Reconstruction of the Yangtze Ramp during Floian to Darriwilian (Ordovician) in South China: Its Morphology, Controlling Factors and Significances

Author:

LUAN Xiaocong12,DESROCHERS André3,WU Rongchang1,LIU Jianbo4,WANG Guangxu1,LIANG Yan1,ZHANG Yuchen1,WEI Xin1,LI Lixia1,ZHAN Renbin15

Affiliation:

1. State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing 210008 China

2. Department of Geological Science University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon Saskatchewan S7N 5E2 Canada

3. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences University of Ottawa Ottawa Ontario K1N 6N5 Canada

4. Paleontology and Stratigraphy, School of Earth and Space Sciences Peking University Beijing 100871 China

5. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 China

Abstract

AbstractA robust stratigraphic framework and a coherent depositional ramp model for the Zitai, Dawan, Meitan and Ningkuo formations of Floian–Darriwilian age (Early–Middle Ordovician) in the Yangtze (Daoba, Xiangshuidong, Daling, Gudongkou and Honghuayuan sections) and Jiangnan regions (Nanba section) was created based on lithofacies and major element analysis. Three siliciclastic (LF1–3) and six carbonate (LF4–9) lithofacies are recognized representing sediments that were deposited in mixed siliciclastic and carbonate ramp environment. The intensity of mixed sedimentation and terrigenous input were evaluated using the elemental proxies Intensity of Mixed sedimentation (IM) and Aluminum Accumulation Rate (AlAR), as well as their mean values during certain time intervals. Mixed sediments are most well‐developed along the marginal Yangtze region, strongly impacted by recurrent influx of westerly derived terrigenous materials in response to global eustatic changes and regional tectonic movements, shaping the gently southeast‐dipping morphology. Regular terrigenous influx resulted in periods of enhanced primary productivity on the Yangtze Ramp as evidenced by matching biodiversity peaks in planktonic organisms, i.e., chitinozoans and acritarchs. Brachiopods and other shelly fauna were also able to proliferate as new niches developed along the gently dipping ramp floor with substrate changes. The biodiversification patterns suggest that terrigenous influx controlled in part by regional tectonics played a more important role than previously thought in the development of Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event in South China.

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Geology

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