The sequence stratigraphic development of the subsurface Paleogene, Albemarle Basin, North Carolina, was defined using well cuttings and wireline logs tied into largely published biostratigraphic and available seismic data. Facies include: silty and shelly sands and shell beds (estuarine/lagoon/protected inner shelf facies); clean quartz sands and sandy mollusk-fragment grainstones (shoreface/shallow shelf); phosphatic hardgrounds (current and wave-swept shoreface and shallow shelf); bryozoan and echinoderm grainstones/packstones (storm reworked middle shelf); and fine skeletal wackestones and planktonic marls (slightly storm-winnowed to sub-wave base, deeper shelf). Paleogene deposition on this high-energy, open-shelf was characterized by a distinctive shelf profile of inner shelf and inner shelf break, deep shelf and continental shelf/slope break. The successive positions of terminal supersequence inner-shelf-breaks parallel the modern day continental margin and its onshore arches. Thickness trends were strongly controlled by more rapid subsidence within the Albemarle Basin. The Paleocene supersequence is dominated by deep shelf marl and developed following flooding after the latest Cretaceous low-stand. Major shallowing occurred at the end of the Early Paleocene and near the end of the Late Paleocene. The Eocene supersequence developed following lowstand deposition (evident on seismic) just off the terminal Paleocene depositional shelf break. With flooding, a major transgressive sediment body developed (Pamlico spur), that formed a 50 km wide by 50 m high promontory at the inner shelf break, followed by HST progradation of quartzose and bryozoan-echinoderm open shelf carbonates that filled in the laterally adjacent shelf topography. This was followed by ancestral Gulf Stream incision of the southeast-trending, shallow shelf to the south, and deep shelf further northeast. Late Eocene-Oligocene deposition was initiated with localized lowstand sedimentation off the earlier terminal inner shelf break, followed by thin regional marl deposition and widespread highstand inner shelf, quartz sands and quartzose carbonates. Localized Late Oligocene lowstand deposition occurred along the earlier Oligocene terminal inner shelf break, followed by widespread deposition of quartzose facies over the shallow shelf. Oligocene units on the deep shelf were modified by highstand Gulf Stream scour. / Ph. D.

Cores, quarry exposures, and exploratory wells in the Paleogene Albemarle Basin, North Carolina sample the transition between the southern carbonate and northern siliciclastic provinces of the eastern U.S. continental shelf succession. The study area includes the relatively positive Cape Fear Arch on the Onslow Block to the south, and the slowly subsiding (1.5 cm/ky) Albemarle Block to the north. The Paleogene supersequence set boundary is a hardground on Cretaceous shoreface/shallow-shelf mollusk facies. It is overlain by a thin Paleocene sequence of deeper offshore, glauconitic fine sands to deep marine silt-shale. Five regionally mappable, vertically stacked Eocene sequences are 0 to 30 m thick and contain coastal sands, shoreface sandy-mollusk rudstones, offshore bryozoan grainstone-packstones and subwave base fine wackestone-packstone and marl. The Eocene sequences commonly are bounded by hardgrounds, overlain by thin local lowstand sands and consist of a thin transgressive unit (commonly absent), overlain by an upward shallowing highstand marine succession. On the arch, lowstand and transgressive units may be condensed into lags. The Lower Oligocene succession on the arch has a single marl to fine foram sand dominated sequence whereas downdip, two to three sequences are developed, capped by nearshore sandy molluscan facies. The Upper Oligocene is dominated by possibly three sequences composed of basal, thin sands up into variably sandy mollusk rudstone. Sequence development was influenced by differential movement of the basement blocks, coupled with increasing 3rd order eustatic sea level changes during global cooling. This was coupled with swell-wave and current sweeping of the shelf that effectively decreased available accommodation by 20 to 30 m, and generated the distinctive hardgrounds on sequence boundaries, and variable development of lowstand and transgressive system tracts. The well developed highstands reflect maximum accommodation allowing deposition of an upward shallowing succession that terminated at the depth of wave abrasion on the open shelf. The sequence stratigraphic development contrasts markedly with that from tropical shelves. / Master of Science

