Slope failure on a Cambrian carbonate platform, mass-flow transitions and resulting complex deposit

• Autorzy: Wang Zhaopeng , Liu Jiaye , Van Loon A. J. (Tom) , Zhu Decheng , Qin Peng , Han Zuozhen

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.7306/gq.1517

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The quiet environment of the carbonate platform in the epeiric sea that existed during the Cambrian between present-day China and Korea was occasionally affected by processes that have hitherto not been described from such a setting. A conglomerate was found in the Middle Cambrian Gushan Formation near Chengouwan (Shandong Province, E China), eroded into the underlying sediments. The conglomerate is explained as a deposit consisting of material that was eroded up-slope when slope-failure took place, resulting in a slump that passed into a high-density debris flow with erosive power that passed, in turn, again into a slump. The slump came to rest when it lost its momentum on a less inclined part of the basin slope. Immediately after deposition, fluidization occurred in the lower part of the slump deposit, as proven by a funnel-shaped water-escape structure and a lateral injection of some metres long of brecciated material.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Gushan Formation; Middle Cambrian; epeiric sea; carbonate platform; mass-flow transitions

• Wydawca: Państwowy Instytut Geologiczny - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy
• Czasopismo: Geological Quarterly
• Rocznik: 2020
• Tom: Vol. 64, No. 1
• Strony: 3--15
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 51 poz., fot., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Wang Zhaopeng

• Shandong University of Science and Technology, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Depositional Mineralization and Sedimentary Minerals, No. 579 Qianwangang Road, Qingdao, Shandong 266590, China

autor

Liu Jiaye

• Shandong University of Science and Technology, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Depositional Mineralization and Sedimentary Minerals, No. 579 Qianwangang Road, Qingdao, Shandong 266590, China

autor

Van Loon A. J. (Tom)

• Shandong University of Science and Technology, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Depositional Mineralization and Sedimentary Minerals, No. 579 Qianwangang Road, Qingdao, Shandong 266590, China

autor

Zhu Decheng

• Key Laboratory of Geological Mineralization Processes of Metals and Resource Utilization in Shandong Province, No. 52 Lishan Road, Jinan 250013, China
• Ministry of Land and Resources of the People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Gold Mineralization Processes and Resources Utilization, No. 52 Lishan Road, Jinan 250013, China

autor

Qin Peng

• Shandong Geological Environmental Monitoring, No. 17 Jishan Road, Jinan 250013, China

autor

Han Zuozhen

• Shandong University of Science and Technology, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Depositional Mineralization and Sedimentary Minerals, No. 579 Qianwangang Road, Qingdao, Shandong 266590, China
• Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Laboratory for Marine Mineral Resources, No. 1 Wenhai Road, Qingdao 266237, China

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