New data on the Vrancea Nappe (Moldavidian Basin, Outer Carpathian Domain, Romania): paleogeographic and geodynamic reconstructions
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Title: | New data on the Vrancea Nappe (Moldavidian Basin, Outer Carpathian Domain, Romania): paleogeographic and geodynamic reconstructions |
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Authors: | Amadori, Maria Letizia | Belayouni, Habib | Guerrera, Francesco | Martín-Martín, Manuel | Martin-Rojas, Ivan | Miclăuş, Crina | Raffaelli, Giuliana |
Research Group/s: | Evolución Geodinámica de la Cordillera Bética Oriental y de la Plataforma Marina de Alicante |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra y del Medio Ambiente |
Keywords: | Moldavidian Basin | Clastic provenance | Organic matter | Hydrocarbon exploration | Paleogeography | Geodynamic evolution |
Knowledge Area: | Geodinámica Interna |
Issue Date: | Sep-2012 |
Publisher: | Springer |
Citation: | AMADORI, Maria Letizia, et al. “New data on the Vrancea Nappe (Moldavidian Basin, Outer Carpathian Domain, Romania): paleogeographic and geodynamic reconstructions”. International Journal of Earth Sciences. Vol. 101, No. 6 (Sept. 2012). ISSN 1437-3254, pp. 1599-1623 |
Abstract: | A study has been performed on the Cretaceous to Early Miocene succession of the Vrancea Nappe (Outer Carpathians, Romania), based on field reconstruction of the stratigraphic record, mineralogical-petrographic and geochemical analyses. Extra-basinal clastic supply and intra-basinal autochthonous deposits have been differentiated, appearing laterally inter-fingered and/or interbedded. The main clastic petrofacies consist of calcarenites, sub-litharenites, quartzarenites, sub-arkoses, and polygenic conglomerates derived from extra-basinal margins. An alternate internal and external provenance of the different supplies is the result of the paleogeographic re-organization of the basin/margins system due to tectonic activation and exhumation of rising areas. The intra-basinal deposits consist of black shales and siliceous sediments (silexites and cherty beds), evidencing major environmental changes in the Moldavidian Basin. Organic-matter-rich black shales were deposited during anoxic episodes related to sediment starvation and high nutrient influx due to paleogeographic isolation of the basin caused by plate drifting. The black shales display relatively high contents in sub-mature to mature, Type II lipidic organic matter (good oil and gas-prone source rocks) constituting a potentially active petroleum system. The intra-basinal siliceous sediments are related to oxic pelagic or hemipelagic environments under tectonic quiescence conditions although its increase in the Oligocene part of the succession can be correlated with volcanic supplies. The integration of all the data in the “progressive reorientation of convergence direction” Carpathian model, and their consideration in the framework of a foreland basin, led to propose some constrains on the paleogeographic-geodynamic evolutionary model of the Moldavidian Basin from the Late Cretaceous to the Burdigalian. |
Sponsor: | This research was supported by Urbino University grant (responsible F. Guerrera), Italy; CGL2009-09249 and CGL2011-30153-CO2-02 research projects (Spanish Ministry of Education and Science), Research Groups and projects of the Generalitat Valenciana and from Alicante University (CTMA-IGA Spain); Research Contr. IDEI 436/01.10.2007 (CNCSIS-Romania). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/27488 |
ISSN: | 1437-3254 (Print) | 1437-3262 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00531-011-0744-1 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00531-011-0744-1 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - GEODIN - Artículos de Revistas |
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