Submitted by Mariana Dornelles Vargas (marianadv) on 2015-03-13T19:36:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Diatomaceas_paleogeno.pdf: 3760429 bytes, checksum: 863f541ab0b7856dbc11ac95b17232fd (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-13T19:36:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Diatomaceas_paleogeno.pdf: 3760429 bytes, checksum: 863f541ab0b7856dbc11ac95b17232fd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Nenhuma / Diatomáceas são excelentes marcadores bioestratigráficos para as Eras Meso-Cenozóicas e são elementos bastante úteis para estudos paleoecológicos e paleoceanográficos. O presente trabalho consiste no estudo das diatomáceas do intervalo Paleógeno do Poço 356 (DSDP Leg 39), o qual foi perfurado na encosta oeste do Alto de São Paulo (margem sudoeste do Platô de São Paulo). As rochas deste local pertencem à porção distal da Bacia de Santos e as rochas deste intervalo Paleógeno pertencem à Formação Marambaia. A despeito das numerosas e diversas diatomáceas presentes, este intervalo foi zonado por seu conteúdo de foraminíferos plantônicos e nanofósseis calcários, mas não por suas diatomáceas. Este estudo procura proporcionar uma definição bioestratigráfica ao conteúdo diatomítico deste intervalo e discutir brevemente suas implicações geológicas e paleontológicas. Em termos taxonômicos, foram encontrados 92 taxa, sendo 29 gêneros, 68 espécies e 19 espécies previamente classificadas como sp., além de 6 formas ontogenéticas variantes de Asterolampra spp. Em termos bioestratigráficos, quatro biozonas de diatomáceas foram identificadas, abrangendo idades do Mesoeoceno ao Neoligoceno. Quatro hiatos foram identificados, dois externos ao intervalo e dois internos. Os resultados aqui alcançados demandam algumas discussões sobre as correlações previamente feitas entre biozonas de foraminíferos plantônicos, nanofósseis calcários e diatomáceas deste intervalo, bem como sobre os padrões sedimentológicos previamente descritos para este intervalo / Diatoms are excellent biostratigraphic markers to Meso-Cenozoic Eras and are a very useful elements to paleoecologic and paleoceanographic studies. The present work is the study of the diatoms from the Paleogene interval of the 356 Hole (DSDP Leg 39) which was drilled at the southwestern slope of Sao Paulo Ridge (Southeastern margin of Sao Paulo Plateau). The rocks of this site belong to distal portions of Santos Basin, and the rocks of this Paleogene interval to the Marambaia Formation. Despite the numerous and diverse diatoms present, this interval was zoned by their planktonic foraminifers and calcareous nannofossils content but not by their diatoms. This study intent provides a biostratigraphical definition to the diatomite content of this interval and briefly discusses their geologic and paleontologic implications. In taxonomic terms, 92 taxa were found with 29 genera, 68 species, 19 species classified as sp., and 6 ontogenetic variants of Asterolampra spp. In biostratigraphic terms, four diatoms biozonas were identified ranging Mesoeocenic to Neoligocenic ages. Four hiatuses were detected, two external to the interval and two internal. The results achieved here require some discussion about the previously correlations made between planktonic foraminifers, calcareous nannofossils and diatoms biozonas of this interval, as well as about the previously sedimentologic patterns described to this interval.

