TAPHONOMY, CRONOSTRATIGRAPHY AND PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS AT TURBIDITE OF EARLY PALEOGENE (VERTIENTES FORMATION), CUBA

 

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Egileak: Menéndez, Leidy, Rojas-Consuegra, Reinaldo, Villegas-Martín, Jorge, López, Rafael A.
Formatua: artículo original
Egoera:Versión publicada
Argitaratze data:2012
Deskribapena:This study focuses on the taphonomy, paleontology, and invertebrate diversity of the Upper Paleocene to Lower Eocene, turbidite deposits of Vertientes Formation, northwest of Ciego de Ávila, Central Cuba. The section exposed is stratified with detritic rocks, heterogeneous litoclasts and bioclasts. The fossil assemblage includes bivalve mollusks, gastropods, equinoderms, corals, crustaceans, icnofossils, orbitoidal foraminifera, ostracods and radiolarians. Age of the deposit was determined by the accumulated planktonic foraminifera assemblage. The taphonomic charac- terization of the conserved entities suggests processes such as mineralization, recrystallization, sedimentary infilling, disarticulation, fragmentation, encrustation and others, indicating that these conserved entities are alocthonous and have suffered intense processes of transport, taphonomic reelaboration and resedimentation. The depositional sequence was accumulated in association with a slope, in a bathyal environment, influenced by strong precipitations, typical of tropical to subtropical latitudes.
Herria:Portal de Revistas UCR
Erakundea:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Hizkuntza:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:archivo.portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/1905
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://archivo.revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/geologica/article/view/1905
Gako-hitza:fossil
early paleogene
taphonomic
turbidite
vertientes formation
fósil
paleógeno temprano
tafonómico
turbidita
formación vertientes