期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES
卷 105, 期 1, 页码 67-80出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-015-1228-5
关键词
Radiolaria; Radiolarites; Volcaniclastic rocks; Amasia ophiolite; Armenia; Lesser Caucasus; Late Jurassic; Early Cretaceous
资金
- DARIUS program
- Erasmus Mundus IANUS Program
- GDRI-CNRS South Caucasus Geosciences
The Amasia ophiolite, situated at the northernmost corner of Armenia, is part of the Sevan-Hakari suture zone which links with the Izmir-Ankara-Erzin double dagger an suture zone in northern Turkey. Three new radiolarian assemblages have been extracted from siliceous sedimentary rocks that accumulated on the Amasia ophiolite in an oceanic setting. Two of these assemblages were extracted from red-brownish bedded cherts overlying basaltic lavas; one of these is likely to be middle Oxfordian to early Kimmeridgian in age, while the second correlates with the Berriasian. Similar time-equivalent lava-chert sequences have been dated recently using radiolarians from the Stepanavan, Vedi and Sevan ophiolite units, where they are considered to relate to submarine volcanic activity in the back-arc marginal basin in which the Armenian ophiolites were formed. The third radiolarian assemblage, of late Barremian age, was extracted from a more than 15-m-thick volcaniclastic-chert sequence. The related volcanic activity is likely to have been subaerial and probably relates to the formation of an oceanic volcanic plateau; no Cretaceous subaerial volcanism has been previously recorded in the Lesser Caucasus area.
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