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Depositional changes during the Danian–Selandian transition in Loubieng (France), Zumaia (Spain) and Sidi Nasseur (Tunisia): insights from and limits of rock magnetism

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Sébastien Wouters Open the ORCID record for Sébastien Wouters [Opens in a new window] ,
Simo Spassov ,
Mathieu Martinez ,
Etienne Steurbaut ,
Jean-Yves Storme ,
Johan Yans  and
Xavier Devleeschouwer
Sébastien Wouters*
Affiliation:
Liege University, Sedimentary Petrology, Boulevard du Rectorat, 15, B20, Sart-Tilman, 4000 Liège, Belgium Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O.D. Earth and History of Life, 29 rue Vautier, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Simo Spassov
Affiliation:
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Geophysical Centre, rue du Centre Physique, 1, 5670 Dourbes, Belgium
Mathieu Martinez
Affiliation:
Univ Rennes, CNRS, Géosciences Rennes, UMR 6118, 35000 Rennes, France
Etienne Steurbaut
Affiliation:
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O.D. Earth and History of Life, 29 rue Vautier, 1000 Brussels, Belgium KU Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Celestijnenlaan 200E, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
Jean-Yves Storme
Affiliation:
University of Namur, Department of Geology, Institute of Life, Earth and Environment, ILEE, rue de Bruxelles 61, 5000 Namur, Belgium
Johan Yans
Affiliation:
University of Namur, Department of Geology, Institute of Life, Earth and Environment, ILEE, rue de Bruxelles 61, 5000 Namur, Belgium
Xavier Devleeschouwer
Affiliation:
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O.D. Earth and History of Life, 29 rue Vautier, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
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*Author for correspondence: Sébastien Wouters, Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Depositional changes are studied in three sections encompassing the Danian–Selandian transition, Loubieng (France), Zumaia (Spain) and Sidi Nasseur (Tunisia), using magnetic susceptibility as a proxy. Additional rock-magnetic analyses are used to avoid ambiguous interpretation of magnetic susceptibility. The magnetic susceptibility, measured on 90 to 270 samples per section, is mainly controlled by paramagnetic minerals and linked to detrital input. Major increases in the detrital input are correlated to the end of the Latest Danian Event, a hyperthermal, and to the Danian–Selandian boundary. In Loubieng, two gradual increases in magnetic susceptibility within limestones beds precede the major detrital input increases, and start synchronously with the beginning of the Latest Danian Event and the onset of haematite deposition around the Danian–Selandian boundary, respectively. This haematite is suspected to be of primary origin based, among other things, on low magnetic viscosity values, which is used here as an indicator of diagenetic origin in haematite and goethite. The red levels where haematite is interpreted to be of primary origin could be linked to the hyperthermal event previously hypothesized for the basal Selandian. The comparison of the magnetic susceptibility, chemo- and biostratigraphic data between the three sections highlights the condensed nature of the sedimentation around the Danian–Selandian boundary in the sections of the Atlantic realm. The lower part of the Selandian shows a particularly low sedimentation rate at Zumaia compared to Loubieng and Sidi Nasseur. The latter displays the most complete record of the three.

Keywords

magnetic susceptibilityhaematitegoethitepalaeoclimatology
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Geological Magazine , Volume 156 , Issue 12 , December 2019 , pp. 1982 - 2000
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© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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