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Chronostratigraphy of uplifted Quaternary hemipelagic deposits from the Dodecanese island of Rhodes (Greece)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Frédéric Quillévéré ,
Jean-Jacques Cornée ,
Pierre Moissette ,
Gatsby Emperatriz Lopez-Otalvaro ,
Christiaan van Baak ,
Philippe Münch ,
Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu  and
Wout Krijgsman
Frédéric Quillévéré*
Affiliation:
Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, ENS de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5276 LGL-TPE, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
Jean-Jacques Cornée
Affiliation:
UMR5243 CNRS, Geosciences Montpellier, Université Montpellier 2, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
Pierre Moissette
Affiliation:
Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, ENS de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5276 LGL-TPE, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France Department of Historical Geology-Paleontology, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 15784 Athens, Greece
Gatsby Emperatriz Lopez-Otalvaro
Affiliation:
Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, ENS de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5276 LGL-TPE, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France UMR5243 CNRS, Geosciences Montpellier, Université Montpellier 2, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
Christiaan van Baak
Affiliation:
Paleomagnetic Laboratory “Fort Hoofddijk”, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 17, 3584 CD, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Philippe Münch
Affiliation:
UMR5243 CNRS, Geosciences Montpellier, Université Montpellier 2, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu
Affiliation:
National Institut of Marine Geology and Geoecology, 23-25 Dimitrie Onciul Street, PO Box 34-51, 70318 Bucharest, Romania
Wout Krijgsman
Affiliation:
Paleomagnetic Laboratory “Fort Hoofddijk”, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 17, 3584 CD, Utrecht, The Netherlands
*
* Laboratoire de Geologie de Lyon, Universite Lyon 1, 69622 Villeurbanne, France. frederic.quillevere@univ-lyon1.fr (F. Quillevere)
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Abstract

An integrated magneto-biostratigraphic study, based on calcareous nannofossils and foraminifers, together with the radiometric dating of a volcaniclastic layer found in several outcrops, was carried out on the hemipelagic deposits of the Lindos Bay Formation (LBF) at six localities on the island of Rhodes (Greece). Our highly refined chronostratigraphic framework indicates that the lower and upper lithos-tratigraphic boundaries of the LBF are diachronous. Associated with the 40Ar/39Ar age determination of 1.85 ± 0.08 Ma for the volcaniclastic layer, our data show that among the investigated outcrops, the Lindos Bay type locality section provides the longest record (1.1 Ma) of the LBF. Hemipelagic deposition occurred continuously from the late Gelasian (~1.9 Ma) to the late Calabrian (~0.8 Ma), i.e., from Chrons C2n (Olduvai) to C1r.1r (Matuyama) and from nannofossil Zones CNPL7 to CNPL10. This long record, together with the hemipelagic nature of the deposits, make the Lindos Bay type locality section a unique element in the eastern Mediterranean region, allowing future comparisons with other early Quaternary deep-sea sections available in the central and western Mediterranean regions.

Keywords

NannofossilsForaminiferaBiostratigraphyMagnetostratigraphy40Ar/39Ar datingQuaternaryRhodesEastern Mediterranean
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Quaternary Research , Volume 86 , Issue 1 , July 2016 , pp. 79 - 94
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Copyright © American Quaternary Association 2016 

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