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U–Pb geochronology of zircons from fossiliferous sediments of the Hajnáčka I maar (Slovakia) – type locality of the MN 16a biostratigraphic subzone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2012

VRATISLAV HURAI ,
JEAN-LOUIS PAQUETTE ,
MONIKA HURAIOVÁ  and
MARTIN SABOL
VRATISLAV HURAI*
Affiliation:
Geological Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, P.O. Box 106, 84005 Bratislava, Slovakia
JEAN-LOUIS PAQUETTE
Affiliation:
Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, BP 10448, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France CNRS, UMR6524, LMV, F-63038 Clermont-Ferrand, France IRD, R 163, LMV, Clermont-Ferrand, France
MONIKA HURAIOVÁ
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina, 84215 Bratislava, Slovakia
MARTIN SABOL
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Palaeontology, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina, 84215 Bratislava, Slovakia
*
†Author for correspondence: vratislav.hurai@savba.sk
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Abstract

Lacustrine sediments of the Hajnáčka I maar of southern Slovakia contain teeth and skeletal remains of a mammal fauna, including index Early Villanyian arvicoline rodents. U–Pb dating of magmatic zircons extracted from the redeposited fossiliferous maar sediments revealed a total of six volcanic events. The oldest age of 3.43 Ma was interpreted as that corresponding to the initial phreato-magmatic eruption that created the maar. Most zircons grouped around 3.06 ± 0.03 Ma, the age attributed to the catastrophic eruption that killed the mammal assemblage thriving within and around the maar studied. This age coincides with the 3.1 Ma boundary between the MN 16a and 16b subzones of the European Mammal Neogene chronostratigraphic scale estimated from the succession of Early Villanyian palaeontological localities according to the hypsometry of rodent teeth. Younger zircon ages overlapped those of the neighbouring basaltic lava flows, necks and dykes, thus recording superimposed effusions. The youngest 1.58 Ma old zircon defines the age limit for the final redeposition of the fossiliferous sediments in the maar drainage lake regime.

Keywords

zirconU–Pb datingrodent zonesVillanyianHajnáčka maarPannonian basin
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Geological Magazine , Volume 149 , Issue 6 , November 2012 , pp. 989 - 1000
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