Late Cretaceous chronostratigraphy (Turonian-Maastrichtian): SK1 core Songliao Basin, China

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• 作者：Robert W. Scott^a ; Xiaoqiao Wan^b ; ^{wanxq@cugb.edu.cn} ; Chengshan Wang^b ; Qinghua Huang^c
• 关键词：Upper Cretaceous stratigraphy ; East Asia ; Songliao Basin ; Numerical ages of palynomorphs ; Ostracodes ; Charophytes
• 刊名：Geoscience Frontiers
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：pc98_16749871
• 类别：ear
• 出版时间：July, 2012
• 卷：3
• 期：4
• 页码：357-367
• 文件大小：1807 K

摘要

Non-marine ostracodes, charophytes and palynomorphs are abundant in most Cretaceous lacustrine basins of East Asia. However, their ranges are not directly integrated with marine biota that defines the Cretaceous stages. Non-biotic events such as magnetochrons and radiometric ages in these terrestrial deposits enable their correlation with marine strata. The SK1 north and south composited cores in the Songliao Basin present a continuous section of Upper Cretaceous non-marine fossil and magnetochron successions in superposed order. These chronostratigraphic events are integrated with marine events by an X/Y graphic plot between the core data and a global database of Global Section and Stratotype Points (GSSP) and key reference sections. This plot projects stage boundaries in marine sections into the SK1 section and interpolates numerical ages to the first and last occurrences of biota and to lithostratigraphic boundaries. This stratigraphic experiment tests and refines age calibrations based on both manual interpolation of depths to numerical ages and cyclostratigraphy. Ages derived by interpolation are similar and ages by cyclostratigraphy are older because stage boundaries are calibrated to a different age scale.