NDLI: Filament lumachelle on top of Middle Jurassic oolite limestones: event deposits marking the drowning of a Tethysian carbonate platform (Subbetic, southern Spain)

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Author	Navarro, V. Molina, J. M. Ruiz Ortiz, P. A.
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	Bioclastic accumulations often occur on top of Tethysian carbonate platforms and crinoids are a common constituent of these bioclastic deposits on Lower and Middle Liassic carbonate platforms. In contrast, the relevant literature contains few examples in which the main constituent of the lumachels is thin-shelled bivalves (filaments). This paper presents a study of a filament lumachelle cropping out on top of a Middle Jurassic carbonate platform. The carbonate platform is represented by the Jabalcuz Formation, found in one of the northernmost Subbetic units (south of Jaén city). The lumachelle marks the demise of the carbonate platform and has special features that characterize the drowning phase. This process has been related with the syn-rift extensional tectonics associated to the opening of the Tethys westwards. Stratigraphically, the lumachelle occurs on top of shallow-water oolite limestones (Middle Jurassic) and is overlain by radiolarian-rich pelagic and resedimented deposits (Latest Callovian–Oxfordian). It occurs as a body (about 1.5 km wide and up to 8 m thick) made up entirely of densely packed thin bivalve shells. A remarkable feature of the bivalve shell beds is stromatolite-like crumpled lamination at the outcrop. The observations made at the outcrop scale, by microscope under transmitted light, and by cathodoluminiscence favor a diagenetic origin for this striking structure. Other hypotheses, such as its possible relation with seismicity, cannot be confirmed. The filaments would have filled one of the former basins that originated in relation with syn-rift fault-block tectonics leading to the demise of the carbonate platform. Tectonics was one of the main factors setting in motion a carbonate productivity crisis and the inhibition of a diverse benthic community. Once production failed in the carbonate factory, storms and probably hurricanes as well, swept shell deposits from the shallowest areas of the shallow-water carbonate platform and accumulated them in a coevally formed small half-graben basin. At least three main depositional stages can be differentiated in the fill of this half-graben basin, which was a sediment trap for the accumulation and preservation of the tiny bivalve shells against ebb surges. The massive accumulation of valves, the shortage of micrite around the filaments, outcrop morphology and facies relationships, along with regional geology, are among the arguments supporting this interpretation.
Starting Page	89
Ending Page	102
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01729179
Journal	Facies
Volume Number	55
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	16124820
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2008-09-11
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Crumpled storm deposits Bivalve (filament) accumulations Half-graben Platform drowning Subbetic Southern Spain Ecology Paleontology Geochemistry Biogeosciences Sedimentology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Geology Stratigraphy Paleontology

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