The connection between iron ore formations and 'mud-shrimp' colonizations around sunken wood debris and hydrothermal sediments in a Lower Cretaceous continental rift basin, Mecsek Mts., Hungary

Jáger, Viktor, Molnár, Ferenc, Buchs, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8866-8125 and Kodera, Peter 2012. The connection between iron ore formations and 'mud-shrimp' colonizations around sunken wood debris and hydrothermal sediments in a Lower Cretaceous continental rift basin, Mecsek Mts., Hungary. Earth-Science Reviews 114 (3-4) , pp. 250-278. 10.1016/j.earscirev.2012.06.003

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Abstract

In the Early Cretaceous, the continental rift basin of the Mecsek Mts. (Hungary), was situated on the southern edge of the European plate. The opening of the North Atlantic Ocean created a dilatational regime that expanded to the southern edge of the European plate, where several extensional basins and submarine volcanoes were formed during the Early Cretaceous epoch. Permanent seaquake activity caused high swell events during which a large amount of terrestrial wood fragments entered into submarine canyons from rivers or suspended woods which had sunk into the deep seafloor. These fragments created extended wood-fall deposits which contributed large-scale flourishing of numerous burrowing thalassinid crustaceans. Twelve different thalassinid coprolite ichnospecies can be found in the Berriasian–Hauterivian volcano-sedimentary formations.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Earth and Environmental Sciences
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Hydrothermal activity; Wood falls; Iron-ore; Hydrothermal petroleum; Crustacean coprolites; Intrusive pillow basalt
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0012-8252
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 10:28
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/44559

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