Bond, D.P.G. and Zaton, M. (2003) Gamma-ray spectrometry across the Upper Devonian basin succession at Kowala in the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland). Acta Geologica Polonica, 53 (2). pp. 93-99. ISSN 0001-5709
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Abstract
The Upper Devonian sequence at Kowala in the Holy Cross Mountains was logged using gamma-ray spectrometry, for investigating the changes of oxygenation level in the Late Devonian basin. The Th/U ratio indicates that oxygen levels were low throughout the Late Frasnian interval, with low peaks during the Kellwasser Events showing anoxic conditions in the basin. The F-F boundary interval was also oxygen deficient, but there may have been a brief reoxygenation at the boundary itself. By the Famennian crepida Zone, the basin gradually began to reoxygenate, but in the trachytera Zone another anoxic event, the Annulata Event occurred, causing a bloom rather than extinction of specially adapted taxa such as Guerichia. Thus the gamma-ray spectrometry data suggests that basinal anoxia prevailed through much of the Late Frasnian. The F-F extinction might have been the result of prolonged stresses imposed on the ecosystem, particularly during the euxinic Upper Kellwasser Event.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Devonian, Kellwasser Event, Annulata Event, Frasnian-Famennian boundary, Holy Cross Mountains, Gamma-ray spectrometry |
| Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) |
| Depositing User: | Repository Officer |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Mar 2005 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2013 17:01 |
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| URI: | http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/347 |
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