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- Title
Transgressive Eocene clastic-carbonate sediments from the Circum-Rhodope belt, northeastern Greece: implications for a rocky shore palaeoenvironment.
- Authors
Chatalov, Athanas; Ivanova, Daria; Bonev, Nikolay
- Abstract
Locally exposed Middle to Upper Eocene conglomerates in the western part of the Cenozoic Thrace Basin are interpreted as products of continuous marine erosion of a rocky coast (consisting of Lower Cretaceous carbonates) and subsequent redeposition of the land-derived limestone material in a wave-dominated nearshore setting during a prolonged transgression. Contemporaneous biological activity in the warm-temperate marine environment contributed to the accumulation of mixed coarse-grained clastic-carbonate sediments on the upper shoreface. The formation of a relatively thick sedimentary succession was favoured by the interplay of several controlling factors as only shoreface deposits were preserved in the rock record. The results may help to elucidate the evolution of the hydrocarbon-bearing Thrace Basin and to assist with the regional correlation of its basal deposits. Copyright
- Subjects
SEDIMENTS; CARBONATE rocks; PALEOGEOPHYSICS; GEOLOGICAL basins; GEOLOGICAL research
- Publication
Geological Journal, 2015, Vol 50, Issue 6, p799
- ISSN
0072-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/gj.2598