Object's details: The palaeogeographical background of Late Devonian storm events in the western part of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland)

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Title:
The palaeogeographical background of Late Devonian storm events in the western part of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland)
Creator:
Vierek, Aleksandra
Description:
Late Devonian coarse-grained carbonate deposits in the Holy Cross Mountains were studied for possible storm depositional systems and catastrophic tsunami events, as it must be assumed that the investigated area was strongly affected by tropical hurricanes generated in the open ocean North of Gondwana. This assumption appears consistent with diagnostic features of carbonate tempestites at several places in the Holy Cross Mountains. Sedimentary structures and textures that indicate so are, among other evidence, erosional bases with sole marks, graded units, intra- and bioclasts, different laminations and burrowing at the tops of tempestite layers. It has been suggested before that a tsunami occurred during the Late Devonian, but the Laurussian shelf had an extensional regime at the time, which excludes intensive seismic activity. The shelf environment also excluded the generation of tsunami waves because the depth was too shallow. Additionally, the Holy Cross Mountains region was surrounded in the Devonian by shallow-marine and stable elevated areas: the Nida Platform, the Opatkowice Platform and the Cracow Platform to the South, and the elevated Lublin-Lviv area to the NE. Thus, tsunami energy should have been absorbed by these regions if tsunamites would have occurred.
Object availability:
free access
Rights:
Prawa autorskie (c) 2014 Aleksandra Vierek;
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Date:
2014.01.29
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
Research papers
Language:
English
Source:
Geologos; Vol. 19 No. 4 (2013); 257-272;
Geologos; Tom 19 Nr 4 (2013); 257-272;
2080-6574;
1426-8981
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/logos/article/view/logos-2013-0015/30385
Subject:
carbonate tempestites;
tropical hurricanes;
tsunami;
palaeogeography;
Late Devonian;
Holy Cross Mountains;
Poland
Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/logos/article/view/logos-2013-0015
Data provider:
Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

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