In:
Terra Nova, Wiley, Vol. 17, No. 5 ( 2005-10), p. 450-455
Abstract:
The biota of the 1.5 Ma period of the Middle Miocene Sarmatian of the Central Paratethys lack stenohaline components. This was the reason to interpret the Sarmatian stage as transitional between the marine Badenian and the lacustrine Pannonian stages. However, our new data indicate that brackish water conditions could not have prevailed. Sarmatian foraminifera, molluscs, serpulids, bryozoans, dasycladacean and corallinacean algae as well as diatoms clearly indicate normal marine conditions for the entire Sarmatian. During the Lower Sarmatian, however, a sea‐level lowstand forced the development of many marginal marine environments. During the Late Sarmatian a highly productive carbonate factory of oolite shoals, mass‐occurrences of thick‐shelled molluscs and larger foraminifera, as well as marine cements clearly point to normal marine to hypersaline conditions. This trend is not restricted to the western margin of the Pannonian Basin System but can be observed in the entire Central and even Eastern Paratethys.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0954-4879
,
1365-3121
DOI:
10.1111/ter.2005.17.issue-5
DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-3121.2005.00632.x
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wiley
Publication Date:
2005
detail.hit.zdb_id:
1000080-X
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2020958-7
SSG:
13
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