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MARINE GEOLOGY
卷 209, 期 1-4, 页码 223-244出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2004.06.007
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West Africa Margin; Congo; Angola basin; Zaire deep-sea fan; stratigraphy and climate change
Analysis of more than 19,000 km of multichannel seismic reflection data from the ZaiAngo Project, covering the Zaire deep-sea fan, allowed us to identify the oceanic crust and five seismostratigraphic units on the basin floor and abyssal plain. In the absence of a direct stratigraphic tic, the time frame is provided by long distance correlations. A stratigraphic model for the evolution of the Zaire deep-sea fan is proposed. A widespread major regional unconformity, representing probably the Eocene-Oligocene transition, marks a drastic change of sedimentation pattern in the basin floor: a pelagic aggradational sequence (Albian-Eocene) overlying the oceanic crust gives way to an onlapping prograding sequence of turbidite deposits (Oligocene-Recent). This change marks the onset of the ancient Zaire deep-sea fan, triggered by the climatic change related to the greenhouse-icehouse shift at the Eocene-Oligocene transition, which was responsible for a drastic increase in continental erosion and terrigenous sedimentary supply to the margin. The volume of the fan is at least 0.7 Mkm(3), much broader and thicker than formerly assumed. A short-lived episode of rapid facies progradation/retrogradation is recorded sometimes during the Miocene; triggering factors for this event are likely to have a tectonic and/or climatic origin. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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