A Global Synthesis of the Ordovician System: Part 1
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The Ordovician is one of the longest and geologically most active periods in Phanerozoic history. The unique Ordovician biodiversifications established modern marine ecosystems, whereas the first plants originated on land. The two volumes cover all key topics on Ordovician research and provide a review of Ordovician successions across the globe.
The Ordovician of France and neighbouring areas of Belgium and Germany Available to Purchase
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Published:May 10, 2023
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Bertrand Lefebvre, J. Javier Álvaro, Josep Maria Casas, Jean-François Ghienne, Alain Herbosch, Alfredo Loi, Eric Monceret, Jacques Verniers, Muriel Vidal, Daniel Vizcaïno, Thomas Servais, 2023. "The Ordovician of France and neighbouring areas of Belgium and Germany", A Global Synthesis of the Ordovician System: Part 1, D. A. T. Harper, B. Lefebvre, I. G. Percival, T. Servais
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Abstract
The Ordovician successions of France and neighbouring areas of Belgium and Germany are reviewed and correlated based on international chronostratigraphic and regional biostratigraphic charts. The same three megasequences related to the rift, drift and docking of Avalonia with Baltica can be tracked in Belgium and neighbouring areas (Brabant Massif and Ardenne inliers), western (Rhenish Massif) and northeastern Germany (Rügen). The remaining investigated areas were part of Gondwana in the Ordovician. The Armorican Massif shares with the Iberian Peninsula a Furongian–Early Ordovician gap (Toledanian or Norman gap), and a continuous Mid–Late Ordovician shelf sedimentation. The Occitan Domain (Montagne Noire and Mouthoumet massifs), eastern Pyrenees and northwestern Corsica share with southwestern Sardinia continuous shelf sedimentation in the Early Ordovician, and a Mid Ordovician ‘Sardic gap’. In the Ordovician, the Maures Massif probably belonged to the same Sardo-Occitan domain. The Vosges and Schwarzwald massifs display comparable, poorly preserved Ordovician successions, suggesting affinities with the Teplá-Barrandian and/or Moldanubian zones of Central Europe.
- Armorican Massif
- Avalonia
- Baltica
- Belgium
- biostratigraphy
- Brabant Massif
- Central Europe
- chronostratigraphy
- continental shelf
- Europe
- France
- Germany
- Gondwana
- inliers
- nesosilicates
- Ordovician
- orthosilicates
- Paleozoic
- silicates
- stratigraphic units
- succession
- tectonostratigraphic units
- U/Pb
- Western Europe
- zircon
- zircon group
- detrital zircon