Sea-level changes vs. organic productivity as controls on Early and Middle Devonian bioevents: Facies- and gamma-ray based sequence-stratigraphic correlation of the Prague Basin, Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F18%3A00107792" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/18:00107792 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/67985831:_____/18:00482899 RIV/61989592:15310/18:73590894

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818117303089" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818117303089</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.11.009" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.11.009</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Sea-level changes vs. organic productivity as controls on Early and Middle Devonian bioevents: Facies- and gamma-ray based sequence-stratigraphic correlation of the Prague Basin, Czech Republic

Original language description

The Devonian marine stratigraphic record is characterized by a number of bioevents overturns in pelagic and benthic faunal assemblages, which are associated with distinct changes in lithology. The coincidence of litho logic and biotic changes can be explained by the causal link between biotic evolution, carbonate production and relative sea-level changes. To gain insight into the sea-level history of Early and Middle Devonian bioevents (the Lochkovian/Pragian Event, Basal Zlichovian E., Daleje E., and Chotec E.) we carried out a sequence-stratigraphic analysis of carbonate-dominated successions in the Prague Basin (peri-Gondwana), a classic area of Devonian bioevents. The study is based on a basin-wide correlation of facies and field gamma-ray spectrometry (GRS) logs from 18 sections (Lochkovian to Eifelian), supported by element geochemistry and published biostratigraphic and carbon isotope data. Devonian carbonate deposition in the Prague Basin alternated between two end member modes: an oligotrophic, homoclinal ramp (Praha and Daleje-Trebotov Formations) and a mesotrophic, distally steepened ramp (Lochkov, Zlichov, and Chotec Formations). They show contrasting facies, particularly the absence/presence of gravity-flow deposits, allochem composition, U/Th ratios, and geochemical composition (productivity proxies such as P/Al, Si/Al, Zn/Al, TOC and stable carbon isotopes). The mesotrophic systems reflect an increased availability of nutrients on the shelf during the late Lochkovian, early Emsian (Zlichovian), and Eifelian periods when sea surface temperature, pCO(2), and silicate weathering rates ware higher. The oligotrophic systems deposited during the Pragian to-earliest Emsian and late Emsian (Dalejan) periods reflect reversed palaeoclimatic trends. We identified three depositional sequences (DS), DS1 (base of Pragian to early Emsian); DS2 (early Emsian to mid Emsian); and DS3 (mid Emsian to mid Eifelian). These sequences were integrated into a peri-Gondwana relative sea-level curve, which was then compared with the Euramerican sea level curve of Johnson et al. (1985). The bioevents coincided with several sequence stratigraphic surfaces, representing variable limbs of the relative sea-level curve. On the other hand, their conspicuous coincidence with the switching intervals between the colder oligotrophic and warmer mesotrophic modes suggests that organic production linked to global climate was the primary control on biotic overturns, while sea-level fluctuations may have only amplified its effects.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10508 - Physical geography

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA14-18183S" target="_blank" >GA14-18183S: Sequence stratigraphy of Devonian bioevents – sea level changes at the transition from greenhouse to icehouse world</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Global and Planetary Change

ISSN

0921-8181

e-ISSN

1872-6364

Volume of the periodical

160

Issue of the periodical within the volume

JAN

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

75-95

UT code for WoS article

000424186200006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85034820295