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Detrital zircon populations in Ediacaran Period sediments distinguish active from passive continent margins even when metamorphosed and help resolve the Gondwana-Panotia supercontinent/megacontinent argument

Crow Michael, Zaw Khin, Thu Kyaw, Belousov Ivan, Goemann Karsten

Geotourism / Geoturystyka

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2023

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nr 1-2 (72-73)

16--17

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Great thicknesses of sand and greywacke were deposited on the margins of megacontinents during the Ediacaran Period (620–542 Ma). Zircon age populations in sediments with long deep-time flat profiles distinguish passive margin sedimentation from shorter humped zircon profiles characteristic of sediments derived from volcanic arcs and their feeder zones in active margins. An example of a single hump detrital profile is given by an Ediacaran Period volcano present in the Charnian Supergroup in the Anglo-Brabant Massif of the East Avalonia terrane. This Gondwana fragment was originally part of the West Africa craton and was subsequently accreted to Laurentia. A volcanic complex with sediments carrying an Ediacaran biota is overlain by Triassic sediments. The main phase of eruption at c. 561 Ma provides a single hump zircon age histogram with a few pre-eruption zircon xenocrysts up to 40 Ma older

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Vestiges of Cambro-Ordovician continental accretion in the Carpathian-Balkan orogen: First evidence of the ‘Cenerian’ event in the central Serbo-Macedonian Unit

Spahić Darko, Bojić Zoran, Popović Danica, Gaudenyi Tivadar

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2021

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Vol. 71, no. 2

219--247

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In the Balkans, the Serbo-Macedonian Unit (SMU), Serbia, is thrust bounded by the composite Tethyan Vardar Zone and the Carpatho-Balkanides. The SMU actually emerges from beneath the Neoalpine Miocene-Pliocene deposits. Both provenance and geodynamic position of the SMU are poorly known and still debated. This paper reviews the data hitherto published and includes some new field data interpretations. The SMU is composed of a Neoproterozoic-Cambrian high-grade (para- and ortho-) gneiss with peraluminous magmatic arc components (560-470 Ma). The SMU is in the contact with Neoproterozoic upper Ordovician-Carboniferous low-grade metasedimentary succession of an accretionary wedge assembly represented by the Supragetic basement. The SMU basement became folded, sheared and metamorphosed around 490-450 Ma. Paleomagnetic data point to high southern latitudes and a peri-Gondwanan position of the SMU at that time, which concurs with glaciomarine evidence recorded from the upper Ordovician sediments at the base of an accretionary wedge succession. Based on the published data and field survey in the Stalać region, we correlate the SMU with the pre-Mesozoic gneiss terrane exposed in the Strona-Ceneri zone of the Alps. This terrane, identified as the Cenerian orogen of the Alaskan subduction type, developed at an active margin of Gondwana during middle Ordovician times. The SMU basement, with augen and migmatitic gneisses and arc-related peraluminous magmatic bodies, developed at this margin as part of the Cenerian belt or its equivalent. Such an orogenic edifice proved transient and in the earliest Silurian the SMU fragments drifted away being bound for Baltica (amalgamated Moesian microplate and Danubian terrane) to which they became accreted in the Carboniferous and included in the southern European branch of the Variscan orogen (Marginal Dacides/Carpatho-Balkanides). Despite consider-able Variscan and Alpine reworking, the pre-Variscan, Cenerian-type crustal assembly along with an inferred boundary between the magmatic arc and the accretionary wedge, accompanied by back-arc/forearc deposits, are still decipherable in the Western Balkan countries.

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Palaeozoic palaeogeography of the East European Craton (Poland) in the framework of global plate tectonics

Golonka Jan, Porębski Szczepan J., Barmuta Jan, Papiernik Jan, Bębenek Sławomir, Barmuta Maria, Botor Mariusz, Pietsch Kaja, Słomka Tadeusz

Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae

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2019

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Vol. 89, No. 4

381--403

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Global palaeogeographic maps were constructed for eight time intervals in the Palaeozoic. The maps contain information concerning plate tectonics and palaeoenvironment during the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous. The East European Craton belonged to the Palaeozoic Baltica Plate, which originated as a result of disintegration of the supercontinent Pannotia during the early Cambrian. Baltica included part of Poland and adjacent areas northeast of a line that extends between Scania and the Black Sea. This plate was located in the Southern Hemisphere and drifted northward during Early Palaeozoic time. The Early Ordovician was the time of maximum dispersion of continents during the Palaeozoic. Avalonia probably started to drift away from Gondwana and moved towards Baltica during Ordovician time. Between Gondwana, Baltica, Avalonia and Laurentia, a large longitudinal oceanic unit, known as the Rheic Ocean, was formed. Avalonia was probably sutured to Baltica by the end of the Ordovician or in the Early Silurian. This process was dominated by the strike-slip suturing of the two continents, rather than a full-scale continent-continent collision. Silurian was a time of Caledonian orogeny, closing of the Early Palaeozoic oceans, collision of Baltica with Avalonia and Laurentia and the assembly of the supercontinent Laurussia. The Variscan orogeny in Poland was caused by the collision of the Bohemian Massif plates and the Protocarpathian terrane with Laurussia. The Protocarpathian terrane acted as an indentor that caused thrust tectonics in the East European Platform, Holy Cross Mountains and the Lublin area.

