期刊
CHEMIE DER ERDE-GEOCHEMISTRY
卷 75, 期 1, 页码 133-141出版社
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemer.2014.11.004
关键词
Pedogenic carbonates; Stable isotopes; Mesozoic palaeoenvironment; Tian Shan
资金
- DARIUS Program
- French CNRS-INSU Syster Program
- French-Chinese EGIDE Cai Yuanpei Program
In the Mesozoic-Cenozoic continental deposits of the Tian Shan area, two main levels containing pedogenic carbonates have been identified on both the southern and northern foothills of the range: one in the Upper Jurassic series and one in the Upper Cretaceous-Lower Palaeocene series. In order to reconstruct the palaeoenvironmental and palaeotopographic characteristics of the Tian Shan area during these two periods, we measured the oxygen and carbon isotope composition of these pedogenic carbonates (calcrete and nodules). The stable isotope compositions are homogeneous: most 8180 values are between 21 and 25% and most delta C-13 values are between -4 and -6%.. No distinction can be made between the calcrete and nodule isotopic compositions. The constancy of isotopic values across the Tian Shan is evidence of a development of these calcification features in similar palaeoenvironmental conditions. The main inference is that no significant relief existed in that area at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary, implying that most of the present relief developed later, during the Cenozoic. In addition to the pedogenic carbonates, few beds of limestones interstratified in the Jurassic series of the southern foothills display oxygen and carbon isotope compositions typical of lacustrine carbonates, ruling out brackish water incursion at that period in the region. (C) 2014 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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