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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES
Volume 98, Issue 5, Pages 1109-1127Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-008-0307-2
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Middle Miocene; Foraminifera; Stable isotope; Paleoecology; Central Paratethys; Vienna Basin
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- Slovak Grant Agency [VEGA1/2035/05, APVV-51-011305]
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Stable isotope data of the foraminiferal carbonate shells and bulk sediment samples from the Central Paratethys were investigated to contribute to better knowledge of the paleoenvironmental changes in Badenian (Middle Miocene). Five benthic (Uvigerina semiornata, U. aculeata, Ammonia beccarii, Elphidium sp. and Heterolepa dutemplei) and three planktonic taxa (Globigerina bulloides, G. diplostoma and Globigerinoides trilobus), characterising the bottom, intermediate and superficial layers of the water column, were selected from the Vienna Basin (W Slovakia). The foraminiferal fauna and its isotope signal point out to temperature-stratified, nutrient-rich and consequently less-oxygenated marine water during the Middle/Late Badenian. Negative carbon isotope ratios indicate increased input of C-12-enriched organic matter to the bottom of the Vienna Basin. Positive benthic delta O-18 implies that the global cooling tendency recorded in the Middle Miocene has also affected the intramountain Vienna Basin. In this time, the Central Paratethys has been in the process of isolation. Our stable isotope trend suggests that the communication with Mediterranean Sea has been still more or less active on the south of Vienna Basin (Slovak part) in the Late Badenian, whereas the seawater exchange towards north was apparently reduced already during the Middle Badenian.
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