Orientador: Peter Christian Hackspacher / Banca: Antonio Roberto Saad / Banca: Francisco José Fonseca Ferreira / Banca: Gilmar Vital Bueno / Banca: Sandro Guedes de Oliveira / Acomapnah 4 mapas anexos / Resumo: A evolução do Arco de Ponta Grossa relaciona-se aos diversos eventos de reativação da Plataforma Sul-americana no sudeste brasileiro a partir do Cretáceo Inferior. A análise multi-métodos dos traços de fissão em apatita e zircão no eixo central do Arco de Ponta Grossa permitiu identificar períodos de exumação nas seguintes épocas: (1) Cretáceo Inferior (idades de traços de fissão em zircão entre 138 ± 51 Ma e 107 ± 22), relacionado aos processos tectônicos, magmáticos e de exumação do evento de ruptura do Gondwana Sul-Ocidental; (2) Cretáceo Superior (idades de traços de fissão em zircão entre 90 ± 14 Ma e 69 ± 21 Ma; e idades de traços de fissão em apatitas entre 74 ± 14 Ma e 66 ± 2 Ma), relacionado ao alçamento do embasamento cristalino como resposta à uma anomalia térmica causada pela passagem da Pluma de Trindade sob o sudeste brasileiro, e conseqüente geração tectônica de relevo e erosão que forneceu sedimentos para as bacias de Santos e do Paraná; (3) Cretáceo Superior - Paleoceno Inferior, evento tectônico relacionado a um soerguimento regional que resultou no alçamento e erosão das bordas das bacias da Plataforma Sul-americana, em especial a Bacia do Paraná. Este evento também é associado ao tectonismo gerador das bacias do Rifte Continental Sudeste do Brasil, no segmento central; (4) Oligoceno-Mioceno (idades de traços de fissão em apatitas entre 26 ± 3 Ma e 14 ± 2 Ma) há o registro da mais recente reativação das zonas de falha NW, em especial a Zona de Falha de São Jerônimo-Curiúva, associada ao rearranjo do campo de tensões neste período, e conseqüente erosão das porções de rocha, que marca o início da sedimentação no segmento sul do Rifte Continental Sudeste do Brasil, composto pela Bacia de Curitiba, grábens de Guaraqueçaba, Sete Barras e Cananéia; e as formações Pariqüera- Açu e Alexandra... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The evolution of Ponta Grossa Arch is genetically related to the post-rift reactivation of the South American Platform since Early Cretaceous. Apatite and Zircon lowtemperature thermochronology analysis in Ponta Grossa Arch provided the following interpretations: (1) Zircon fission-track ages between 138 ± 51 Ma and 107 ± 22are related to the tectonic, magmatic and exhumation processes occurred during the Gondwana breakup in Early Cretaceous; (2) Zircon fission-track ages between 90 ± 14 Ma and 69 ± 21 Ma, and apatite fission-track ages between 74 ± 14 Ma and 66 ± 2 Ma are evidenced the basement uplift as a response of thermal anomaly induced by Trindade plume since this time, as also evidenced in other areas of SE-Brazil during Late Cretaceous. The resulting highlands were the main source-area for the Coniacian-Maastrichian sediments of the Santos (Santos formation) and Paraná (Bauru Group) basins; (3) Between Late Cretaceous and Early Paleocene, the tectonic processes caused uplift and erosion of the Paleozoic interior basins, specially the Paraná Basin. At this time, preexisting shear zones were reactivated, formed the Continental Rift Basins of SE Brazil and continental sediments were deposited in these basins at the northern part of the study-area during this time; (4) During Oligocene to Miocene, apatite fission-track ages between 26 ± 3 Ma and 14 ± 2 Ma indicate the youngest reactivation of the NE-SW Precambrian shear zones and consequent exhumation of high elevated area. The origin of the Continental Rift Basins of SE Brazil in the study area (Curitiba basin, Guaraqueçaba, Sete Barras and Cananéia Grabens, and Pariquera-Açu and Alexandra formations) is probably related to the movement along NWSE trending fault zones (São Jerônimo-Curiúva Fault Zone). Thermal histories evidenced local and sea base-level stability and peneplanation processes caused dissection in highelevated areas. / Doutor

An integrated micropaleontological, mineralogical and sequence stratigraphical investigation was carried out across the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/P) boundary in the Haymana basin, Turkey. A 29.41 m thick boundary section consisting of limestones and marls was measured and 90 samples were analyzed. Biostratigraphic and chronostratigraphic works are based on the planktonic foraminifera. 64 planktonic species were identified and 5 biozones were established. The biozones are, in ascending order, Planoglobulina acervulinoides zone, Racemiguembelina fructicosa zone, Pseudoguembelina hariaensis zone for the Late Maastrichtian / Guembelitria cretacea (P0) zone and Parvulorugoglobigerina eugubina (P1a) zone for the Early Danian. In order to detect the mineralogical changes across the boundary bulk and clay minerals were analyzed using X-ray diffractometry (XRD). Calcite, quartz,feldspar and the clay minerals composed of smectite (montmorillonite) and chlorite are the main components of the rocks. A decrease in calcite and an increase in the detrital minerals (quartz, feldspar) and the clay minerals were detected in the boundary beds. In order to find out the depositional history of the area a detailed microfacies study was performed and 10 microfacies type were determined. The microfacies types defined correspond to slope to basin environment. Based on microfacies analyses, the sequence stratigraphic framework of the boundary beds was constructed. K/P boundary beds were recorded in the transition of transgressive systems tract to highstand systems tract, coinciding with a maximum flooding surface. These beds show a similar pattern with many other K/P boundary beds in different locations of the world indicating eustatic sealevel variations overprint the tectonic control in the basin.