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A middle Cambrian (Series 3, Stage 5) microfaunal assemblage from the Torgau-Doberlug Syncline (Central Germany) and its palaeogeographic implications for the configuration of West Gondwana

Atnisha Abubaker

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2019

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Vol. 69, no. 1

1--25

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A microfauna of small shelly fossils (SSF) is reported here for the first time from middle Cambrian (Series 3, Stage 5) subsurface strata of the Torgau-Doberlug Syncline (TDS), Central Germany. Considering that this microfauna is strongly limited and poorly preserved the material is quite abundant and diverse. The assemblage consists of molluscs (pelagiellids, bivalves), coeloscleritophorans (chancelloriids, halkieriids), poriferids, protoconodonts, cambroclaves, hyoliths, brachiopods, and disarticulated echinoderm remains. Additionally, a probable pterobranch hemichordate is noted. The assemblage is dominated by epifaunal suspension feeders from mid- to outer shelf depositional settings. Stratigraphically it represents (together with rare trilobites) the oldest middle Cambrian (Series 3, Stage 5) fauna known from Central Germany and the entire Saxothuringian Zone. Regardless the taphonomic problems related to the SSF occurrence, close palaeobiogeographic relations are indicated with the Mediterranean shelf of West Gondwana (especially with the areas of southwestern Europe and Morocco). The reported microfauna coupled with recent trilobite and palynomorph research supports assumptions that the Cambrian succession in the TDS is by far more complete than hitherto suggested, emphasizing its importance as a region yielding Cambrian rocks in Central Europe.

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Middle Devonian thelodont Australolepis sp. (Thelodonti) from the Skały Formation, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland

Turner S., Ginter M.

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2018

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Vol. 68, no. 3

467--473

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Sparse fish microremains have been found in marine limestones from the Middle Devonian (Givetian) Skały Formation (Sitka Coral-Crinoid Limestone Member and Sierżawy Member), Świętomarz–Śniadka section, Bodzentyn Syncline, Łysogóry Region, northern Holy Cross Mountains, associated with conodonts of the hemiansatus to ansatus zones. Thelodont scales referred here to Australolepis sp. cf. A. seddoni come from near Śniadka village, from samples dated as hemiansatus to rhenanus/varcus zones. This increases the known range for the genus from its original find in Western Australia. The presence of a thelodont in the late Middle Devonian in Poland extends the known distribution of turiniids around the peri-Gondwana shorelines of Palaeotethys.

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Upper Devonian microvertebrates from the Canning Basin, Western Australia

Roelofs B., Playton T., Barham M., Trinajstic K.

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2015

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Vol. 65, no. 1

69--100

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A diverse microvertebrate fauna is described from the Virgin Hills and Napier formations, Bugle Gap Limestone Canning Basin, Western Australia. Measured sections at Horse Spring and Casey Falls (Virgin Hills Formation) and South Oscar Range (Napier Formation) comprise proximal to distal slope carbonates ranging in age from the Late Devonian Frasnian to middle Famennian. A total of 18 chondrichthyan taxa are identified based on teeth, including the first record of Thrinacodus tranquillus, Cladoides wildungensis, Protacrodus serra and Lissodus lusavorichi from the Canning Basin. A new species, Diademodus dominicus sp. nov. is also described and provides the first record of this genus outside of Laurussia. In addition, the upper range of Australolepis seddoni has been extended to Late Devonian conodont Zone 11, making it the youngest known occurrence for this species. The Virgin Hills and Napier formations microvertebrate faunas show close affinities to faunas recovered from other areas of Gondwana, including eastern Australia, Iran, Morocco and South China, which is consistent with known conodont and trilobite faunas of the same age.

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Zapis izotopowy ([delta]^18 O i [delta]^13 C) w wapieniach górnego ordowiku z Mójczy w Górach Świętokrzyskich

Trela W.

Przegląd Geologiczny

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2000

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Vol. 48, nr 8

736-740

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Analiza stabilnych izotopów tlenu i węgla w wapieniach środkowego i górnego ordowiku regionu kieleckiego Gór Świętokrzyskich wskazuje na zmiany ich składu w czasie. Największe wahania (w skali PDB) występują w wyższym ordowiku (górny karadok) i pojawiają się po okresie aktywności prądów wstępujących. Fluktuacje te byty przypuszczalnie spowodowane czynnikami klimatycznymi, kontrolowanymi przez zlodowacenie na Gondwanie, które spowodowały zachwianie stratyfikacji gęstościowej i termicznej oceanów (Wilde & Berry, 1984; Railsback i in., 1990; Wilde, 1991). Wartości [delta]^18O i [delta]^13C są zbliżone do wyników uzyskanych dla kopalnych, chłodno- lub umiarkowanie ciepłowodnych osadów węglanowych oraz mieszczą się w przedziale wartości stwierdzonych przez wielu badaczy dla ordowiku.

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Oxygen and carbon isotopic studies were carried on bulk-rock samples from the Middle and Upper Ordovician limestones taken j'rom the Mójcza section in Kielce Region of the Holy Cross Mts. Measurements of [delta]^18O and [delta]^13C are close to results obtained from ancient temperate- and warm-temperate water carbonates. The greatest changes both [delta]^18O and [delta]^13C are associated with upper part of the Mójcza section (Upper Caradoc) and appear after ceasing of upwelling currents activity. Carbon and oxygen isotopic fluctuations are concurrent with changes in conodont assemblages (Dzik, 1999) and were probably caused by climatic factor, controlled by glaciation on Gondwana.