Jurassic cyclostratigraphy: recent advances, implications and problems

• Autorzy: Coe, A. , Weedon, G.
• Konferencja: International Congress on the Jurassic System (7 ; 06-18.09.2006 ; Kraków, Poland)
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

About 70% of the Jurassic is now covered by floating astronomical timescales based on the recognition of Milankovitch cycles. Astronomical timescales provide the highest resolution robust timescales over the tens of thousands to millions and even tens of millions of year timescales. This presentation will provide a summary of the status of the Jurassic astronomical timescale, including the outstanding problems and possible solutions. The oldest sea-floor magnetic anomaly pattern is Callovian. For earlier stages the scaling for the Geological Timescale 2004 (Gradstein et al. 2004), other than minimum estimates from direct counts of stratigraphic cycles, relied on a combination of c. 20 radiometric dates, the number of ammonite subzones and an assumption that the rate of change of seawater 87Sr/86Sr ratio for the Early Jurassic was linear over intervals of millions of years. However, this assumption has recently been questioned and thus there is an additional need to improve the cyclostratigraphic and radiometric databases. Cyclostratigraphy for much of the Early Jurassic has been completed using sections in England and the Alps. There is no cyclostratigraphy for the Bajocian and Bathonian. For the Late Jurassic, the existence of a sea-floor magnetic anomaly pattern together with recent and ongoing cyclostratigraphic and magnetostratigraphic studies on the same sections in the UK provide the potential to produce a high-resolution integrated timescale for the Callovian to Tithonian (c. 15 Ma duration). However, construction of the Late Jurassic timescale is complex because of the high number of magnetic reversals, the provincialism of the ammonites used for biostratigraphy and lack of agreement on the stages. Weedon et al. (2004) identified regular cycles in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in England and used these to construct a floating 7.5 Ma astronomical timescale for the latest Oxfordian (as defined in the Tethyan province), Kimmeridgian and most of the Early Tithonian. Comparison of this astronomical timescale with the GTS2004 reveals that the Early Tithonian is c. 1 Ma (25%) longer according to the cyclostratigraphy. This mismatch may be resolved via better correlation of the magnetozones that were defined in France (Tethyan Province) and the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Boreal Province). For the Oxfordian and Callovian a high-resolution magnetostratigraphy based on sections in the UK has recently been compiled. Work is currently being conducted to produce a floating astronomical timescale using exactly the same exposures.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

time scale; astronomical; Milankovitch; magnetostratigraphy; cyclostratigraphy

• Czasopismo: Volumina Jurassica
• Rocznik: 2006
• Tom: Vol. 4, no. 1
• Strony: 156-157
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 2poz.

Twórcy

autor

Coe, A.

autor

Weedon, G.

• Department of Earth Sciences, Centre for Earth, Planetary and Space Research, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK,

Bibliografia

• Gradstein F., Ogg J. G. and Smith A. 2004. A geological timescale 2004, Cambridge University Press.
• Weedon G. P., Coe A. L. and Gallois R. 2004. Cyclostratigraphy, orbital tuning and inferred productivity for the type Kimmeridge Clay (Late Jurassic), Southern England. Journal of the Geological Society, 161: 655-666.