Impact of an 0.2 km3 Rock Avalanche on Lake Eibsee (Bavarian Alps,Germany) – Part II: Catchment Response to Consecutive Debris Avalanche and Debris Flow

The ~0.2 km³ Eibsee rock avalanche impacted Paleolake Eibsee and completely displaced its waters. This study analyses the lake impact and the consequences, and the catchment response to the landslide. A quasi-3D seismic reflection survey, four sediment cores from modern Lake Eibsee, reaching far down into the rock avalanche mass, nine radiocarbon ages, and geomorphic analysis allow us to distinguish the main rock avalanche event from a secondary debris avalanche and debris flow. The highly fluidized debris avalanche formed a megaturbidite and multiple swashes that are recorded in the lake sediments. The new calibrated age for the Eibsee rock avalanche of ~4080–3970 cal yr BP indicates a coincidence with rockslides in the Fernpass cluster and subaquatic landslides in Lake Piburg and Lake Plansee, and raises the possibility that a large regional earthquake triggered these events. We document a complex history of erosion and sedimentation in Lake Eibsee, and demonstrate how the catchment response and rebirth of the lake are revealed through the complementary application of geophysics, sedimentology, radiocarbon dating, and geomorphology. © 2020 The Authors. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd     

近百年广州中心城区(天河)地表年平均气温变化趋势

根据实际资料,首先通过对建筑物查证,新、旧地图对比,实地访问群众,确定了1908-1944年粤海关气象观测场的确切地理位置为23°06'N,113°05'E。通过对气温对比分析、差值订正、回归分析、置信度检验,得出1908-1944年粤海关的地表年平均气温比天河高0.392℃;据1960-1997年同步资料比较得出,作为研究气温的气候变化趋势,1998年以后的天河站地表年平均气温可用番禺站作参考。对订正后具有连续性、代表性、均一性的资料序列进行趋势分析得出,广州中心城区天河1914-2013年的地表年平均气温上升率为1.75℃/100 a,高于同一时段全球地表年平均气温上升率(0.72℃/100 a),原因与20世纪80年代末出现热岛现象及快速城市化有关。     

The late Miocene onset of high productivity in the Benguela Current upwelling system as part of a global pattern

We have examined the history of the elevated primary productivity associated with the Benguela Current upwelling system off southwest Africa using sediments from 7.5 to 4.8 Ma at Ocean Drilling Program Site 1085 in the middle Cape Basin. Sedimentation rates are low until 6.9 Ma. Low accumulation rates of benthic foraminifers and organic carbon indicate that biological productivity was also low. Paleoproductivity dramatically increased at 6.7–6.5 Ma and was highly variable until 4.8 Ma with productivity maxima during cooler periods. The presence of radiolarian opal only between 5.8 and 5.2 Ma suggests an interlude of silica-rich intermediate water in the Cape Basin. The onset of heightened productivity under the Benguela Current is mirrored by similar increases reported between 6.9 and 6.7 Ma in the tropical eastern Pacific, the western and northern Pacific, and the Indian Ocean. The similarity between the patterns at Site 1085 and in the Pacific and Indian Oceans suggests that the dramatic productivity increase off southwest Africa is part of a global response to paleoceanographic changes.     

Geomorphic and cosmogenic nuclide constraints on escarpment evolution in an intraplate setting,Darling Escarpment,Western Australia