Le bassin de Paris est considéré comme un exemple typique de bassin intracratonique (sag) affecté par une subsidence thermique long terme. Le Cénozoïque correspond à une période de faible subsidence (épaisseurs inférieures à 350m) et marque la fin du fonctionnement de ce bassin. C'est en outre une période de forte déformation de la plaque européenne, dans un contexte de convergence Afrique-Eurasie et d'ouverture de l'Atlantique Nord caractérisée par des inversions de grabens dans le Nord et l'Est de l'Europe. Si de nombreux hiatus ont été identifiés, les déformations cénozoïques du bassin de Paris, situées sur une croûte à l'équilibre et leur relation aux contraintes en limite de plaque restent méconnues. Cette thèse a pour objectif de recomposer à haute résolution spatiale et temporelle (de l'ordre du million d'années) les géométries sédimentaires 3D et les paléogéographies successives du Paléocène au début de l'Oligocène. Ce travail qui s'appuie sur de nombreuses données biostratigraphiques consiste en une approche couplée de sédimentologie de faciès et de corrélations diagraphiques (500 puits) selon les principes de la stratigraphie séquentielle. Trois ordres de séquences sont définis. Les cycles d'ordre supérieur (4ème et 3ème ordre) enregistrent les variations climato-eustatiques. Cinq séquences de dépôt (2e ordre), limitées par des discontinuités et/ou des réorganisations paléogéographiques sont identifiées : (1) Maastrichtien-Danien ; (2) Thanétien-Yprésien ; (3) Lutétien-Bartonien ; (4) Bartonien-Priabonien terminal et (5) Priabonien terminal-Chattien. Les architectures des séquences (1) à (4) sont contrôlées par des phases de flexures. Après des émersions lors des paroxysmes de flexuration, la relaxation progressive des flexures se traduit tout d'abord par la mise en place de profils pentés et ouverts, puis par des profils de plus en plus plats et confinés associés à une transgression généralisée. Du Thanétien au Bartonien s'observent des flexures d'axe E-W, dont les âges sont compatibles avec les différentes phases de la convergence Ibérie-Eurasie. En outre, une déformation de courte durée à l'Yprésien basal est rattachée à l'ouverture de l'Atlantique Nord. Enfin, une réorientation majeure du bassin possiblement liée au début de la collision Apulie-Eurasie est observée au Priabonien. Ce travail fournit un calage à haute résolution pour la compréhension et la modélisation des déformations intraplaques. Différentes tailles de flexure, de l'ordre de 150 à plus 300 km sont observées traduisant une implication d'épaisseurs plus ou moins importantes de la lithosphère. / The Paris basin is currently considered as a typical example of intracratonic basin (sag) affected by long term thermal subsidence. The Cenozoic is a period a low subsidence (less than 300m thick) and correspond to the end of the Paris basin sedimentation. Moreover, it is a period of strong deformation of the European plate related to Africa Europe convergence and North Atlantic opening, well known through numerous grabens inversions in northern and eastern Europe. While hiatus have been highlighted within Paris Basin sedimentation, cenozoic deformations of this thicker crust basin still poorly known. This thesis aims at recompose high resolution temporal and spatial evolution of 3D sedimentary geometries and palaeogeographies from Thanetian to Lower Oligocene. This work is firstly based on available and newly acquired biostratigraphic data. Facies sedimentolgy and well data correlations based on sequence stratigraphy principles allowed to recompose the basin evolution at 1Ma timescale. 