IMPACT OF CRETACEOUS SEA-LEVEL RISE AND ANOXIC EVENTS ON THE MESOZOIC CARBONATE PLATFORM OF YUGOSLAVIA

Journal article

The Adriatic/Dinaric carbonate platform of Yugoslavia was influenced by rapid sea level rise and an oceanic anoxic event during the Cenomanian-Turonian. Open-marine biota associated with and bracketed by successions of typical shallow-water carbonates, indicate partial drowning of substantial areas of the platform during this time. The presence of carbon-rich and fish-bearing platy limestones, commonly cherty, as an associated coeval facies indicates the development of anoxic or euxinic environments. It is suggested that an extensive column of deoxygenated water developed in the neighboring Marche-Umbrian-Adriatic deep-water basin and was carried on to the carbonate platform during the Cenomanian-Turonian transgression. -from Author

Authors: Jenkyns, H

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: AAPG BULLETIN-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS
• Volume: 75
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1007-1017
• Publication date: 1991-06-01
• ISSN: 0149-1423
• Language: English