Timescale dependent sedimentary record during the past 130 kyr from a tropical mixed siliciclastic–carbonate shelf edge and slope: Ashmore Trough (southern Gulf of Papua)
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| Date | 2021-10 | ||||||||
| Language | English | ||||||||
| Author(s) | Mallarino Gianni 1, Francis Jason M.2, Jorry Stephan3, Daniell James J.4, Droxler André W.5, Dickens Gerald R.5, Beaufort Luc6, Bentley Samuel J.7, Opdyke Bradley N.8, Peterson Larry C.9 |
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| Affiliation(s) | 1 : Department of Physical and Applied Geology, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) 1117 Budapest Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c, Hungary 2 : Chevron ,1500 Louisiana Street Houston TX 77002 ,USA 3 : IFREMER, Géosciences Marines Centre de Brest BP70, 29280 Plouzané, France 4 : Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University Townsville QLD 4811, Australia 5 : Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Rice University 6100 Main St Houston Texas 77005 ,USA 6 : CEREGE, Europole Méditerranéen de l'Arbois BP80 13545 Aix‐en‐Provence ,France 7 : Department of Geology and Geophysics ,Louisiana State University E235 Howe Russell Geoscience Complex Baton Rouge Louisiana 70803, USA 8 : The Australian National University ,Research School of Earth Sciences Building 142 Mills Road Acton ACT 2601 ,Australia 9 : Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science ,University of Miami 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway Miami FL 33149 ,USA |
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| Source | Sedimentology (0037-0746) (Wiley), 2021-10 , Vol. 68 , N. 6 , P. 2606-2648 | ||||||||
| DOI | 10.1111/sed.12867 | ||||||||
| WOS© Times Cited | 8 | ||||||||
| Keyword(s) | Gulf of Papua, high‐, Mg calcite ooids, large benthic foraminifera, last deglaciation, last sea‐, level cycle, mass accumulation rates, Mistery Interval, mixed siliciclastic–, carbonate system | ||||||||
| Abstract | In tropical and sub‐tropical mixed siliciclastic–carbonate depositional systems, fluvial input and in situ neritic carbonate interact over space and time. Despite being the subject of many studies, controls on partitioning of mixed sediments remains controversial. Mixed sedimentary records, from Ashmore Trough shelf edge and slopes (southern Gulf of Papua), are coupled with global sea‐level curves and anchored to Marine Isotope Stage stratigraphy to constrain models of sediment accumulation at two different timescales for the past 130 kyr: (i) 100 kyr scale for last glacial cycle; and (ii) millennial scale for last deglaciation. During the last glacial cycle, carbonate production and accumulation were primarily controlled by sea‐level fluctuations. Export of neritic carbonate to the slopes was initiated during re‐flooding of previously exposed reefs and continued during Marine Isotope Stage 5e and 1 interglacial sea‐level highs. Siliciclastic fluxes to the slope were controlled by interplay of sea level, shelf physiography, and oceanic currents. Heterogeneous accumulation of siliciclastic mud on the slope, took place during Marine Isotope Stage 5d to Marine Isotope Stage 3 sea‐level fall. Siliciclastics reached adjacent depocentres during Marine Isotope Stage 2. Coralgal reef and oolitic–skeletal sand resumed at the shelf edge during the subsequent stepwise sea‐level rise of the last deglaciation. Contemporaneous, abrupt siliciclastic input from increased precipitation and fluvial discharge, illustrates that climate controlled deglacial sedimentation. Siliciclastic input persisted until ca 8.5 ka. Carbonate accumulation waned at the shelf edge after ca 14 ka, whereas increased on the slopes since ca 11.5 ka, when previously exposed reef and bank tops were re‐flooded. When comparing the last sea‐level cycle sedimentation patterns of the southern Gulf of Papua with other coeval mixed systems, sea level and shelf physiography emerge as primary controls on deposition at the 100 kyr scale. At the millennial scale, siliciclastic input was also controlled by climate change during the unstable atmospheric and oceanic conditions of the last deglaciation. |
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