Middle and Late Cretaceous History of the Indian Ocean
By the Late Jurassic the Somali and Mozambique basins opened to form a restricted west Indian Ocean and rifting of fragments from Gondwana formed the Argo Basin to the north. The east Indian Ocean opened during the Early Cretaceous when India separated from Australo-Antarctica to form the Wharton Ba...
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ftunivnebraskali:oai:digitalcommons.unl.edu:geosciencefacpub-1083 2023-11-12T04:05:53+01:00 Middle and Late Cretaceous History of the Indian Ocean Holmes, Mary Anne Watkins, David K. 1992-01-01T08:00:00Z https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/geosciencefacpub/83 unknown DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/geosciencefacpub/83 Papers in the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Earth Sciences text 1992 ftunivnebraskali 2023-10-30T10:33:14Z By the Late Jurassic the Somali and Mozambique basins opened to form a restricted west Indian Ocean and rifting of fragments from Gondwana formed the Argo Basin to the north. The east Indian Ocean opened during the Early Cretaceous when India separated from Australo-Antarctica to form the Wharton Basin where hotspot activity formed the Naturaliste Plateau and Kerguelen Plateau-Broken Ridge (KPBR). By the Albian, east and west Indian Oceans were small arms of the Tethys. Fluvio-deltaic systems developed on continental margins. KPBR was a volcanic archipelago forested by a mild and wet climate-loving climax forest of podocarpaceaen conifers with an understory of tree and seed ferns. Elevated kaolinite at several sites and gibbsite on Kerguelen Plateau further indicate an Albian warming. A mid-Cretaceous marine transgression marked by widespread black shale/radiolarite deposition also brought marine sediment to western Australian basins. The warm climate persisted through the Cenomanian as reefs formed on the southeast margin of India, but began to decline during the Turonian as kaolinite disappeared from southern sites. The Wharton Basin sank to sub-CCD abyssal depths by this time. The western KPBR formed a shallow shelf in a poorly circulated region where thick greensands accumulated over the slowly subsiding Kerguelen Plateau. During the Turonian abundant ash and tuff accumulated at Broken Ridge sites prior to the onset of Ninetyeast Ridge hotspot activity as India drifted northward. A second major Cretaceous transgression occurred in the Santonian and allowed chalk deposition over marginal western Australia. Beginning in the Santonian and persisting into the Paleocene chert-rich nannofossil chalk formed on the elevated plateaus, indicating upwelling. Circulation over KPBR improved and a diverse bryozoan-dominated benthonic fauna and flora developed on KPBR. The mid-Campanian is marked by a nearly ocean-wide disconformity which corresponds to the development of marked provinciality of the calcareous plankton. ... Text Antarc* Antarctica University of Nebraska-Lincoln: DigitalCommons@UNL Antarctic Austral Kerguelen Indian Wharton ENVELOPE(157.817,157.817,-81.050,-81.050) Broken Ridge ENVELOPE(-92.318,-92.318,79.552,79.552) |
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By the Late Jurassic the Somali and Mozambique basins opened to form a restricted west Indian Ocean and rifting of fragments from Gondwana formed the Argo Basin to the north. The east Indian Ocean opened during the Early Cretaceous when India separated from Australo-Antarctica to form the Wharton Basin where hotspot activity formed the Naturaliste Plateau and Kerguelen Plateau-Broken Ridge (KPBR). By the Albian, east and west Indian Oceans were small arms of the Tethys. Fluvio-deltaic systems developed on continental margins. KPBR was a volcanic archipelago forested by a mild and wet climate-loving climax forest of podocarpaceaen conifers with an understory of tree and seed ferns. Elevated kaolinite at several sites and gibbsite on Kerguelen Plateau further indicate an Albian warming. A mid-Cretaceous marine transgression marked by widespread black shale/radiolarite deposition also brought marine sediment to western Australian basins. The warm climate persisted through the Cenomanian as reefs formed on the southeast margin of India, but began to decline during the Turonian as kaolinite disappeared from southern sites. The Wharton Basin sank to sub-CCD abyssal depths by this time. The western KPBR formed a shallow shelf in a poorly circulated region where thick greensands accumulated over the slowly subsiding Kerguelen Plateau. During the Turonian abundant ash and tuff accumulated at Broken Ridge sites prior to the onset of Ninetyeast Ridge hotspot activity as India drifted northward. A second major Cretaceous transgression occurred in the Santonian and allowed chalk deposition over marginal western Australia. Beginning in the Santonian and persisting into the Paleocene chert-rich nannofossil chalk formed on the elevated plateaus, indicating upwelling. Circulation over KPBR improved and a diverse bryozoan-dominated benthonic fauna and flora developed on KPBR. The mid-Campanian is marked by a nearly ocean-wide disconformity which corresponds to the development of marked provinciality of the calcareous plankton. ... |
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Middle and Late Cretaceous History of the Indian Ocean |
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Middle and Late Cretaceous History of the Indian Ocean |
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Middle and Late Cretaceous History of the Indian Ocean |
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Middle and Late Cretaceous History of the Indian Ocean |
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Middle and Late Cretaceous History of the Indian Ocean |
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ENVELOPE(157.817,157.817,-81.050,-81.050) ENVELOPE(-92.318,-92.318,79.552,79.552) |
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