2 orders of sequences were identified. Third order sequences (1My duration) seems to be controlled by climate-eustasy. Five main (2nd order) sequences bounded by unconformities and/or palaeogeographic reorganization are highlighted : (1) Maastrichtian-Danian ; (2) Thanetian-Ypresian ; (3) Lutetian-Bartonian ; (4) Bartonian-top Priabonian et (5) Top Priabonian-Chattian. Sequences 1 to 4 correspond to basin scale flexure which control their architecture. Following emersion during the main flexural phases, flooding start with relatively steep depositional profiles. As flexure progressively relax, flatter depositional profiles take place together with overall transgression. This work yield high resolution constraints for the understanding and thermomechanical modelling of intraplate deformations various lenght of flexures form 150 to 300km and more are identified and traduces different thickness of deformed lithosphere. From Thanetian to Bartonian, successives E-W oriented flexures take place which ages are congruent with the main phases of Iberia-Eurasia convergence. A short term deformation in basal Ypresian is attributed to the onset of North Atlantic opening. Finally major basin-scale reorientation during Priabonian could be linked to the onset of Apulia- Eurasia continental collision.

East Asian Paleogene climates have long been regarded as controlled by the planetary wind system, which might result in a climate pattern with three latitudinally distributed zones. Two humid zones located separately in the north and south were lithologically designated by coals and oil shales, while an arid zone in the middle was represented by red beds and evaporites. Because the middle arid zone was located along ~. 30° N paleolatitude, its presence had been further linked with a then subtropical high. However, this long-standing model has recently been challenged by growing evidence from petrology, sedimentology, paleontology, paleobiogeography, paleoclimatology, and climate modeling. Here we review the primary data from these disciplines and reinterpret their climate significances to revisit the East Asian climate pattern during the Paleogene. Petrologically, while the occurrence of coals and/or oil shales is accepted as an indicator for overall humid climates, that of red beds and/or evaporites is highly equivocal to exclusively indicate perennial arid climates unless their origins are carefully investigated. In reality, generic red beds merely represent an oxidizing environment, not essentially associated with a single specific climate type. Meanwhile evaporites, although typically precipitated in arid environments, may be deposited in either perennial dry or seasonal/monsoonal climates. There is no solid evidence so far to convincingly support that the landscape of the so-called middle arid zone was dominated by desert and/or steppe under a then subtropical high during most of the Paleogene. The plant function type study additionally suggests that the "middle arid zone" appears to be lack of xerophytic vegetation, even though some xerophytic or sclerophyllous plant taxa did sporadically occur. Interestingly, paleozoological data show that the Paleogene mammalian faunas were somewhat equably distributed over East Asia, strongly suggesting the evident absence of a critical biogeographical or climatic barrier stretched across the "middle arid zone" as the planetary wind model implied. In contrast to the planetary wind model, monsoonal or monsoon-like Paleogene climates have been broadly reported from the northern, middle, and southern East Asia, as well as adjacent regions of Russia and Kazakhstan. If only the indicators for humid climates are considered, simply due to the uncertainty of those for perennial arid climates, East Asia must have had a relatively dry region in the continental interior during the late Eocene to Oligocene transition, likely caused by the continentality and/or the rain shadow effect along with the global cooling. The monsoonal interpretation is highly in agreement with the evidence from floras, faunas, basin analyses, and modeling experiments, and well explicates the Paleogene climate distribution and seasonal dynamics of East Asia. However, further studies will be largely needed to verify whether, uniformly according to the modern criteria, the Paleogene climates of the East Asia interior can be accurately attributed to the arid category.

