichal, J. J., 1994, Calcareous nannofossils at the K/T boundary, El Kef: No evidence for stepwise, gradual or sequential extinctions: Geology, v. 22, p. 99-102.
41. Schiøler, P. J., and Wilson, G. J., 1993, Maastrichtian dinoflagellate zonation in the Dan Field, Danish North Sea: Review Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 78, p. 321-351.
42. Smit, J., Roep, T. B., Alvarez, W., Montanari, S., and Claeys, P., 1994, Stratigraphy and sedimentology of K/T clastic beds in Moscow Landing (Alabama) outcrop: Evidence for impact-related earthquakes and tsunamis, in New developments regarding the K/T event and other catastrophes in Earth history: Houston, Texas, Lunar and Planetary Institute Contribution 825, p. 119-120.
43. Stover, L. E., and Evitt, W. R., 1978, Analyses of pre-Pleistocene organic walled dinoflagellates: Stanford University Publications, Geological Sciences, v. 15, 300 p.
44. Traverse, A., and Ginsburg, R. N., 1966, Palynology of the surface sediments of Great Bahama Bank, as related to water movement and sedimentation: Marine Geology, v. 4, p. 417-459.
45. Wall, D., Dale, B., Lohmann, G. P., and Smith, W. K., 1977, The environmental and climatic distribution of dinoflagellate cysts in modern marine sediments from regions in the North and South Atlantic Oceans and adjacent seas: Marine Micropaleontology, v. 2, p. 121-200.