The ～900 km long Darling Scarp in Western Australia is one of the most prominent linear topographic features on Earth. Despite the presence of over‐steepened reaches in all westerly flowing streams crossing the scarp, and significant seismic activity within 100 km of the scarp, there is no historical seismicity and no reported evidence for Quaternary tectonic displacements on the underlying Darling Fault. Consequently, it is unclear whether the scarp is a rapidly evolving landform responding to recent tectonic and/or climatic forcing or a more slowly evolving landform. In order to quantify late Quaternary rates of erosion and scarp relief processes, we obtained measurements of the cosmic‐ray produced nuclide beryllium‐10 (¹⁰Be) from outcropping bedrock surfaces along the scarp summit and face, in valley floors, and at stream knickpoints. Erosion rates of bedrock outcrops along the scarp summit surface range from 0·5 to 4·0 m Myr^?1. These are in the same range as erosion rates of 2·1 to 3·6 m Myr^?1 on the scarp face and similar to river incision rates of 2·6 to 11·0 m Myr^?1 from valley floor bedrock straths, indicating that the Darling Scarp is a slowly eroding ‘steady state’ landform, without any significant contemporary relief production over the last several 100 kyr and possibly several million years. Knickpoint retreat rates determined from ¹⁰Be concentrations at the bases of two knickpoints on small streams incised into the scarp are 36 and 46 m Myr^?1. If these erosion rates were sustained over longer timescales, then associated knickpoints may have initiated in the mid‐Tertiary to early Neogene, consistent with early‐mid Tertiary marginal uplift. Ongoing maintenance of stream disequilibrium longitudinal profiles is consistent with slow, regional base level lowering associated with recently proposed continental‐scale tilting, as opposed to differential uplift along discrete faults. Cosmogenic ¹⁰Be analysis provides a useful tool for interpreting the palaeoseismic history of intraplate near‐fault landforms over 10⁵ to 10⁶ years. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Tectonic evolution of the ‘Liguride’ accretionary wedge in the Cilento area,southern Italy: A record of early Apennine geodynamics

The early stages of southern Apennine development have been unraveled by integrating the available stratigraphic record provided by synorogenic strata (of both foredeep and wedge-top basin environments) with new structural data on the Liguride accretionary wedge cropping out in the Cilento area, southern Italy. Our results indicate that the final oceanic subduction stages and early deformation of the distal part of the Apulian continental margin were controlled by dominant NW–SE shortening. Early Miocene subduction-accretion, subsequent wedge emplacement on top of the Apulian continental margin and onset of footwall imbrication involving detached Apulian continental margin carbonate successions were followed by extensional deformation of the previously ‘obducted’ accretionary wedge. Wedge thinning also enhanced the development of accommodation space, filled by the dominantly siliciclastic Cilento Group deposits. The accretionary wedge units and the unconformably overlying wedge-top basin sediments experienced renewed NW–SE shortening immediately following the deposition of the Cilento Group (reaching the early Tortonian), confirming that the preceding wedge thinning represented an episode of synorogenic extension occurring within the general framework of NW–SE convergence. The documented Early to the Late Miocene steps of southern Apennine development are clearly distinct with respect to the subsequent (late Tortonian-Quaternary) stages of fold and thrust belt evolution coeval with Tyrrhenian back-arc extension, which were characterized by NE-directed thrusting in the southern Apennines.     

Techniques for assessing spatial heterogeneity of carbonate δ13C values: Implications for craton‐wide isotope gradients

The sedimentary record of carbonate carbon isotopes (δ¹³C_carb) provides one of the best methods for correlating marine strata and understanding the long‐term evolution of the global carbon cycle. This work focuses on the Late Ordovician Guttenberg isotopic carbon excursion, a ca 2·5‰ positive δ¹³C_carb excursion that is found in strata globally. Substantial variability in the apparent magnitude and stratigraphic morphology of the Guttenberg excursion at different localities has hampered high‐resolution correlations and led to divergent reconstructions of ocean chemistry and the biogeochemical carbon cycle. This work investigates the magnitude, spatial scale and sources of isotopic variability of the Guttenberg excursion in two sections from Missouri, USA. Centimetre‐scale isotope transects revealed variations in δ¹³C_carb and δ¹⁸O_carb greater than 2‰ across individual beds. Linear δ¹³C_carb to δ¹⁸O_carb mixing lines, together with petrographic and elemental abundance data, demonstrate that much of the isotopic scatter in single beds is due to mixing of isotopically distinct components. These patterns facilitated objective sample screening to determine the ‘least‐altered’ data. A δ¹⁸O_carb filter based on empirical δ¹⁸O_carb values of well‐preserved carbonate mudstones allowed further sample discrimination. The resulting ‘least‐altered’ δ¹³C_carb profile improves the understanding of regional as well as continental‐scale stratigraphic relations in this interval. Correlations with other Laurentian sections strongly suggest that: (i) small‐scale variability in Guttenberg excursion δ¹³C_carb values may result in part from local diagenetic overprinting; (ii) peak‐Guttenberg excursion δ¹³C_carb values of the Midcontinent are not distinct from their Taconic equivalents; and (iii) no primary continental‐scale spatial gradient in δ¹³C_carb (for example, arising from chemically distinct ‘aquafacies’) is required during Guttenberg excursion‐time. This study demonstrates the importance of detailed petrographic and geochemical screening of samples to be used for δ¹³C_carb chemostratigraphy and for enhancing understanding of epeiric ocean chemistry.     

