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SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY
Volume 152, Issue 1-2, Pages 19-28Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(02)00260-9
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cretaceous; Tethys sea; Arabia; sea-level changes; carbonate rocks
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Carbonate platform tops are reliable but incomplete recorders of past sea-level fluctuations as they are riddled with hiatuses of various durations. Basinal sections represent a more complete record but fail to register regressive-transgressive events with small to moderate amplitudes. We seek to avoid these problems by combining information on past sea-level fluctuations from coeval platform top, slope and basinal sections. The outcome of this study is a semiquantitative Albian sea-level curve from the southern Tethyan margin in Oman. In subaerial exposure surfaces, the northern Oman margin recorded 4 high-amplitude ( similar to 50 m); 6 intermediate-amplitude ( similar to 30 m); and 26 low-amplitude ( similar to 10 m) regressive-transgressive cycles. Hiatuses that cap the platform top depositional sequences might account for between 30% to 70% of the cycle duration. The resulting platform top depositional sequences have frequencies in the order of 230 +/- 20 kyr; i.e. they are in the time range of orbital eccentricity cycles. It appears that at least some of these Albian regressive-transgressive cycles were rapid and punctuated, as opposed to sinus-shaped Milankovitchian sea-level oscillations. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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