[en] The Red Marble of Baelen from the Limbourg area (Vesdre Basin, Eastern Belgium) represents a member of the middle Famennian (late Upper Devonian) Souverain-Pré Formation (Late marginifera conodont Zone). It corresponds to a short-term transgressive event and eustatic rise during the Famennian, interrupting the regressive megasequence on the Condroz shelf in Belgium. It is the only known or at least the only well-documented mid-Famennian carbonate mud mound complex worldwide, after the end-Frasnian mass extinction that wiped out numerous invertebrate taxa.
Disciplines :
Earth sciences & physical geography
Author, co-author :
Dreesen, Roland; Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences > O.D. Earth and History of Life > Geological Survey of Belgium
Vachard, Daniel; Université de Lille 1 > UFR Sciences Terre, UMR CNRS 8198 EvoEcoPaléo
Marion, Jean-Marc ; Université de Liège > Département de géologie > Paleontology/Evolution and Diversity Dynamics Lab (EDDy Lab)
Mottequin, Bernard; Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences > O.D. Earth and History of Life > Palaeobiosphere Evolution/Laboratory of Paleontology
Language :
English
Title :
The Red Marble of Baelen, an exceptional mid-Famennian mud mound complex in a carbonate ramp setting from Eastern Belgium
Publication date :
14 September 2015
Number of pages :
A0
Event name :
IGCP 596-SDS Symposium
Event organizer :
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science (Palaeobiosphere Evolution & Geological Survey of Belgium, ULG (Dept. Géologie, EDDy Lab), Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster
Climate change and Biodiversity patterns in the Mid-paleozoic
Funders :
Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, FNRS, Carmeuse S.A., Université de Liège, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Westfälische Wilhems-Universität Münster, International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) Project 596: Climate change and biodiversity patterns in te Mid-Paleozoic, Subcommissionon Devonian Stratigraphy (SDS)
