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Hydraulic sorting of microbiota in calciturbidites— A dinantian case study from the rheinische schiefergebirge, Germany

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A calciturbidite bed from the lower part of the Kieselkalk Formation (late cd II) at Wallau, eastern Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, displays ideal grading of reworked calcareous shallow-water microbiota, ranging from plurimillimetric agglutinated foraminifers and fragments of calcareous algae (Koninckopora sp.) to plurimicronic calcispheres, radiolarians and sponge spicules. Microbiota derived from all levels of the platform. Correspondingly, several carbonate microfacies types could be discerned. The early diagenetic micrite base of the turbidite preserved the anoxic basinal facies.

The turbidite bed belongs to Foraminiferal Zone 15 (V3bα), theAlbaillella cartalla Zone (radiolarian chronology), and is the Lower and part of the Uppertexanus Zone (standard conodont zonation). From the few published data on foraminifers, the Kieselkalk is thought to range from Mid Viséan V2b to Late Viséan V3b gamma.

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    Hans-Georg Herbig

  2. Faculté des arts et des sciences, Départment de Geologie, Université de Montréal, Succ. ‘A’, Case postale 6128, H3C 3J7, Montréal

    Bernard Mamet

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Herbig, HG., Mamet, B. Hydraulic sorting of microbiota in calciturbidites— A dinantian case study from the rheinische schiefergebirge, Germany. Facies 31, 93–104 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02536935

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