Knowing the taxonomy of unicellular dinoflagellate cysts is important in reconstructing paleoenvironments, paleoclimatology and paleobathymetry. Different dinoflagellates tend to prefer different depths, salinity levels and climate. Species of dinocysts only occur during a certain interval in the geological record and are therefore an important tool for dating sediments. Biostratigraphic research uses age determination of sediments depending on first and last occurrences of different species, or co-occurrences of several species. However, it can be rather time consuming and difficult to identify dinoflagellate cysts for people that are not experts in this field. In an attempt to resolve this, a database was created for 145 genera of dinoflagellate cysts existing during Palaeocene and Eocene in the online accessible program Xper3. Morphological criteria or “descriptors” were added along with describing “states”. The number ofmorphological descriptors chosen were 13, with 3 to 15 states for each descriptor.Each genus was described in a matrix and was given one or more unique states for each descriptor, which were defined from the literature by original morphological descriptions of dinocyst genera and photographs of holotypes. A morphological identification key was automatically created in Xper3 from this database, which enabled identification of genera by choosing unique states that were visible for the dinocysts being analysed.A test using photographs with different levels of preservation of dinoflagellate cysts of Eocene age of Aquitaine basin was undertaken in order to assess the reliability of the morphological identification key. The aim was also to see which morphological criteria were more common and how many descriptors and states were needed to reach an end-result of 5 remaining genera, including the correct genus.Errors that were caused in the identification key were immediately reviewed and re-tested. In 38 of 43 tries, a maximum of five genera were remaining, with the correct genus included. This confirmed that the identification key worked relatively well.Another test demonstrated how the identification key worked for identifying dinocysts with an optical microscope in unknown samples, which are photographed and published in the present report, along with data showing how many descriptors and states were used, remaining genera and which states were chosen for each genus.In general, only 1-8 descriptors were necessary and 5 the most common number used. The morphological character (state) “type of ornamentation” was the most widely used followed by “distribution of ornamentation”, “shape of the cyst” and “size of the ornamentation”. However, the archeopyle (excystment opening), was not always visible in the dinocysts, but is still considered a key morphological descriptor. / Dinoflagellater är en typ av mikroskopiska plankton som kan bilda så kallade cystor eller vilosporer för att skydda sig vid kritiska miljöförändringar. Dessa cystor kan ligga vilandes i sediment under en längre tid. Det är också dessa cystor som bevaras som fossil. Eftersom det finns en sådan hög mångfald av dinoflagellatcystor i fossila sediment, liksom att de mikroskopiska, existerar över stora delar av jorden samt att de har en snabb evolution, så används de ofta till att datera sediment inom biostratigrafi.För att kunna datera sediment med hjälp av dinoflagellatcystor, krävs det att man kan identifiera de olika arterna och veta i vilken tidsålder de existerade. Att klassificera dinoflagellatcystor kan därför vara mycket svårt och ta en hel del tid om man inte är någon expert. I denna studie har därför en databas och identifieringsnyckel skapats i ett onlinebaserat dataprogram kallat Xper3. Xper3 är primärt riktat till att hjälpa personer med grundläggande kunskaper i att beskriva utseendemässiga karaktärer hos olika typer av mikrofossil, inklusive dinoflagellatcystor.I denna identifieringsnyckel använde jag mig av 145 olika dinoflagellatsläkten vilka alla existerade någon gång under tidig Paleogen, dvs hela Paleocen och/eller Eocen (66–34 miljoner år sedan). Dessutom användes 13 olika morfologiska beskrivningar ”descriptors” med 3–15 olika svar ”states” per beskrivning.Målet är att få en identifieringsnyckel som unikt kan identifiera olika typer av dinoflagellatcystor på genusnivå, med ett förslag på maximalt fem återstående släkten (genera). Studien undersökte även vilka morfologiska beskrivningar som är mest användbara och hur många olika typer av beskrivningar som behövs för att analysera dinoflagellatcystor.För att testa om identifieringsnyckeln fungerade, användes olika typer av kända och okända dino-flagellatcystor i ett så kallat ”Test 1: Kända dinoflagellatcystor” och ”Test 2: Okända dinoflagellat-cystor.I det första testet, ”Test 1”, grupperades kända dinoflagellatcystor i olika typer av bevarande tillstånd så som ”välbevarade”, ”tveksamt bevarande” och ”väldigt dåligt bevarade” dinoflagellat-cystor. Detta test förde statistik på hur många släkten av förslag som kom upp i slutändan och vilka morfologiska beskrivningar som användes mest och hur många olika beskrivningar som behövdes.Det andra testet, ”Test 2”, undersökte hur denna identifieringsnyckel fungerade att analysera dinoflagellatcystor från okända prover under mikroskop. Fotograferade dinoflagellatcystor presente-rades i denna rapport tillsammans med detaljer på hur de hade identifierats.I de flesta fallen, kunde identifieringsnyckeln ge ett förslag på maximalt fem återstående släkten av dinoflagellatcystor, där det korrekta släktet var ett utav förslaget, vilket tyder på att identifierings-nyckeln fungerar. Den mest använda morfologiska beskrivningen var ”typ av ornament”, och antal morfologiska beskrivningar som behövdes var mellan ett till åtta, där fem var det antal beskrivningar som mest användes i att identifiera dinoflagellatcystor i identifieringsnyckeln.

