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GEOLOGY
Volume 50, Issue 1, Pages 21-25Publisher
GEOLOGICAL SOC AMER, INC
DOI: 10.1130/G49214.1
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- Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades (MCIU)/Agencia Estatal de Investigacion (AEI)/Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) [PGC2018-093890-BI00]
- Aragonese Government/FEDER (grant DGA group) [E33_ 20R]
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) (FPI grant) [BES-2016077800]
- Basque Coast UNESCO Global Geopark
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Untangling the timing of the environmental effects of Deccan volcanism with respect to the Chicxulub impact is crucial for understanding their contributions to climate change. Through the study of the Zumaia section in Spain, we have established the temporal relationships between Deccan volcanism and major carbon isotope excursions and planktic foraminiferal events during the KPB. We have also found evidence of abrupt environmental change related to Deccan volcanism.
Untangling the timing of the environmental effects of Deccan volcanism with respect to the Chicxulub impact is instrumental to fully assessing the contributions of both to climate change over the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (KPB) interval. Despite recent improvements in radiometric age calibrations, the accuracy of age constraints and correlations is insufficient to resolve the exact mechanisms leading to environmental and climate change in the 1 m.y. across the KPB. We present new high-resolution planktic foraminiferal, geochemical, and geophysical data from the Zumaia section (Spain), calibrated to an updated orbitally tuned age model. We provide a revised chronology for the major carbon isotope excursions (CIEs) and planktic foraminiferal events and test temporal relationships with different models of the eruptive phases of the Deccan Traps. Our data show that the major CIEs near the KPB, i.e., the late Maastrichtian warming event (66.25-66.10 Ma) and the Dan-C2 event (65.8-65.7 Ma), are synchronous with the last and the first 405 k.y. eccentricity maximum of the Maastrichtian and the Danian, respectively, and that the minor Lower C29n event (65.48-65.41 Ma) is well constrained to a short eccentricity maximum. Conversely, we obtained evidence of abrupt environmental change likely related to Deccan volcanism at ca. 65.9 Ma, based on a bloom of opportunistic triserial guembelitriids (Chiloguembelitria). The orbital, isotopic, and paleobiological temporal relationships with Deccan volcanism established here provide new insights into the role of Deccan volcanism in climate and environmental change in the 1 m.y. across the KPB.
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