Com base em afloramentos da borda oeste da Bacia do Recôncavo foi efetuada uma análise estratigráfica do intervalo entre as formações Itaparica e Água Grande. Os resultados obtidos foram correlacionados com poços na confecção de seções geológicas no sentido dip e de mapas de espessuras para o intervalo total, arenito e pelito. Os dados de campo mostram os pelitos lacustres da Formação Itaparica sendo sucedidos por um sistema deltaico, que dá lugar a arenitos fluviais e eólicos da Formação Água Grande. Portanto, o perfil composto é caracterizado por uma sucessão progradacional, associada a uma progressiva diminuição da razão da taxa de subida do nível freático versus a taxa de influxo sedimentar. A seção de correlação com poços revela um espessamento do intervalo em direção ao depocentro da bacia. Os mapas gerados apresentam, também, boa relação com os compartimentos estruturais da bacia, além de corroborar com a progradação de um sistema siliciclástico de norte sobre um sistema lacustre a sul. Estes resultados revelam que as unidades estudadas foram depositadas sob controle da geometria do meio-gráben do Recôncavo, nos seus estágios iniciais de formação. / A stratigraphical analysis was performed on the Itaparica and Água Grande formations interval, based on outcrops of the western margin of Recôncavo Basin. The obtained results were correlated with boreholes for dip geologic sections and for isopach and isolith maps generation. The field data shows the Itaparica Formation lacustrine mudstones being succeeded by a deltaic system, which make way for the Água Grande Formation fluvio-eolian sandstones. Then, the composite profile is characterized by a progradational pattern and a drying upwards cycle. The geologic section with field and borehole data reveals the thickening of the interval towards the basin depocenter. Also the generated maps present good correlation with the basin‟s compartments, besides corroborating the progradation of a siliciclastic system coming from north to a lacustrine system at south. So, these results demonstrate that the studied units were deposited under the control of the Recôncavo‟s half-graben geometry, in its initial stages of evolution.

Estudo realizado nas rochas vulcânicas associadas ao estágio pré-evaporítico da Bacia de Campos, a partir de testemunhos de 4 furos de sondagens. Estes litotipos são importantes no contexto da evolução tectônica e estratigráfica da bacia e o objetivo deste trabalho é a caracterização destas rochas a partir da petrografia, litoquímica, química mineral e composição isotópica Sr-Nd. A aplicação das metodologias de estudos convencionais foi dificultada devido ao grau de alteração das rochas marcado por modificações mineralógicas (substituição de minerais por argilominerais, palagonitização do vidro vulcânico, sericitização dos plagioclásios e presença de vesículas), elevado LOI e identificação de sedimentos arenosos englobados pela rocha vulcânica. Para minimizar os efeitos da alteração, empregaram-se metodologias que permitiram avaliar o grau de alteração das amostras e a mobilidade dos elementos químicos na rocha total. Os resultados obtidos estabelecem que as rochas vulcânicas são basaltos originados a partir de magmas com composição subalcalina, toleítica a transicional, baixo TiO2 e alto magnésio. Os ETRs estão em conformidade com o padrão dos basaltos toleíticos baixo TiO2 da Formação Serra Geral e são comparáveis aos E-MORB do Oceano Atlântico. O piroxênio dominante é a augita e quimicamente confirmam que os basaltos pertencem a série subalcalina e transicionais entre a série cálcio-alcalina e toleítica. Isotopicamente estão associados ao componente mantélico EMII e seguem o comportamento dos basaltos da Bacia de Campos com alto potássio. Os parâmetros levantados estabelecem uma correlação das rochas vulcânicas do Andar Alagoas da Bacia de Campos com os basaltos intracontinentais da Bacia do Paraná. / Study of the volcanic rocks associated with the pre-evaporitic stage of the Campos Basin, done from the boring cores of four boreholes. These lithotypes are important in the tectonic and stratigraphic evolution context of the basin and this study aims to characterize these rocks based on petrography, lithochemistry, mineral chemistry and Sr-Nd isotopic composition. The dating performed by the 40Ar/39Ar method in the feldspar minerals proved inadequate. The application of conventional study methodologies was difficult due to the degree of alteration of the rocks, evidenced by mineralogical changes (replacement of minerals by clay minerals, palagonitization of volcanic glass, sericitization of plagioclase and presence of vesicles), high LOI and identification of sandy sediments enclosed by the volcanic rock. In order to minimize the alteration effects, methodologies were used that allowed evaluating the degree of alteration of the samples and chemical element mobility in the whole rock. The results establish that the volcanic rocks are basalts derived from magmas with subalkaline composition, tholeiitic to transitional, low TiO2 and high magnesium. The REE are in conformity with the standard tholeiitic basalts of low TiO2 of the Serra Geral Formation and are comparable with the E-MORB from the Atlantic Ocean. The dominant pyroxene is augite which chemically confirms that the basalts belong to the subalkaline series and the transitional series between the calc-alkaline and tholeiitic series. They are isotopically associated with the mantle component EMII and follow the behavior of the Campos Basin basalts with high potassium. The collected parameters establish a correlation of the volcanic rocks of the Alagoas Stage in the Campos Basin with the intracontinental basalts of the Paraná Basin.