La distribution stratigraphique des diatomées pyritisées et leur répartition paléogéographique sont étudiées dans les sédiments du Paléocène supérieur et principalement de l’Eocène inférieur des Bassins Danois (Ølst et Hinge), de Dieppe-Hampshire (Saint-Josse et Ailly) et Belge (Knokke). Différents types de fossilisation ont été observés. D’une part, dans un stade précoce de la diagenèse, un moulage du frustule est construit par la croissance de minéraux authigéniques (pyrite et barytine). D’autre part, le frustule siliceux est remplacé épigénitiquement par de la pyrite. Ces deux processus de fossilisation, pouvant coexister, gardent les diatomées identifiables. Une méthodologie fiable et reproductible pour l’extraction de ces dernières a été mise en point. Une évolution des zones de diatomées (zonation) est mise en évidence : quatre zones (D0 à D3) d’association ou d’abondance et deux sous-zones (D3a et D3b) sont reconnues. Cette zonation est établie pour les bassins méridionaux et orientaux du Bassin de la Mer du Nord. Elle est corrélable avec les biozonations de King (1983), Fenner (1985), Mudge & Copestake (1992a) et Mitlehner (1994, 1996) valables pour la partie centrale du Bassin de la Mer du Nord. Les zones D0 à D3 autorisent les corrélations entre les unités lithostratigraphiques des différents bassins étudiés et celui de la Mer du Nord. Cela a permis, entre autres, de corréler les sédiments des faciès sparnaciens du Bassin de Dieppe-Hampshire aux formations de la Mer du Nord. Enfin, les diatomées pyritisées sont un nouvel argument pour encadrer la position de la C.I.E. (dont la base est le critère de reconnaissance de la limite Paléocène-Eocène), celle-ci étant située dans la partie inférieure de la zone D1 sous le pic d’abondance de l’espèce Coscinodiscus morsianus var. moelleri. / The stratigraphic distribution of the pyritized diatoms and their paleogeographic repartition are studied in Upper Paleocene and especially Lower Eocene from the Danish (Ølst Hinge), Dieppe-Hampshire (Saint-Josse and Ailly) and Belgian (Knokke) Basins. Different kinds of fossilisation are observed. In a first step of the diagenesis, a mould of the frustule is built thanks to the growth of authigenic minerals (pyrite and barite). The siliceous skeleton may also be completely replaced epigenetically by pyrite. These two types of fossilisation, that may coexist, keep diatoms identifiable. A reliable and reproducible methodology for the extraction of pyritized diatoms has been developed. The evolution of the diatom zones is underlined : four zones (D0 until D3) of association or abundance are recognized. This zonation is established for the southern and eastern basins of the North Sea Basin. It is interrelated with the biozonations of King (1983), Fenner (1985), Mudge & Copestake (1992a) and Mitlehner (1994, 1996) valid for the central part of the North Sea Basin. The zones D0-D3 allow correlations between the lithostratigraphic units of the various studied basins and the one of the North Sea. This enables among others to correlate the sediments of the sparnacien facies of the Dieppe-Hampshire with the formations of the North Sea. At last, the pyritized diatoms represent a new argument to locate the C.I.E. which base is the criterion for the identification of the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. The C.I.E. is located in the lower part of the D1 zone under the abundance peak of the Coscinodiscus morsianus var. moelleri species.