Justyna Smolarek
Lower Wenlock black shales in the northern Holy Cross Mountains, Poland: Sedimentary and geochemical controls on the Ireviken Event in a deep marine setting
Smolarek, Justyna; Trela, Wiesław; Bond, David P. G.; Marynowski, Leszek
Authors
Wiesław Trela
David Bond D.Bond@hull.ac.uk
Palaeoenvironmental Scientist and Schools Liason Officer
Leszek Marynowski
Abstract
The stratigraphic variability and geochemistry of Llandovery/Wenlock (L/W) Series boundary sediments in Poland reveals that hemipelagic sedimentation under an anoxic/euxinic water column was interrupted by low density bottom currents or detached diluted turbid layers that resulted in intermittent seafloor oxygenation. TOC values and inorganic proxies throughout the Wilków 1 borehole section suggest variable redox conditions. U/Mo ratios >1 throughout much of the Aeronian and Telychian Stages, together with an absence of pyrite framboids, suggests oxygenated conditions prevailed. However, elevated TOC near the Aeronian/Telychian boundary, together with increased U/Th and V/(V+Ni) ratios and populations of small pyrite framboids are consistent with the development of dysoxic/anoxic conditions at that time. U/Th, V/Cr and V/(V+Ni) ratios, as well as Uauthig and Mo concentrations suggest that during the Ireviken black shale (IBS) deposition, bottom-water conditions deteriorated from oxic during the Telychian to mostly suboxic/anoxic immediately prior to the L/W boundary, before a brief reoxygenation at the end of the IBS sedimentation in the Sheinwoodian Stage. Rapid fluctuations in U/Mo during the Ireviken Event (IE) are characteristic of fluctuating redox conditions that culminated in an anoxic/euxinic seafloor in the Sheinwoodian. Following IBS deposition, conditions once again became oxygen deficient with the development of a euxinic zone in the water column. The Aeronian to Sheinwoodian deep-water redox history was unstable, and rapid fluctuations of the chemocline across the L/W Series boundary probably contributed to the IE extinctions, which affected mainly pelagic and hemipelagic fauna.
Citation
Smolarek, J., Trela, W., Bond, D. P. G., & Marynowski, L. (2017). Lower Wenlock black shales in the northern Holy Cross Mountains, Poland: Sedimentary and geochemical controls on the Ireviken Event in a deep marine setting. Geological magazine, 154(2), 247-264. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756815001065
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Nov 23, 2015 |
Online Publication Date | Feb 4, 2016 |
Publication Date | Mar 1, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Dec 21, 2015 |
Publicly Available Date | Nov 23, 2017 |
Journal | Geological magazine |
Print ISSN | 0016-7568 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 154 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 247-264 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756815001065 |
Keywords | Irevekin Event; Redox conditions; Inorganic proxies; Pyrite framboids; Silurian |
Public URL | https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/383267 |
Publisher URL | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/geological-magazine/article/lower-wenlock-black-shales-in-the-northern-holy-cross-mountains-poland-sedimentary-and-geochemical-controls-on-the-ireviken-event-in-a-deep-marine-setting/F12E14EB73896AE55BA97FDFFE1FED58 |
Additional Information | This is the author's accepted manuscript of an article published in Geological magazine, 2017, v.154 issue 2. |
Contract Date | Nov 23, 2017 |
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