A utilização de técnicas integradas de análise de proveniência sedimentar, incluindo a petrografia quantitativa utilizando o método Gazzi-Dickinson, a análise convencional de minerais pesados, a análise da composição química de granadas (análise varietal) e a geocronologia U-Pb (LAM-ICPMS-MC) em zircão, permitiram a identificação das áreas-fonte e o padrão de suprimento sedimentar dos arenitos de água profunda maastrichtianos que constituem os reservatórios do Campo de Jubarte, Bacia de Campos. Os arenitos são pobremente selecionados, com grãos sub-angulares a angulares, denotando rápido transporte. Apresentam composição original rica em feldspatos (arcósios sensu Folk, 1968) e pobre em fragmentos líticos de textura fina, proveniente de terrenos soerguidos de embasamento (sensu Dickinson, 1985). As assembléias de minerais pesados indicam proveniência a partir de rochas metamórficas de alto e médio grau, derivadas de metapelitos aluminosos metamorfisados em altas temperaturas e pressões baixas a médias, de granitos e subordinadamente de rochas máficas (metabasitos), pertencentes ao Domínio Tectônico Cabo Frio e ao terreno Oriental (domínio Costeiro) do orógeno Ribeira.A direção principal de suprimento sedimentar foi de sudoeste para nordeste, interpretada com base na identificação dos terrenos-fonte com abundante cianita no Domínio Tectônico Cabo Frio. Foi descartado o suprimento de sedimentos provenientes de noroeste, coincidente com a direção estrutural da faixa cataclasada de Colatina. As seqüências de quarta e quinta ordem analisadas não mostram variação na composição essencial, embora apresentem uma variação discreta na razão apatita:turmalina, que por isto apresenta potencial para ser utilizada como correlação entre os corpos de arenito dentro do campo. O índice ZTR baixo, combinado com a ausência de fragmentos metassedimentares e minerais pesados de baixo grau sugerem que ao final do Cretáceo os processos erosivos já haviam removido completamente as rochas supracrustais de baixo grau, expondo os terrenos plutônicos infracrustais. A composição quartzo-feldspática resultante favoreceu a qualidade dos reservatórios. A análise integrada dos dados sugere uma área-fonte tectonicamente ativa, relativamente próxima da bacia, submetida a um soerguimento rápido que permitiu a erosão de grandes volumes de sedimentos sob um regime de intemperismolimitado. Assim que erodidos das rochas-fonte os sedimentos foram transportados desde curtos rios de montanha e/ou leques aluviais rapidamente para águas profundas. A variação de alta freqüência da razão apatita:turmalina indica derivação direta dos arenitos do Campo de Jubarte a partir de um sistema aluvial relativamente próximo. / The application of integrated techniques of provenance analysis, including quantitative petrography using the Gazzi-Dickinson point-counting method, conventional heavy mineral analysis, garnet mineral chemistry and U-Pb zircon geochronology, allowed the identification of source-rocks and the sedimentary supply pattern for the Maastrichtian deep-water reservoir sandstones of the Jubarte Field, Campos Basin. The sandstones are poorly-sorted with angular to sub-angular grains denoting fast transportation. They present a detrital composition rich in feldspars (arkoses sensu Folk, 1968) and poor in finely-crystalline lithic fragments, with provenance from continental blocks of uplifted basement (sensu Dickinson, 1985). The heavy mineral assemblages indicate provenance from high-grade metamorphic rocks, derived from aluminous metapelites metamorphosed at high temperatures and low to medium pressures, from granites and from subordinate mafic rocks (metabasites), belonging to the Cabo Frio Tectonic Domain and the Oriental (Costeiro) terrain of the Ribeira orogen. The main sedimentary supply route during late Cretaceous was from southwest to northeast, indicated mainly by the presence of kyanite in the Cabo Frio Domain source-rocks. A possible dispersal pattern from northwest to southeast, coinciding with the Colatina shear zone, can be discarded. The fourth and fifth-order depositional sequences analyzed show no variation in major composition through time, although displaying a discrete variation of the apatite:tourmaline ratio, which thus present potential to be used as a parameter for sandstone correlation within the field. A low ZTR index coupled to the absence of low-grade heavy minerals and meta-sedimentary rock fragments suggest that at late Cretaceous the erosive