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-11-19Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:21:56Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 francomagalhaes_aob_dr_rcla.pdf: 5041816 bytes, checksum: 4e36d86919b2c22df4f361432ee24c8f (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / A evolução do Arco de Ponta Grossa relaciona-se aos diversos eventos de reativação da Plataforma Sul-americana no sudeste brasileiro a partir do Cretáceo Inferior. A análise multi-métodos dos traços de fissão em apatita e zircão no eixo central do Arco de Ponta Grossa permitiu identificar períodos de exumação nas seguintes épocas: (1) Cretáceo Inferior (idades de traços de fissão em zircão entre 138 ± 51 Ma e 107 ± 22), relacionado aos processos tectônicos, magmáticos e de exumação do evento de ruptura do Gondwana Sul-Ocidental; (2) Cretáceo Superior (idades de traços de fissão em zircão entre 90 ± 14 Ma e 69 ± 21 Ma; e idades de traços de fissão em apatitas entre 74 ± 14 Ma e 66 ± 2 Ma), relacionado ao alçamento do embasamento cristalino como resposta à uma anomalia térmica causada pela passagem da Pluma de Trindade sob o sudeste brasileiro, e conseqüente geração tectônica de relevo e erosão que forneceu sedimentos para as bacias de Santos e do Paraná; (3) Cretáceo Superior – Paleoceno Inferior, evento tectônico relacionado a um soerguimento regional que resultou no alçamento e erosão das bordas das bacias da Plataforma Sul-americana, em especial a Bacia do Paraná. Este evento também é associado ao tectonismo gerador das bacias do Rifte Continental Sudeste do Brasil, no segmento central; (4) Oligoceno-Mioceno (idades de traços de fissão em apatitas entre 26 ± 3 Ma e 14 ± 2 Ma) há o registro da mais recente reativação das zonas de falha NW, em especial a Zona de Falha de São Jerônimo-Curiúva, associada ao rearranjo do campo de tensões neste período, e conseqüente erosão das porções de rocha, que marca o início da sedimentação no segmento sul do Rifte Continental Sudeste do Brasil, composto pela Bacia de Curitiba, grábens de Guaraqueçaba, Sete Barras e Cananéia; e as formações Pariqüera- Açu e Alexandra... / The evolution of Ponta Grossa Arch is genetically related to the post-rift reactivation of the South American Platform since Early Cretaceous. Apatite and Zircon lowtemperature thermochronology analysis in Ponta Grossa Arch provided the following interpretations: (1) Zircon fission-track ages between 138 ± 51 Ma and 107 ± 22are related to the tectonic, magmatic and exhumation processes occurred during the Gondwana breakup in Early Cretaceous; (2) Zircon fission-track ages between 90 ± 14 Ma and 69 ± 21 Ma, and apatite fission-track ages between 74 ± 14 Ma and 66 ± 2 Ma are evidenced the basement uplift as a response of thermal anomaly induced by Trindade plume since this time, as also evidenced in other areas of SE-Brazil during Late Cretaceous. The resulting highlands were the main source-area for the Coniacian-Maastrichian sediments of the Santos (Santos formation) and Paraná (Bauru Group) basins; (3) Between Late Cretaceous and Early Paleocene, the tectonic processes caused uplift and erosion of the Paleozoic interior basins, specially the Paraná Basin. At this time, preexisting shear zones were reactivated, formed the Continental Rift Basins of SE Brazil and continental sediments were deposited in these basins at the northern part of the study-area during this time; (4) During Oligocene to Miocene, apatite fission-track ages between 26 ± 3 Ma and 14 ± 2 Ma indicate the youngest reactivation of the NE-SW Precambrian shear zones and consequent exhumation of high elevated area. The origin of the Continental Rift Basins of SE Brazil in the study area (Curitiba basin, Guaraqueçaba, Sete Barras and Cananéia Grabens, and Pariquera-Açu and Alexandra formations) is probably related to the movement along NWSE trending fault zones (São Jerônimo-Curiúva Fault Zone). Thermal histories evidenced local and sea base-level stability and peneplanation processes caused dissection in highelevated areas.