The Anthering outcrop (Austria), a key-section for correlation between Tethys and northwestern Europe near the Paleocene/Eocene boundary
The Anthering outcrop (Austria), a key-section for correlation between Tethys and northwestern Europe near the Paleocene/Eocene boundary
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Anthering 露头(奥地利),是古新世/始新世边界附近特提斯洋与西北欧之间关联的关键部分
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2000
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H. Egger
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C. Heilmann;H. Egger
A section in the Rhenodanubian Flysch at Anthering, near Salzburg, Austria, records important dinoflagellate events which are also recognized in NW Europe, where they have proved to be reliable biostratigraphical tools in the Paleocene/Eocene boundary interval lacking calcareous microfossils. It is the first direct biostratigraphical correlation between NW Europe and the Tethys in this interval. The Austrian dinoflagellate record suggests that some dinoflagellate events near the Paleocene/Eocene boundary are probably widely recognizable. The calcareous nannofossils in the Anthering section enable a direct calibration between the dinoflagellate events and the standard calcareous nannofossil zonation (Egger et al. in press). In ascending order, the most important dinoflagellate events are: 1) A strong acme of Apectodinium spp. (exceeding 60% of the total dinoflagellate assemblage in some samples) in upper NP9, contrasting to percentages generally between 10 and 25 in the sections above and below. The acme coincides with a negative shift in δC interpreted to probably represent the global carbon isotopic excursion (CIE) (Egger et al. in press). 2) The regular occurrence of Apectodinium augustum approximately restricted to the same interval as the acme of the genus. 3) The first appearance of the genus Wetzeliella in the upper part of NP10. The genus is represented by two species: one is identical or close to the NW European species W. lobisca or W. lunaris. The other one is W. unicaudalis, which is more common. It has formerly been recorded in the North Atlantic Basque Basin (Caro 1973), but not in NW Europe. An interval with bentonite layers occurs between the LAD of A. augustum and FAD of Wetzeliella. The main ash phase of the North Sea Basin occurs in a similar position relative to the same dinoflagellate events. This first-order calibration between NW European dinoflagellate events and the standard nannofossil zonation provides independent evidence for the position of sections from the type areas of the Sparnacian and Ypresian stages in the global stratigraphical schemes. The occurrence of the calcareous nannofossil Tribrachiatus digitalis relative to the dinoflagellate events is similar at Anthering (Egger et al. in press) and in the basement bed of the London Clay (Berggren & Aubry 1998). The new data seem to confirm the bio-chronostratigraphical position of these sections as hitherto interpreted by most workers mainly on the basis of a combination of magnetostratigraphy, tephra-correlation, and absolute datings.