processes had already removed the supracrustal, low-grade meta-sedimentary rocks, exposing the infracrustal plutonic terrains. The resulting quartz-feldspathic composition favored the quality of the reservoirs. The integrated analysis of compositional data suggests a tectonically-active source-area located close to the basin, where rapid tectonic uplift produced a large amount of sediments under a weathering-limited regime of erosion. Soon after being eroded from the bedrocks, these sediments were transported from short mountain rivers and/or by alluvial fans, directly to deep-water. The high-frequency variation inapatite:tourmaline ratio support direct derivation of Jubarte sandstones from a relatively proximal alluvial system.

Le Crétacé a été une période d'instabilité climatique et du cycle du carbone, dont le CO2 atmosphérique a été désigné comme le driver majeur. Cependant, les reconstitutions du CO2 atmosphérique ne reflètent ni les dynamiques climatiques ni les grands évènements de perturbation du cycle du carbone décrits pour cette période. J'ai utilisé la composition isotopique de carbone de la plante fossile Frenelopsis (d13Cleaf) comme un nouvel proxy pour reconstituer le CO2 atmosphérique du Crétacé en termes de composition isotopique de carbone (d13CCO2) et de concentration (pCO2). La première courbe de d13CCO2 pour toute la durée du Crétacé a été construite à partir du d13C des carbonates marins. Sa comparaison avec des estimations de d13CCO2 à partir du d13Cleaf a révélé que les modèles développés jusqu'à maintenant ont une tendance à exagérer les valeurs de d13CCO2. Des estimations du fractionnement isotopique du carbone issu par des plantes (13Cleaf) obtenues à partir des nouvelles données d e d13Cleaf et d13CCO2 ont permis de reconstituer l'évolution à grande échelle de la pCO2. Ces résultats indiquent que le CO2 a probablement été une conséquence à long terme du changement climatique durant le Crétacé. Des cycles de d13CCO2 de ~1.2, ~2.1, ~5.4 et ~10.2 Ma ont été détectés, synchrones à ceux du niveau de la mer et à la cyclicité des paramètres de l'orbite terrestre décrits pour le Mésozoïque. Mes résultats fournissent une nouvelle perspective du système climatique et du cycle du carbone du Crétacé, dominés principalement par les paramètres orbitaux de la Terre et secondairement par des évènements catastrophiques de libération de CO2 d'origine volcanique dans l'atmosphère / The Cretaceous was a period characterized by strongly marked climate change and major carbon cycle instability. Atmospheric CO2 has repeatedly been pointed out as a major agent involved in these changing conditions during the period. However, long-term trends in CO2 described for the Cretaceous are not consistent with those of temperature and the large disturbance events of the carbon cycle described for the period. This raises a double question of whether descriptions of the long-term evolution of atmospheric CO2 made so far are accurate or, if so, atmospheric CO2 was actually a major driver of carbon cycle and climate dynamics as usually stated. In this thesis the close relationship between the carbon isotope composition of plants and atmospheric CO2 is used to address this question. Based on its ecological significance, distribution, morphological features and its excellent preservation, the fossil conifer genus Frenelopsis is proposed as a new plant proxy for climate reconstructions during the Cretaceous. The capacity of carbon isotope compositions of Frenelopsis leaves (d13Cleaf) to reconstruct past atmospheric CO2, with regards to both carbon isotope composition (d13CCO2) and concentration (pCO2), is tested based on materials coming from twelve Cretaceous episodes. To provide a framework to test the capacity of d13Cleaf to reconstruct d13CCO2 and allowing for climate estimates from carbon isotope discrimination by plants (?13Cleaf), a new d13CCO2 curve for the Cretaceous based on carbon isotope compositions of marine carbonates has been constructed. Comparison with d13Cleaf-based d13CCO2 estimates reveals that although d13CCO2 and d13Cleaf values follow consistent trends, models developed so far to estimate d13CCO2 from d13Cleaf tend to exaggerate d13CCO2 trends because of assuming a linear relationship between both values. However, given the hyperbolic relationship between ?13Cleaf and pCO2, by considering an independently-estimated correction factor for pCO2 for a given episode, d13Cleaf values may be a valuable proxy for d13CCO2 reconstructions. ?13Cleaf estimates obtained from d13CCO2 and d13Cleaf values were used to reconstruct the long-term evolution of pCO2. The magnitude of estimated pCO2 values is in accordance with that of the most recent and relevant model- and proxy-based pCO2 reconstructions. However, these new results evidence long-term drawdowns of pCO2 for Cretaceous time intervals in which temperature maxima have been described

