Stratigraphic evolution of the North Levant Platform (Syria) during Aptian to Early Turonian
The Levant margin includes the easternmost part of the Eastern Mediterranean in a region where the oceanic (Tethyan) plates and the Arabian, African and Eurasian crustal plates interact. The tectonic events in relation with these plate deformations resulted in the division of the Levant into several...
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ftsubbremen:oai:media.suub.uni-bremen.de:Publications/elib/399 2023-05-15T18:00:46+02:00 Stratigraphic evolution of the North Levant Platform (Syria) during Aptian to Early Turonian Stratigraphische Entwicklung des Nord Levant Platform (Syrien) während der aptianischen bis zur frühen Turonzeit Ghanem, Hussam Kuss, Hans-Joachim Henrich, Rüdiger Lehmann, Jens 2012-11-02 application/pdf https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/handle/elib/399 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00102846-17 eng eng Universität Bremen FB5 Geowissenschaften https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/handle/elib/399 urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00102846-17 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Syria Levant Stratigraphy Palmyrides Coastal Range Aptian Albian Cenomanian 550 550 Earth sciences and geology ddc:550 Dissertation doctoralThesis 2012 ftsubbremen 2022-11-09T07:09:21Z The Levant margin includes the easternmost part of the Eastern Mediterranean in a region where the oceanic (Tethyan) plates and the Arabian, African and Eurasian crustal plates interact. The tectonic events in relation with these plate deformations resulted in the division of the Levant into several provinces; the Southern, the Middle and the Northern. The studied area forms the Northern part of the Levant Platform. The combination of relative sea changes, tectonics, volcanism and local, regional and global environmental perturbations in the North Levant left imprints on the Aptian - Early Turonian carbonate platform configuration and depositional settings. The latter are reconstructed within a nimproved stratigraphic framework, based on field observations, high resolution biostratigraphy, geochemical analysis, detailed microfacies distribution and sequence stratigraphy. The Aptian Early Turonian succession of the North Levant in the South Palmyrides and Coastal Range of Syria represents two different depositional environments of the intra platform rifting basin (Palmyrides) and passive marginal basin (Coastal Range). Deposition was controlled by terrigenous input and/or nutrition resources, syn-depositional volcanic activity, climatic and sea level change which gives the Aptian and the Albian Early Turonian its characteristic features. A high resolution stratigraphic calibration of the Aptian - Early Turonian strata of the Coastal Range and South Palmyrides are based on the integrated identification of benthonic and planktonic foraminifera, in comparison with carbon isotope signals and (subsurface) logs. The abundant larger benthonic foraminifera in all outcrops of both areas allow to subdivide the Aptian - Early Turonian succession into 7 biozones in the Coastal Range and five in the South Palmyrides. Locally abundant planktonic foraminifera allow the subdivision of the latest Aptian - Cenomanian succession into seven biozones in the South Palmyrides, comparing to seven biozones range from the latest Albian to ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Planktonic foraminifera Media SuUB Bremen (Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen) |
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Syria Levant Stratigraphy Palmyrides Coastal Range Aptian Albian Cenomanian 550 550 Earth sciences and geology ddc:550 Ghanem, Hussam Stratigraphic evolution of the North Levant Platform (Syria) during Aptian to Early Turonian |
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The Levant margin includes the easternmost part of the Eastern Mediterranean in a region where the oceanic (Tethyan) plates and the Arabian, African and Eurasian crustal plates interact. The tectonic events in relation with these plate deformations resulted in the division of the Levant into several provinces; the Southern, the Middle and the Northern. The studied area forms the Northern part of the Levant Platform. The combination of relative sea changes, tectonics, volcanism and local, regional and global environmental perturbations in the North Levant left imprints on the Aptian - Early Turonian carbonate platform configuration and depositional settings. The latter are reconstructed within a nimproved stratigraphic framework, based on field observations, high resolution biostratigraphy, geochemical analysis, detailed microfacies distribution and sequence stratigraphy. The Aptian Early Turonian succession of the North Levant in the South Palmyrides and Coastal Range of Syria represents two different depositional environments of the intra platform rifting basin (Palmyrides) and passive marginal basin (Coastal Range). Deposition was controlled by terrigenous input and/or nutrition resources, syn-depositional volcanic activity, climatic and sea level change which gives the Aptian and the Albian Early Turonian its characteristic features. A high resolution stratigraphic calibration of the Aptian - Early Turonian strata of the Coastal Range and South Palmyrides are based on the integrated identification of benthonic and planktonic foraminifera, in comparison with carbon isotope signals and (subsurface) logs. The abundant larger benthonic foraminifera in all outcrops of both areas allow to subdivide the Aptian - Early Turonian succession into 7 biozones in the Coastal Range and five in the South Palmyrides. Locally abundant planktonic foraminifera allow the subdivision of the latest Aptian - Cenomanian succession into seven biozones in the South Palmyrides, comparing to seven biozones range from the latest Albian to ... |
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Kuss, Hans-Joachim Henrich, Rüdiger Lehmann, Jens |
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Stratigraphic evolution of the North Levant Platform (Syria) during Aptian to Early Turonian |
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Stratigraphic evolution of the North Levant Platform (Syria) during Aptian to Early Turonian |
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Stratigraphic evolution of the North Levant Platform (Syria) during Aptian to Early Turonian |
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Stratigraphic evolution of the North Levant Platform (Syria) during Aptian to Early Turonian |
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Stratigraphic evolution of the North Levant Platform (Syria) during Aptian to Early Turonian |
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stratigraphic evolution of the north levant platform (syria) during aptian to early turonian |
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Universität Bremen |
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