The Campanian-Maastrichtian Stage Boundary

Characterisation and Correlation from Tercis-les-Bains (Landes, SW France) to Europe and Other Continents
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-444-50647-4
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, 912 Seiten

Reihe: Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy

The Phanerozoic calendar of the history of the earth is composed of fundamental units called stages. A priority of the International Commission on Stratigraphy is to redefine these stages using a modern approach. This work presents a unique solution to the previously debated and diversified locations of the Campanian-Maastrichtian boundary, providing a precise correlation using the most accepted known time markers. The Campanian and the Maastrichtian are the last two stages of the Cretaceous System.

This volume includes a large amount of previously unpublished stratigraphical data. With the use of uncertainty margins for observations, established by comparison of results obtained by various experts using different approaches for the same stratigraphical tool, a new approach to stratigraphical information was employed. While most of the data have been taken from the recently rediscovered geological site at Tercis, France, data from other sections around the world have been considered. The section studied at Tercis is the best stratigraphical record on Earth for the period of several million years across the Campanian-Maastrichtian boundary.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Odin, G. S.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläobotanik
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläozoologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläoökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Stratigraphie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors.
Preface (J. Dercourt).

Leseproben

Introduction to "The Campanian-Maastrichtian Stage Boundary" (G. S. Odin).
Part A. Presentation of the geological site at Tercis les Bains.
A1 The past of the geological site at Tercis les Bains (Landes, France) (G. S. Odin, M. A. Lamaurelle).
A2 Préhistoire et protohistoire sur le territoire de Tercis les Bains (Ch. Normand, P. L. Odin, G. S. Odin).
Annexe 1: Conservation actuelle du matériel préhistorique de Tercis (G. S. Odin).
Annexe 2: Sur un nucléus préhistorique comportant un oursin fossile à Tercis (G. S. Odin, D. Néraudeau).
A3 Contexte environnemental, intérêt, protection et développement du site géologique de Tercis les
Bains (G. S. Odin, J.-M. Dubis, P. Odin).
Annexe 1: Sur les oiseaux de l'environnement du site géologique de Tercis (G. S. Odin).
Annexe 2: Données botaniques sur le site géologique de Tercis les Bains (J. Laporte-Cru, B. Cahuzac).
Annexe 3: Gastéropodes actuels (terrestres et dulçaquicoles) du site géologique de Tercis les
Bains (J.-L. Dommergues, G. S. Odin).
Annexe 4: Fourmis actuelles du site géologique de Tercis les Bains (A. Lenoir, G. S. Odin).
A4 Geology and Late Cretaceous palaeogeography of the geological site at Tercis les Bains (M. Bilotte, G. S. Odin, B. Vrielynck).
A5 Outcrops of the geological site at Tercis les Bains (G. S. Odin, M. A. Lamaurelle).
A6 The site at Tercis les Bains (Landes), stratotype of the Campanian-Maastrichtian limit: insights
from tectonic studies (M. Rocher).
Part B. Characterisation, equivocal correlation at Tercis les Bains. B1a Descriptive lithostratigraphy of the Campanian-Maastrichtian succession at Tercis les Bains (SW
France)(G. S. Odin).
Appendix 1: Scanning electron microscopic study of Campanian phosphate from Tercis (M. Lamboy).
Appendix 2: Microanalysis of feldspar crystals from the upper Campanian beds at Tercis
(Landes, France) (J.-R. Kienast, J. H. Hernandez, G. S. Odin).
B1b Microfaciès des sédiments du Campanien et du Maastrichtien de Tercis les Bains (Landes,
France) (P.-Y. Berthou†, G. S. Odin, E. Antonescu, J.-M. Villain).
B1c Interpretative reading of the Campanian-Maastrichtian deposits at Tercis les Bains: sedimentary
breaks, rhythms, accumulation rate, sequences (G. S. Odin, A. Amorosi).
Appendix 1: Mn content and sequence stratigraphic interpretation of the Campanian succession
at Tercis les Bains (G. S. Odin).
B1d Les fossiles du site géologique de Tercis les Bains (Landes, France) (G. S. Odin).
Appendix 1: Holothurians (Echinodermata) from the Campanian/Maastrichtian of Tercis (M. Reich).
B2a Rapport sur l'analyse des éléments en trace dans le Campanien-Maastrichien de Tercis les Bains
(France) (G. S. Odin).
B2b Composition isotopique du strontium à la limite Campanien-Maastrichtien; étude à Tercis les
Bains (Landes, France) et comparaison avec d'autres bassins (G. S. Odin, L. Turpin).
B2c Restes végétaux macroscopiques des sédiments du Campanien-Maastrichtien de Tercis les Bains (F. Baudin, G. S. Odin, J. Dupéron, M. Dupéron).
B2d Magnetostratigraphy across the Campanian-Maastrichtian boundary at Tercis les Bains in
comparison with northern Germany, the Apennines (Central Italy) and North America;
biostratigraphical and geochronological constraints (Z. Lewy, G. S. Odin).
Part C. Characterisation, unequivocal correlation; microfossils at Tercis les Bains.
C1a Palynological examination of samples from the Campanian-Maastrichtian succession at Tercis
les Bains: a preliminary view on spores and pollen (A. Siegl-Farkas).
C1b Répartition stratigraphique du pollen et des spores dans le Campanien et le Maastrichtien du site
géologique de Tercis les Bains (SW France) (E. Antonescu, G. S. Odin).
C1c Analyses sporopolliniques dans le Campanien/Maastrichtien de Tercis les Bains (Landes,
France)(H. Méon).
C1d Synthetic data on spores and pollen across the Campanian-Maastrichtian boundary at Tercis les
Bains (SW France) (H. Méon, G. S. Odin, E. Antones