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Ordovician turbidites and black shales of Bennett Island (De Long Islands, Russian Arctic), and their significance for Arctic correlations and palaeogeography. / Danukalova, Maria K.; Kuzmichev, Alexander B.; Sennikov, Nikolai V. et al.
In: Geological Magazine, Vol. 157, No. 8, 01.08.2020, p. 1207-1237.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Ordovician turbidites and black shales of Bennett Island (De Long Islands, Russian Arctic), and their significance for Arctic correlations and palaeogeography
AU - Danukalova, Maria K.
AU - Kuzmichev, Alexander B.
AU - Sennikov, Nikolai V.
AU - Tolmacheva, Tatiana Yu
N1 - Funding Information: This study has been carried out following the plans of the scientific research of the Geological Institute of RAS (for MKD, ABK, project no. 0135-2015-0020) and was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (ABK, MKD, grant nos 19-05-00926 and 14-05-31042; NVS, grant no. 18-0570035). We thank Thomas Hadlari and an anonymous reviewer for their helpful comments. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Cambridge University Press. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/8/1
Y1 - 2020/8/1
N2 - Bennett Island stands alone in a remote part of the Arctic and information on its geology is essential to ascertain relations with other terranes in order to restore the early Palaeozoic Arctic palaeogeography. Lower Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks throughout the island were studied thoroughly for the first time. The Ordovician section (> 1.1 km thick) comprises three units: Tremadocian, lowest Floian black shale (130-140 m); Floian, lower Dapingian carbonate turbidite (> 250 m); and Dapingian, lower Darriwilian siliciclastic turbidite (> 730 m). Ordovician deposits conformably overlie Cambrian rocks deposited within the Siberian shelf, as shown earlier. Most of the Ordovician succession was formed in a deep trough that received carbonate debris from a nearby carbonate platform and silicate material from a distant landmass located to the NE (present coordinates). The Bennett Island Ordovician rocks have much in common with those of both the Central and Northern Taimyr belts. It could be tentatively suggested that both belts merged at their eastern continuation in the vicinity of De Long Islands. The whole system probably extends further eastwards. The Ordovician facies patterns and faunal assemblages in the New Siberian Islands are notably similar to those of northwestern Alaska, where the same lateral transition from turbidites to shelf limestones was reported.
AB - Bennett Island stands alone in a remote part of the Arctic and information on its geology is essential to ascertain relations with other terranes in order to restore the early Palaeozoic Arctic palaeogeography. Lower Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks throughout the island were studied thoroughly for the first time. The Ordovician section (> 1.1 km thick) comprises three units: Tremadocian, lowest Floian black shale (130-140 m); Floian, lower Dapingian carbonate turbidite (> 250 m); and Dapingian, lower Darriwilian siliciclastic turbidite (> 730 m). Ordovician deposits conformably overlie Cambrian rocks deposited within the Siberian shelf, as shown earlier. Most of the Ordovician succession was formed in a deep trough that received carbonate debris from a nearby carbonate platform and silicate material from a distant landmass located to the NE (present coordinates). The Bennett Island Ordovician rocks have much in common with those of both the Central and Northern Taimyr belts. It could be tentatively suggested that both belts merged at their eastern continuation in the vicinity of De Long Islands. The whole system probably extends further eastwards. The Ordovician facies patterns and faunal assemblages in the New Siberian Islands are notably similar to those of northwestern Alaska, where the same lateral transition from turbidites to shelf limestones was reported.
KW - conodonts
KW - depositional environments
KW - early Palaeozoic
KW - graptolites
KW - New Siberian Islands
KW - palaeoreconstructions
KW - Siberia
KW - SERIES
KW - DETRITAL ZIRCON AGES
KW - STAGE
KW - GSSP
KW - NORTHERN
KW - SUCCESSIONS
KW - CONODONTS
KW - SIBERIAN ISLANDS
KW - DEPOSITS
KW - SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85077996754&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S0016756819001341
DO - 10.1017/S0016756819001341
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85077996754
VL - 157
SP - 1207
EP - 1237
JO - Geological Magazine
JF - Geological Magazine
SN - 0016-7568
IS - 8
ER -
ID: 23258937