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Insight into the development of a carbonate platform through a multi-disciplinary approach - A case study from the Upper Devonian slope deposits of Mount Freikofel (Carnic Alps, Austria/Italy)
Pas, Damien; Da Silva, Anne-Christine; Suttner, Thomas et al.
2014In International Journal of Earth Sciences, 103, p. 519-538
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Keywords :
Carbonate platform; Cellon-Kellerwand Nappe; Magnetic susceptibility; geochemistry; stable carbon isotope; Mid-Late Devonian
Abstract :
[en] The development and behavior of Million year-scaled depositional sequences recorded within Palaeozoic carbonate platform has remained poorly examined. Therefore, the understanding of palaeoenvironmental changes that occur in geological past is still limited. We herein undertake a multi-disciplinary approach (sedimentology, conodont biostratigraphy, magnetic susceptibility and geochemistry) of a long-term succession in the Carnic Alps which offers new insights into the peculiar evolution of one of the best example of Palaeozoic carbonate platform in Europe. The Freikofel section, located in the central part of the Carnic Alps represents an outstanding succession in a fore-reef setting, extending from the latest Givetian (indet. falsiovalis conodont Zones) to the early Famennian (Lower crepida conodont Zone). Sedimentological analysis allowed to propose a sedimentary model dominated by distal slope and fore-reef slope deposits. The most distal setting is characterized by an autochthonous pelagic sedimentation showing local occurrence of thin-bedded turbiditic deposits. In the fore-reef slope, in a more proximal setting, there is an accumulation of various autochthonous and allochthonous fine- to coarse-grained sediments originated from the interplay of gravity-flow currents derived from the shallow-water and deeper-water area. The temporal evolution of microfacies in the Freikofel section evolves in two main steps corresponding to the Freikofel (Unit 1) and the Pal (Unit 2) Limestones. Distal slope to fore-reef lithologies and associate changes are from base to top of the section: (U1) thick bedded litho- and bioclastic breccia beds with local fining upward sequence and fine-grained mudstone intercalations corresponding, in the fore-reef setting, to the dismantlement of the Eifelian – Frasnian carbonate platform during the early to late Frasnian time (falsiovalis to rhenana superzones) with one of the causes being the Late Givetian major rift pulse; (U2) occurrence of thin-bedded red nodular and cephalopod-bearing limestones with local lithoclastic grainstone intercalations corresponding to a significant deepening of the area and the progressive withdrawal of sedimentary influxes toward the basin, in relation with late Frasnian sea-level rise. Magnetic susceptibility and geochemical analyses were also performed along the Freikofel section and demonstrate the inherent-parallel link existing between variation in magnetic susceptibility values and proxy for terrestrial input. Interpretation of magnetic susceptibility in term of palaeoenvironmental processes reflect that even though distality remains the major parameter influencing magnetic susceptibility values, carbonate production and water agitation also play an important role.
Disciplines :
Earth sciences & physical geography
Author, co-author :
Pas, Damien ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géologie > Pétrologie sédimentaire
Da Silva, Anne-Christine  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géologie > Pétrologie sédimentaire
Suttner, Thomas
Kido, Erika
Bultynck, Pierre
Pondrelli, Monica
Corradini, Carlo
De Vleeschouwer, David
Dojen, Claudia
Boulvain, Frédéric  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géologie > Pétrologie sédimentaire
Language :
English
Title :
Insight into the development of a carbonate platform through a multi-disciplinary approach - A case study from the Upper Devonian slope deposits of Mount Freikofel (Carnic Alps, Austria/Italy)
Publication date :
2014
Journal title :
International Journal of Earth Sciences
ISSN :
1437-3254
eISSN :
1437-3262
Publisher :
Springer, Berlin, Germany
Volume :
103
Pages :
519-538
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Name of the research project :
Grants IGCP 580 and NAP0017 (DP, ACDS), the FWF P 23775-B17 (TS and EK)
Funders :
FWO - Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen [BE]
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