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Meiofauna, trace metals, TOC, sedimentology, and oxygen availability in the Late Miocene sublittoral deposits of Lake Pannon

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The Late Miocene fine-grained deposits have been investigated in the Vienna Basin to attest oxygen availability for infauna and epifauna in the sublittoral of the long-lived Lake Pannon. A clay and fine silt of the deeper lacustrine facies of a bay passed vertically into a silty clay, silt, and fine sand rhythmic deposition reflecting successive progradation of brackish prodelta to distal delta front colonized by a dense benthic population. A fully oxygenated environment is supposed in the Congeria subglobosa Beds and prodelta accentuated by ichnofauna, ostracods, and abundant in taxa and specimens, low total organic content, and trace elements concentration. A limited anoxic event caused by temporarily worsened circulation has been detected in non-calcareous greyish-blue homogenous clay with a noticeable high concentration of Ni, Co, and Pb coupled with absence of fossils, bioturbation, and low total organic carbon content.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the APVV agency (project APVT-51-045202 and APVV-0109-07). We are grateful to Prof. Kováč and Dr. Sliva from Comenius University for their palaeogeographical comments, Dr. Šimo from Slovak Academy of Sciences for his comments to chapter Ichnofossils and Alžbeta Svitáčová from Slovak Academy of Sciences for technical help. Thanks are also extended to two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments, which improved the manuscript.

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  3. Faculty of Natural Sciences, Mlynská dolina G, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia

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Starek, D., Pipík, R. & Hagarová, I. Meiofauna, trace metals, TOC, sedimentology, and oxygen availability in the Late Miocene sublittoral deposits of Lake Pannon. Facies 56, 369–384 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-009-0208-2

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