Mesozoic and Cenozoic Sequence Stratigraphy of European Basins

Mesozoic and Cenozoic Sequence Stratrigraphy of European Basins - This project was designed to build a documented chronostratigraphic and outcrop record of depositional sequences calibrated across European Basins. Data on standard stages, magnetostratigraphy, and geochronology integrated with high resolution biostratigraphy calibrate the stratigraphic position of depositional sequence boundaries. Higher order eustatic sequences show a significant increase in the number identified. A good portion of the European Mesozoic and Cenozoic succession is set in a sequence stratigraphic context with a better stratigraphic record of its bonding surfaces.
Triassic Sequence Stratigraphy in the Western Part of the Northern Calcareous Alps (Austria)
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Published:January 01, 1999
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Thomas Rüffer, Thilo Bechstädt, 1999. "Triassic Sequence Stratigraphy in the Western Part of the Northern Calcareous Alps (Austria)", Mesozoic and Cenozoic Sequence Stratigraphy of European Basins, Pierre-Charles de Graciansky, Jan Hardenbol, Thierry Jacquin, Peter R. Vail
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Abstract
During Triassic times, the Northern Calcareous Alps were situated at the northwestern margin of the Tethys ocean. Succeeding the Permian and Lower Triassic red bed stage, shallow-water carbonates were the main constituents of the Middle and Late Triassic strata, in addition to some mixed carbonate-clastic deposits and basin carbonates. Biostratigraphic data enables exact positioning of the depositional sequences. Despite many good correlations with other Alpine regions as well as with epicontinental Triassic units of central, northwestern and northern Europe, no correlative sequences exist in the Northern Calcareous Alps during late Anisian, late Ladinian, early Carnian and probably Norian times....