- journal_title：Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France
- Contributor：Philippe Münch ; Jean-Frédéric. Lebrun ; Jean-Jacques Cornée ; Isabelle Thinon ; Pol Guennoc ; Boris Jacques Marcaillou ; Jacques Begot ; Guillaume Bertrand ; Séverine Bes De Berc ; Kevin Biscarrat ; Clarisse Claud ; Lyvane De Min ; François Fournier ; Lydie Gailler ; David Graindorge ; Jean-Len Léticée ; Lionel Marie ; Yes Mazabraud ; Mihaela Melinte-Dobrinescu ; Pierre Moissette ; Frédéric Quillévéré ; Chrystel Verati ; Auran Randrianasolo
- Publisher：Societe Geologique de France
- Date：2013-01-01
- Format：text/html
- Language：en
- Identifier：10.2113/gssgfbull.184.1-2.99
- journal_abbrev：Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France
- issn：0037-9409
- volume：184
- issue：1-2
- firstpage：99
- section：Articles
This work presents a synthesis of the present-day knowledge on both emerged and submerged carbonate platforms of the Guadeloupe archipelago. Onshore and offshore data acquired during the KaShallow project are presented. Since the early Zanclean, some isolated platforms developed onto a Jurassic to Tortonian basement which displayed reliefs inherited from a major extensional tectonic episode dated from −8 to −5 Ma. Marie-Galante, Grande Terre and the southern shelf of Grande-Terre show strong similarities with Zanclean to Gelasian red-algal facies upward changing into early Calabrian coral facies. A major erosional unconformity (SB2) was recognized and allows to distinguish two early Calabrian formations (Calcaires à Agaricia Formation and Calcaires à Acropora Formation). The final emersion of these platforms is late Calabrian. The La Désirade platform displays Zanclean to early Piacenzian red-algal facies upward changing into coral facies. This platform emerged as soon as in the late Piacenzian. The island subsided again in relation with later extensional tectonic episode and early Calabrian reef platform then unconformably deposited. The Colombie bank deposits comprise Pliocene basinal deposits overlain by late Calabrian coral reefs. The Flandre bank might have emerged synchronously with La Désirade but was drowned only in the late Pleistocene-Holocene interval. Four extensional tectonic episodes have been identified in the late Miocene-Recent interval. Their effects depend on the location of the platforms within the fore-arc.