RT Journal Article
T1 Base of the Toarcian Stage of the Lower Jurassicdefined by the Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) at the Peniche section (Portugal)
A1 Bordalo da Rocha, Rogério
A1 Mattioli, Emanuela
A1 Duarte, Luís Vitor
A1 Pittet, Bernard
A1 Elmi, Serge
A1 Mouterde, René
A1 Cabral, Maria Cristina
A1 Comas Rengifo, María José
A1 Gómez Fernández, Juan José
A1 Goy, Antonio
A1 Hesselbo, Stephen P.
A1 Jenkyns, Hugh C
A1 Littler, Kate
A1 Mailliot, Samuel
A1 Veiga de Oliveira, Luiz Carlos
A1 Osete López, María Luisa
A1 Perilli, Nicola
A1 Pinto, Susana
A1 Ruget, Christiane
AB The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of Toarcian Stage, Lower Jurassic, is placed at the base of micritic limestone bed 15e at Ponta do Trovão (Peniche, Lusitanian Basin, Portugal; coordinates: 39°22’15’’N, 9°23’07’’W), 80km north of Lisbon, and coincides with the mass occurrence of the ammonite Dactylioceras (Eodactylites). The Pliensbachian/ Toarcian boundary (PLB/TOA) is contained in a continuous section forming over 450m of carbonate-rich sediments. Tectonics, syn-sedimentary disturbance, metamorphism or significant diagenesis do not significantly affect this area. At the PLB/TOA, no vertical facies changes, stratigraphical gaps or hiatuses have been recorded. The base of the Toarcian Stage is marked in the bed 15e by the first occurrence of D. (E.) simplex, co-occurring with D. (E.) pseudocommune and D. (E.) polymorphum. The ammonite association of D. (Eodactylites) ssp. and other species e.g. Protogrammoceras (Paltarpites) cf. paltum, Lioceratoides aff. ballinense and Tiltoniceras aff. capillatum is particularly significant for the boundary definition and correlation with sections in different basins. Ammonites of the PLB/ TOA are taxa characteristic of both the Mediterranean and Northwest European provinces that allow reliable, global correlations. The PLB/TOA is also characterized by other biostratigraphical markers (brachiopods, calcareous nannofossils, ostracods and benthic foraminifers) and by high-resolution stable carbon and oxygen isotopes, and 87Sr/86Sr ratios that show distinctive changes just above the PLB/TOA, thus providing additional, powerful tools for global correlations. The PBL-TOA lies at the end of a second (and third) order cycle of sea-level change, and the top of bed 15e is interpreted as a sequence boundary. Cyclostratigraphy analysis is available for the Lower Toarcian of Ponta do Trovão. Detailed correlations with the Almonacid de la Cuba section (Iberian Range, Spain) provide complementary data of the ammonite succession in the Northwest European Hawskerense and Paltum Subzones, and magnetostratigraphical data that allow supraregional correlations. The proposal was voted on by the Toarcian Working Group in June, 2012, and by the International Subcommission on Jurassic Stratigraphy in September, 2012, approved by the ICS in November, 2014, and ratified by the IUGS in December, 2014. With this Toarcian GSSP, all international stages of the Lower Jurassic have been officially defined.
PB International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)
SN Issn 0705-3797 ;  Essn 2586-1298
YR 2016
FD 2016-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18902
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18902
LA eng
NO Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
DS Docta Complutense
RD 18 may 2024