Climatic changes and astrochronology: an Ordovician perspectiv

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نویسندگان

1 Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Golestan University, Gorgan 49138-15739, Iran

2 Department of Natural Sciences, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff CF10 3NP, United Kingdom

3 School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, United Kingdom

چکیده

Review of current progress in Mid to Late Ordovician astrochronological studies exposes some important issues related to cyclostratigraphical studies, including the completeness and correlation of successions, and the connection between inferred astronomical cycles and geological events recorded in the sedimentary record. While bulk, low-field, mass specific magnetic susceptibility methods are widely applied in studies of high resolution cyclostratigraphy, they require close support from sequence stratigraphy and biostratigraphy, and should be linked back to outcrop patterns. Otherwise they risk distortion in the calibration against geological time, through lack of anchoring to well-defined biostratigraphical horizons and unrecognised condensed intervals and larger hiatuses. A significant limitation currently is that few high-resolution radio-isotope ages are linked to well-defined biostratigraphical boundaries. Nevertheless, fourth order sedimentary sequences linked to 405 ky orbital eccentricity cycles, and longer orbital cyclicity impressed in third-order sequences, represent good grounds for development of a reliable astrochronological scale. The astrochronologically calibrated sequence-stratigraphical record documented from high latitude Gondwana shows significant impact from orbital forcing on the Mid to Late Ordovician global climate.

کلیدواژه‌ها


عنوان مقاله [English]

Climatic changes and astrochronology: an Ordovician perspective

نویسندگان [English]

  • Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour 1
  • Leonid Popov 2
  • Lesley Cherns 3
1 Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Golestan University, Gorgan 49138-15739, Iran
2 Department of Natural Sciences, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff CF10 3NP, United Kingdom
3 School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, United Kingdom
چکیده [English]

Review of current progress in Mid to Late Ordovician astrochronological studies exposes some important issues related to cyclostratigraphical studies, including the completeness and correlation of successions, and the connection between inferred astronomical cycles and geological events recorded in the sedimentary record. While bulk, low-field, mass specific magnetic susceptibility methods are widely applied in studies of high resolution cyclostratigraphy, they require close support from sequence stratigraphy and biostratigraphy, and should be linked back to outcrop patterns. Otherwise they risk distortion in the calibration against geological time, through lack of anchoring to well-defined biostratigraphical horizons and unrecognised condensed intervals and larger hiatuses. A significant limitation currently is that few high-resolution radio-isotope ages are linked to well-defined biostratigraphical boundaries. Nevertheless, fourth order sedimentary sequences linked to 405 ky orbital eccentricity cycles, and longer orbital cyclicity impressed in third-order sequences, represent good grounds for development of a reliable astrochronological scale. The astrochronologically calibrated sequence-stratigraphical record documented from high latitude Gondwana shows significant impact from orbital forcing on the Mid to Late Ordovician global climate.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Ordovician
  • orbital forcing
  • astrochronology
  • cyclostratigraphy
  • biostratigraphy
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