The ‘giant’ Tambogrande volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits within the Cretaceous Lancones basin of northwestern Perú are some of the largest Cu-Zn-Au-Ag-bearing massive sulphide deposits known. Limited research has been done on these deposits, hence the ore forming setting in which they developed and the key criteria that permitted such anomalous accumulation of base-metal sulphides are not understood. Based on field relationships in the host volcanic rocks and U-Pb geochronology, the deposits formed during the early stages of arc development in the latest Early Cretaceous and were related to an extensional and arc-rift phase (~105-100 Ma, phase 1). During this time, bimodal, primitive basalt-dominant volcanic rocks were erupted in a relatively deep marginal basin. Phase 1 rhyolite is tholeiitic, M-type, and considered to have formed from relatively high temperature, small batch magmas. The high heat flow and extensional setting extant during the initial stages of arc development were essential components for forming a VMS hydrothermal system. The subsequent phase 2 (~99-91 Ma) volcanic sequence comprises more evolved mafic rocks and similar, but more depleted, felsic rocks erupted in a relatively shallow marine setting. Phase 2 is interpreted to represent late-stage arc volcanism during a waning extensional regime and marked the transition to contractional tectonism. The Tambogrande deposits are particularly unusual amongst the ‘giant’ class of VMS deposits in that deposition largely occurred as seafloor mound-type and not by replacement of existing strata. Paleomorphology of the local depositional setting was defined by seafloor depressions controlled by syn-volcanic faults and rhyolitic volcanism. The depressions were the main controls on distribution and geometry of the deposits and, due to inherently confined hydrothermal venting, enhanced the efficiency of sulphide deposition. Geochemical and radiogenic isotope data indicate that the rhyolites in the VMS deposits were high temperature partial melts of the juvenile arc crust that had inherited the isotopic signatures of continental crust. Moreover, Pb isotope data suggest the metal budget was sourced almost wholly from mafic volcanic strata. Therefore, unlike the implications of many conventional models, the felsic volcanic rocks at Tambogrande are interpreted to have only played a passive role in VMS formation. / Science, Faculty of / Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of / Graduate

L'étude biostratigraphique intégrée des ammonites et des nannofossiles calcaires de trois coupes du SE de la France (Vergol, Courchons et Berrias) a permis de proposer un nouveau schéma de biozonation solide pour l'intervalle Berriasien supérieur – Valanginien inférieur. Cette étude devrait permettre d'appuyer la proposition de la coupe de Vergol comme GSSP de la base du Valanginien. Pour ce qui concerne les ammonites, une exploitation intensive banc par banc et une révision taxonomique de l'ensemble des groupes ont montré un grand renouvellement faunique et ont amené à préciser le schéma zonal. Le Berriasien supérieur est caractérisée dans sa partie haute par une nouvelle zone, la zone à Alpillensis, qui remplace la partie supérieure de la zone à Boisseri sensu Le Hégarat. La zone à Alpillensis est subdivisée en deux sous-zones, à Alpillensis et à Otopeta. Pour le Valanginien inférieur, il a été reconnu la zone à Petransiens, pour laquelle deux nouvelles sous-zones, à Premolicus et à Salinarium, sont proposées, et la zone à Neocomiensiformis. Pour ce qui concerne les nannofossiles calcaires, plusieurs événements caractérisent la limite Berriasien/Valanginien, ainsi qu'un changement important des assemblages mis en évidence par une Analyse en Composante Principale. Ces changements sont liés probablement à une régression globale pendant la zone à Alpillensis suivie par une transgression pendant la zone à Pertransiens. Les Associations Unitaires ont mis en évidence une AU 1 dont le sommet se situe au dessus de la première apparition du nannofossile