Benthic foraminifera at Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Hole 692B were studied to understand variations in oxygen and organic-matter fluxes in bottom waters during the Early Cretaceous. The upper Berriasian to lower Barremian black shales, characterized by high concentrations of total organic carbon (TOC) ranging between 1.3 and 18%, were deposited in an outer neritic-upper bathyal environment (similar to 200-500 m) according to benthic foraminifera assemblages. A new high-resolution record of benthic foraminiferal assemblages of high-latitude, dominated by infaunal taxa (Citharina, Eoguttulina, Laevidentalina, Lagena, Lenticulina, Marginulina, Nodosaria, Planularia, Saracenaria, and Vaginulinopsis), is described in depleted-oxygen and high organic-carbon flux conditions. Extremely dysoxic conditions are recorded at the onset of the carbon isotope excursion (CIE) marking the Weissert Event (late Valanginian), followed by a period of anoxic conditions in bottom waters. A repopulation event of benthic foraminifera, linked to an increase in oxygen concentrations, coincided with the global cooling episode that characterized the late part of the Weissert Event. Subsequently, there were short periods in the late Valanginian and the late early Hauterivian when the bottom waters experienced increased oxygen concentrations. Possibly, bottom currents related to the influx of Southern Ocean waters favored short-term pulses of ventilation under constant increased organic-carbon flux during the late Valanginian and late Hauterivian.

Bottom water conditions redox dynamics during the Early Cretaceous Weissert Event at ODP Hole 692B (Weddell Sea, Antarctica) reconstructed from the benthic foraminiferal assemblages / V.M. Giraldo-Gómez, M.R. Petrizzo, C. Bottini, C. Möller, T. Wagner, L. Cavalheiro, O. Esegbue, G. Gambacorta, E. Erba. - In: PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY. - ISSN 0031-0182. - 587:(2022 Feb 01), pp. 110795.1-110795.14. [10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110795]

Bottom water conditions redox dynamics during the Early Cretaceous Weissert Event at ODP Hole 692B (Weddell Sea, Antarctica) reconstructed from the benthic foraminiferal assemblages

V.M. Giraldo-Gómez
Primo
Formal Analysis
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M.R. Petrizzo
Secondo
Membro del Collaboration Group
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C. Bottini;L. Cavalheiro
Membro del Collaboration Group
;
G. Gambacorta
Penultimo
Membro del Collaboration Group
;
E. Erba
Ultimo
Conceptualization
2022

Abstract

Benthic foraminifera at Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Hole 692B were studied to understand variations in oxygen and organic-matter fluxes in bottom waters during the Early Cretaceous. The upper Berriasian to lower Barremian black shales, characterized by high concentrations of total organic carbon (TOC) ranging between 1.3 and 18%, were deposited in an outer neritic-upper bathyal environment (similar to 200-500 m) according to benthic foraminifera assemblages. A new high-resolution record of benthic foraminiferal assemblages of high-latitude, dominated by infaunal taxa (Citharina, Eoguttulina, Laevidentalina, Lagena, Lenticulina, Marginulina, Nodosaria, Planularia, Saracenaria, and Vaginulinopsis), is described in depleted-oxygen and high organic-carbon flux conditions. Extremely dysoxic conditions are recorded at the onset of the carbon isotope excursion (CIE) marking the Weissert Event (late Valanginian), followed by a period of anoxic conditions in bottom waters. A repopulation event of benthic foraminifera, linked to an increase in oxygen concentrations, coincided with the global cooling episode that characterized the late part of the Weissert Event. Subsequently, there were short periods in the late Valanginian and the late early Hauterivian when the bottom waters experienced increased oxygen concentrations. Possibly, bottom currents related to the influx of Southern Ocean waters favored short-term pulses of ventilation under constant increased organic-carbon flux during the late Valanginian and late Hauterivian.
Benthic foraminifera; Early Cretaceous; Weissert event; Bottom-water redox; Paleoceanography; Antarctica;
Settore GEO/01 - Paleontologia e Paleoecologia
Settore GEO/02 - Geologia Stratigrafica e Sedimentologica
   BIOTA RESILIENCE TO GLOBAL CHANGE: BIOMINERALIZATION OF PLANKTIC AND BENTHIC CALCIFIERS IN THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
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   Dipartimenti di Eccellenza 2018-2022 - Dipartimento di SCIENZE DELLA TERRA "ARDITO DESIO"
   MINISTERO DELL'ISTRUZIONE E DEL MERITO
1-feb-2022
17-dic-2021
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