Late Miocene sedimentary environments in south-western Amazonia (Solimões Formation; Brazil)

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• 作者：Martin Gross^a ; ^{martin.gross@museum-joanneum.at"" rel=""nofollow} ; Werner E. Piller^b ; ^{werner.piller@uni-graz.at"" rel=""nofollow} ; Maria Ines Ramos^c ; ^{mramos@museu-goeldi.br"" rel=""nofollow} ; Jackson Douglas da Silva Paz^d ; ^{jackdspaz@yahoo.com.br"" rel=""nofollow}
• 关键词：Western Amazonia ; Late Miocene ; “ ; Lake Pebas” ; Fluvial sediments
• 刊名：Journal of South American Earth Sciences
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：August 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：32
• 期：2
• 页码：169-181
• 全文大小：5560 K

文摘

In Miocene times a vast wetland existed in Western Amazonia. Whereas the general development of this amazing ecosystem is well established, many questions remain open on sedimentary environments, stratigraphical correlations as well as its palaeogeographical configuration. Several outcrops located in a barely studied region around Eirunepé (SW Amazonas state, Brazil) were investigated to obtain basic sedimentological data. The observed deposits belong to the upper part of the Solimões Formation and are biostratigraphically dated to the Late Miocene. Vertically as well as laterally highly variable fine-grained clastic successions were recorded. Based on the lithofacies assemblages, these sediments represent fluvial deposits, possibly of an anastomosing river system. Sand bodies formed within active channels and dominant overbank fines are described (levees, crevasse splays/channels/deltas, abandoned channels, backswamps, floodplain paleosols). Lacustrine environments are restricted to local floodplain ponds/lakes. The mollusc and ostracod content as well as very light δ¹⁸O and δ¹³C values, measured on ostracod valves, refer to exclusively freshwater conditions. Based on palaeontological and geological results the existence of a long-lived lake (“Lake Pebas”) or any influx of marine waters can be excluded for that region during the Late Miocene.