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Sedimentary deposits and bioturbation in an Early Cretaceous subarctic stormy greenhouse shelf environment

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ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCES
卷 82, 期 7, 页码 -

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-023-10841-2

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Aptian; Barents Shelf; Carolinefjellet formation; Spitsbergen; Tempestites; Trace fossils

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This study examines the Aptian lower part of the Carolinefjellet Formation in the Norwegian high Arctic using well cores and outcrop sections. It focuses on the deposits and bioturbation structures of an ancient subpolar marine shelf during a period of global greenhouse climate. The study reveals that sedimentation conditions and benthic fauna activity were influenced by harsh Arctic wave climate and base-level changes, including occasional incursions of cold polar water. The research also highlights the impact of seafloor hydraulic regime, oxygenation, wave climate, and relative sea-level changes on the ichnofauna ecology.
This study of the Aptian lower part of the Carolinefjellet Formation in Svalbard, Norwegian high Arctic, is based on well cores and outcrop section in the Adventdalen area of Spitsbergen and reports on the deposits and bioturbation structures of an ancient subpolar marine shelf from a well-known period of global greenhouse climate. The study documents the sedimentation conditions and benthic fauna activity on a warm-water aggrading shelf subject to harsh Arctic wave climate and eurybatic base-level changes, with episodic bottom incursions of cold polar water. Lithofacies associations and 38 observed ichnotaxa represent subenvironments ranging from offshore to lower shoreface and hosting the Cruziana ichnofacies in its distal to proximal expression, with a brief mid-Aptian encroachment of middle shoreface zone with a distal expression of the Skolithos ichnofacies. The ichnofacies are variously impoverished compared to their archetypes. The sediment bioturbation intensity varies, but similar lithofacies associations show a comparable intensity throughout the stratigraphic succession, which indicates an ichnofauna ecology controlled by the seafloor hydraulic regime and oxygenation, and thus mainly by the wave climate and relative sea-level changes. Sandstone tempestites indicate high-frequency storms, commonly exceeding the magnitude of largest modern hurricane events. The study confirms that a change in global climate mode, such as the Early Cretaceous warming, entails extreme weather conditions.

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