Sedimentary imprints of former ice-sheet margins: Insights from an end-Ordovician archive (SW Libya)
International audience Fromthe Proterozoic to the Quaternary, the evolution of the Earthwas characterised by recurrent periods of glaciation.However, the margins of many ancient ice-sheets are poorly defined on palaeogeographic reconstructions.The extent and outlines of ancient ice sheets can be bet...
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ftanrparis:oai:HAL:insu-01184739v1 2024-09-15T18:12:17+00:00 Sedimentary imprints of former ice-sheet margins: Insights from an end-Ordovician archive (SW Libya) Girard, Flavia Ghienne, Jean-François Du-Bernard, Xavier Rubino, Jean-Loup Géosciences Montpellier Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles (UA) Institut de physique du globe de Strasbourg (IPGS) Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Centre scientifique et Technique Jean Feger (CSTJF) TOTAL FINA ELF ANR-12-BS06-0014,SeqStrat-Ice,Les glaciations du passé: leçons pour un modèle de stratigraphie séquentielle dédié aux systèmes glaciaires(2012) 2015 https://insu.hal.science/insu-01184739 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.06.006 en eng HAL CCSD Elsevier info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.06.006 insu-01184739 https://insu.hal.science/insu-01184739 doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.06.006 ISSN: 0012-8252 Earth-Science Reviews https://insu.hal.science/insu-01184739 Earth-Science Reviews, 2015, pp.259-289. ⟨10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.06.006⟩ Murzuq Basin Hirnantian glaciation Ice front Tunnel valleys Glaciotectonic Supercritical flows [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2015 ftanrparis https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.06.006 2024-07-12T11:37:15Z International audience Fromthe Proterozoic to the Quaternary, the evolution of the Earthwas characterised by recurrent periods of glaciation.However, the margins of many ancient ice-sheets are poorly defined on palaeogeographic reconstructions.The extent and outlines of ancient ice sheets can be better understood through careful documentation ofsediments deposited at the ice-sheet margin. An outstanding example is provided herein based on an end-Ordovician archive in Libya (Tihemboka area, Murzuq Basin). The four sets of structures include: i) subglacialglaciotectonic structures and soft sediment deformations from flowing glacier ice, such as intraformational glacialstriae, intraformational deformation (shear planes, sheath folds), normal microfaults, and large-scaleglaciotectonic folds-and-thrusts; (ii) structures resulting from overpressured subglacial (meltwater) flowssuch as clastic dykes and tunnel valleys; (iii) proglacial depositional structures and facies related to highmagnitudemeltwater floods such as sandstone intraclasts, large-scale bedforms resulting from supercriticalflows, climbing-dune cross-stratification and kettle holes; and (iv) deformation structures resulting from freefloating and nonglacier ice such as ice-keel scours and ice-crystal marks. Such a set of structures points to anice-marginal (essentially continental) depositional setting, and provides an excellent suite of criteria to identifymargins of ancient ice sheets in the stratigraphic record. At a regional scale, a reconstruction through time andspace of the related depositional wedge is proposed. This corresponded to a seismic-scale (N120 m in thickness,40 km in length) ice-marginal wedge in front of an essentially warm-based ice-sheet inducing concomitantlarge-scale glaciotectonic deformation, glacial basin and tunnel valley downcuttings. The related ice-front wasassociated with high-energy meltwater flows feeding a network of deeply incised proglacial channels downstreamand, beyond them, a fluvioglacial deltaic system. Shallow ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice Sheet Portail HAL-ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) Earth-Science Reviews 148 259 289 |
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Murzuq Basin Hirnantian glaciation Ice front Tunnel valleys Glaciotectonic Supercritical flows [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] Girard, Flavia Ghienne, Jean-François Du-Bernard, Xavier Rubino, Jean-Loup Sedimentary imprints of former ice-sheet margins: Insights from an end-Ordovician archive (SW Libya) |
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International audience Fromthe Proterozoic to the Quaternary, the evolution of the Earthwas characterised by recurrent periods of glaciation.However, the margins of many ancient ice-sheets are poorly defined on palaeogeographic reconstructions.The extent and outlines of ancient ice sheets can be better understood through careful documentation ofsediments deposited at the ice-sheet margin. An outstanding example is provided herein based on an end-Ordovician archive in Libya (Tihemboka area, Murzuq Basin). The four sets of structures include: i) subglacialglaciotectonic structures and soft sediment deformations from flowing glacier ice, such as intraformational glacialstriae, intraformational deformation (shear planes, sheath folds), normal microfaults, and large-scaleglaciotectonic folds-and-thrusts; (ii) structures resulting from overpressured subglacial (meltwater) flowssuch as clastic dykes and tunnel valleys; (iii) proglacial depositional structures and facies related to highmagnitudemeltwater floods such as sandstone intraclasts, large-scale bedforms resulting from supercriticalflows, climbing-dune cross-stratification and kettle holes; and (iv) deformation structures resulting from freefloating and nonglacier ice such as ice-keel scours and ice-crystal marks. Such a set of structures points to anice-marginal (essentially continental) depositional setting, and provides an excellent suite of criteria to identifymargins of ancient ice sheets in the stratigraphic record. At a regional scale, a reconstruction through time andspace of the related depositional wedge is proposed. This corresponded to a seismic-scale (N120 m in thickness,40 km in length) ice-marginal wedge in front of an essentially warm-based ice-sheet inducing concomitantlarge-scale glaciotectonic deformation, glacial basin and tunnel valley downcuttings. The related ice-front wasassociated with high-energy meltwater flows feeding a network of deeply incised proglacial channels downstreamand, beyond them, a fluvioglacial deltaic system. Shallow ... |
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Géosciences Montpellier Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles (UA) Institut de physique du globe de Strasbourg (IPGS) Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Centre scientifique et Technique Jean Feger (CSTJF) TOTAL FINA ELF ANR-12-BS06-0014,SeqStrat-Ice,Les glaciations du passé: leçons pour un modèle de stratigraphie séquentielle dédié aux systèmes glaciaires(2012) |
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Sedimentary imprints of former ice-sheet margins: Insights from an end-Ordovician archive (SW Libya) |
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Sedimentary imprints of former ice-sheet margins: Insights from an end-Ordovician archive (SW Libya) |
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Sedimentary imprints of former ice-sheet margins: Insights from an end-Ordovician archive (SW Libya) |
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