Cantalejo, B;
Pickering, KT;
McNiocaill, C;
Bown, P;
Johansen, K;
Grant, M;
(2021)
A revised age-model for the Eocene deep-marine siliciclastic systems, Aínsa Basin, Spanish Pyrenees.
Journal of the Geological Society
, 178
(1)
, Article jgs2019-131. 10.1144/jgs2019-131.
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Abstract
Using new palaeomagnetic and biostratigraphic data, we revise the age-model for the middle Eocene, deep-marine, Aínsa Basin (Spanish Pyrenees), a tectonically active basin formed at a convergent-plate margin. This new age model provides a framework for evaluating the depositional history and sediment accumulation rates. New integrated magneto- and biostratigraphy data identifies two normal and two reverse chrons of the geomagnetic polarity timescale (C21r, C21n, C20r, C20n) and place these Upper Hecho Group deposits in the middle Eocene (Lutetian). Nannofossil analysis identifies a biostratigraphic range from Subzone NP14b in the Gerbe System to Subzone NP15b at the top of the Aínsa System using key, age-diagnostic marker species such as Blackites inflatus, Blackites piriformis and Coccolithus gigas. We also present new nannofossil biostratigraphy from the Lower Hecho Group. This new Aínsa Basin chronostratigraphy enables inter-basinal correlations between the proximal fluvio-deltaic Tremp-Graus Basin and the more distal Jaca Basin, thereby providing a better understanding of the basin evolution.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | A revised age-model for the Eocene deep-marine siliciclastic systems, Aínsa Basin, Spanish Pyrenees |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1144/jgs2019-131 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-131 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Earth Sciences |
URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10109742 |
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