C. oblongata et de l'ammonite « Thurmanniceras » pertransiens. La succession de ces trois événements (« T. » pertransiens, C. oblongata et sommet de l'AU 1) m'ont amené à proposer l'identification de la limite Berriasien/Valanginien avec la première apparition de « T. » pertransiens / The integrated biostratigraphic study of ammonites and calcareous nannofossils in three sections from SE France (Vergol, Courchons, and Berrias) allowed a solid new biozonation scheme to be proposed here. This study should enable us to strengthen the proposition of the Vergol section as GSSP for the lower boundary of Valanginian. Concerning ammonites, an intensive exploitation bed by bed coupled to a taxonomic revision of all groups have shown a faunal renewal and brought to the proposal of a new zonal scheme. The Upper Berriasian is characterized in its upper part by a new zone, the Alpillensis zone, which replaces the upper part of the Boisseri zone sensu Le Hégarat. The Alpillensis zone is subdivided into two subzones, Alpillensis and Otopeta. For the Lower Valanginian, the Pertransiens (with the introduction of two new subzones, Premolicus and Salinarium) and Neocomiensiformis zones have been recognized. Concerning calcareous nannofossils, many events are recorded across the Berriasian/Valanginian boundary, underlying a major change in the assemblages as indicated by Principal Component Analysis. These changes are very likely linked to sea level changes. In fact, a major regression occurred in the Alpillensis zone, followed by a transgression in the Petransiens zone. Unitary Associations resulted in an UA 1 whose topmost part occurs just above the first occurrences of the nannofossil C. oblongata and of the ammonite « Thurmanniceras » pertransiens. The stratigraphic succession of these three events (namely, the FOs of « T. » pertransiens and of C. oblongata and the top of UA 1) allow us to identify the boundary between the Berriasian and Valanginian in this work with the FO of « T. » pertransiens

The Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation preserves several vertebrate faunas and has the potential of providing critical timing information pertaining to Early Cretaceous dinosaurs and the Sierran magmatic arc. Historically, the Morrison/Cedar Mountain contact and the duration of the unconformity between them have been difficult or impossible to determine because 1) the formations were deposited in similar environments, 2) the basal Cedar Mountain Formation is composed of reworked Morrison Formation, and 3) there are no radiometric ages for the lower Cedar Mountain Formation. A stratigraphic study through central Utah reveals a diagnostic suite of pedogenic and sedimentologic characters across the previously enigmatic boundary. The uppermost Morrison Formation is characterized by redoximorphic paleosol features, including iron concentrations, manganese-coated grains, and intense red-purple-green mottling. Upsection increases in chert-pebble lags and channelized conglomerates within the paleosol section indicate a period of reduced accommodation space in the Tithonian. The paleosols are usually capped by a groundwater or pedogenic carbonate. This unit is consistently present from Green River, Utah to the Utah-Colorado border. The lower Cedar Mountain Formation above this package is a poorly sorted mixture of fine-grained material and sand-gravel sized chert grains. Within a sequence stratigraphic framework, these characters record a terrestrial sequence boundary in the uppermost Morrison Formation and degradational-aggradational systems tracts in the Cedar Mountain Formation. To resolve the lack of age control for the basal Cedar Mountain Formation, a geochronologic zircon study was conducted near the Dalton Wells dinosaur quarry, Moab, Utah. The Dalton Wells quarry, along with numerous other fossil assemblages occurs in the basal Yellowcat Member. Zircons from the Dalton Wells quarry and a correlative eggshell site place the age of this horizon near the Barremian/Aptian boundary at ~124 Ma. Thus, the Yellowcat fauna is time equivalent with the feathered dinosaurs of the Yixian Formation, of Liaoning, China. This age constrains the Morrison/Cedar Mountain unconformity to a period of magmatic quiescence in western North America from 148 Ma-124 Ma. The basal Cedar Mountain age coincides with renewed magmatic activity at ~125 Ma. The Cedar Mountain Formation covers a period of 27 Myr and likely contains numerous small unconformities.