The Early Devonian Coopers Creek Limestone: A deep‐water redeposited limestone in the Melbourne Trough,southeastern Australia

The Coopers Creek Limestone represents an Early Devonian redeposited carbonate accumulation and records the evolution of a carbonate slope in the southeastern portion of the Melbourne Trough. During the earliest Devonian, the underlying Boola Formation was deposited, probably as turbidites, in a moderately deep‐water setting. The presence of chert and greenstone clasts in the top of the formation indicates exposure of an area of Cambrian greenstones in this part of the Melbourne Trough, as a result of uplift associated with the earliest Devonian Bowning Orogeny. This uplift provided ideal conditions for carbonate production along the margin of the exposed landmass. The periodic transportation of carbonate material downslope resulted in the accumulation of the Coopers Creek Limestone. Initially, in the early Pragian, turbidity currents deposited clayey biomicrites and biopelmicrites on a relatively gentle slope. However, the rapid build‐up of carbonate sand banks at the shelf margin steepened the gradient from the shelf into the basin and a bypass margin began to develop. Grainflows deposited pelsparites and biopelsparites and the presence of debris flow breccias indicates erosion of lithified limestone by channelling. Continued carbonate build‐up led to the development of a rimmed reef margin in the earliest Emsian, with a steep fore‐reef gradient. Large blocks of reefal limestone fell or rolled to the base of the slope, to accumulate as reefal megabreccias at the top of the Coopers Creek Limestone. Carbonate production abruptly ceased in the early Emsian, due to the uplift of a quartzo‐micaceous source to the east during the initial stages of the Tabberabberan Orogeny. This uplift supplied abundant terrigenous material into the Melbourne Trough to be deposited as the turbidites of the Walhalla Group, which deeply buried the limestone accumulation.     

Slumping in the Marra Mamba Supersequence Package in the southern Hamersley Province,Western Australia

Detailed mapping of the Hardey Syncline region at the Marra Mamba Supersequence Package closure, in the southwestern part of the Hamersley Province, has indicated that a hiatus in parts of the Jeerinah Formation was probably caused by submarine slumping during sedimentation. A similar hiatus at the base of the Jeerinah Formation farther west, noted on air photographs, is attributed to the same cause. Removal by slumping, and redeposition westwards, could account for olistostromes which were previously recorded in the Jeerinah Formation at Mt Edith and Mt de Courcey on the southern rim of the Wyloo Dome.     

Thrust tectonics and paleogene syntectonic sedimentation in the Empordà area,southeastern Pyrenees

Abstract

The structure of the southern Pyrenees, east of the Albanyà fault (Empordà area), consists of several Alpine thrust sheets. From bottom upwards three main structural units can be distinguished : the Roc de Frausa, the Biure-Bac Grillera and the Figueres units. The former involves basement and Paleogene cover rocks. This unit is deformed by E-W trending kilometric-scale folds, its north dipping floor thrust represents the sole thrust in this area. The middle unit is formed by an incomplete Mesozoic succession overlain by Garumnian and Eocene sediments. Mesozoic rocks internal structure consists of an imbricate stack. The floor thrust dips to the south and climbs up section southwards. The upper unit exibits the most complete Mesozoic sequence. Its floor thrust is subhorizontal. The lower and middle units thrust in a piggy-back sequence. The upper unit was emplaced out of sequence.

Lower Eocene sedimentation in the Biure-Bac Grillera unit was controlled by emergent imbricate thrusts and synchronic extensional faults. One of these faults (La Salut fault) represents the boundary between a platform domain in the footwall and a subsident trough in the hangingwall. Southward thrust propagation produces the inversion of these faults and the development of cleavage-related folds in their hangingwalls (buttressing effect). This inversion is also recorded by syntectonic deposits, which have been grouped in four depositional sequences. The lower sequences represent the filling on the hangingwall trough and the upper sequences the spreading of clastics to the south once the extensional movement ends.