The basal lutetian transgression on the tethyan shelf of the European craton (Adelholzen beds, Eastern Alps, Germany)

Autor(en)
H. Egger, A. Briguglio, F. Rögl, R. Darga
Abstrakt

The middle Eocene Adelholzen beds were deposited on the northern part of the Tethyan shelf of the European Plate. In the Eastern Alps, the Wimmern section near Teisendorf (Germany) is the only known outcrop exposing the basal unconformity of this sequence. The outcrop comprises an 8 m thick condensed transgressive shallow marine succession characterized by glauconite-rich weakly consolidated greensand and mudstone containing abundant larger benthic foraminifera. It spans the lower part of calcareous nannoplankton Zone NP15 (Sub-Zones NP15a and lower part of NP15b), planktonic foraminifera Sub-Zone E7b and Zone E8 partim and the upper part of shallow benthic Zone SBZ13. The landward migration of the paleo-shoreline was not an effect of flexural downbending of the European Plate but can be correlated to the major unconformity at the base of eustatic supercycle TA3. The onset of this sea-level rise was in the latest part of Biochron NP14b and almost coincided with the NP14b/NP15a-boundary.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Paläontologie
Externe Organisation(en)
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHM), Niederösterreichische Landesregierung, Naturkunde-und Mammut-Museum Siegsdorf
Journal
Newsletters on Stratigraphy
Band
46
Seiten
287-301
Anzahl der Seiten
15
ISSN
0078-0421
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1127/0078-0421/2013/0035
Publikationsdatum
10-2013
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
105118 Paläontologie
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 14 – Leben unter Wasser
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/b85eef8a-31a6-4998-a2d5-9f1bc5d79481