Les hétérogénéités de répartition de la matière organique (MO) du Crétacé de l'océan Atlantique central sont souvent liées à des facteurs d'ordre géodynamique et paléocéanographique. Or, la forte proportion de MO terrestre questionne l'hégémonie de ces mécanismes et appelle à mieux contraindre la dynamique sédimentaire des dépôts associés à cette MO. Par une approche source to sink couplant une étude géochimique de provenance à une étude de bassin à partir de données de subsurface, nous montrons une réorganisation du drainage sur les cratons ouest-africain et guyanais, caractérisée par une extension progressive des bassins versants vers les domaines internes pendant le Crétacé supérieur. En Afrique, ce processus s'accompagne d'un arrêt de la dynamique turbiditique dès le Turonien, et d'une diminution de celle-ci au Guyana Suriname. Dans les deux cas, ces changements ont été défavorables à l'accumulation de matière organique en domaine océanique profond. / The distribution heterogeneities of Cretaceous organic matter (OM) in the Central Atlantic Ocean are often related to geodynamic and paleoceanographic factors. However, the high proportion of terrestrial OM questions the hegemony of these mechanisms and shows the need to better constrain the sedimentary dynamics of organic-rich sediments. Using a source-to-sink approach coupling a geochemical provenance study with a basin study from subsurface data, we show a reorganization of drainage on the West African Craton and the Guyana Shield, characterized by a gradual extension of watersheds to the inner areas during the Upper Cretaceous. In the African deep basin, this process is coeval to a break of the turbiditic sedimentation from the Turonian and to its decrease in the Guyana-Suriname deep basin. In both cases, these changes were unfavorable to the enrichment of OM in the deep oceanic domain of the Central Atlantic.

Global warming and its influence on the environment has become a popular and widespread issue. Nowadays, an analogy of a high latitude ecosystem during the greenhouse type of climate does not exist. The Cretaceous polar ecosystem gave us a unique possibility of understanding these extreme ecosystems and the specific adaptations of organisms to these conditions. Such types of ecosystem are crucial for a better understanding of possible future climate changes. This thesis focusses on the adaptation strategies of land plants during the Late Cretaceous in the Arctic peninsula. The land plants responded to these specific solar conditionals in two different ways: evergreen or deciduous. The fossil material for this study comes from Brandy Bay and Crame Col, James Ross Island, Antarctic. The material was collected in a continuous sequence from Kotic point to Santa Marta Formation (Cenomanian - Companian). A detailed and systematic analysis was performed on five out of fifty-five samples that well represented the studied region and age: Agathoxylon kellerense, Agathoxylon antarcticus, Araucarioxylon chapmanae, Podocarpoxylon multiparenchymatosum and Phoroxylon sp. Based on the detailed study of Agathoxylon kellerense (sample number AN34) wood anatomy and growth rings structure, adaptation strategies were...

The study (MS, diploma thesis) is based on more than 1500 rudist samples from the Upper Cretaceous sediments of localities Písečný vrch and Na Stínadlech (near Teplice). Investigated samples come mainly from the collection of A. H. Fassel and were collected at the end of the 19th century, currently stored in the Regional museum in Teplice and National museum in Prague. The rudist shells were determined by generic and species levels, including five genera and eight species. The stratigraphic age of both localities has been a subject of discussion since the second half of the 19th century. In the recent decades, the opinion on the lower turonian age prevailed. However, five of the eight species present in the studied localities demonstrate the upper cenomanian age of the assemblages, making them probably the oldest known rudist-corals assemblages of its kind. The palaeoecological analysis and the ecological relationships proposal for the studied localities is based on the research in literature on palaeoecology and evolution of the rudists, also presented in the study. Key words: Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Cenomanian - Turonian, rudists, corals, palaeoenvironment, Teplice rhyolite