Tracing sediment pathways by zircon fission track analysis: Oligocene marine connections in Central Europe |
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Authors: | Cornelia Spiegel Joachim Kuhlemann Wolfgang Frisch |
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Institution: | 1.Institut für Geowissenschaften,Universit?t Tübingen,Tübingen,Germany |
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Abstract: | In this study, we use contrasting zircon fission track age signatures of Alpine detritus and detritus derived from the Variscan realm to trace sediment pathways in Central Europe. Our data show that the Molasse Basin was connected with the Rhine Graben Sea during the Mid-Oligocene, thus joining the North Sea to the Paratethys. Within the Rhine Graben Sea, fairly strong south–north directed currents existed, transporting sand-sized Alpine detritus nearly 300 km towards the north. A connection between the Rhône-Bresse Graben and the Rhine Graben and/or the French Molasse Basin and the Swiss Molasse Basin, by contrast, is not supported by the fission track data. This may be explained by the existence of submarine rises that hampered the transport of sand-sized sediment towards the north/northeast. |
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Keywords: | Fission track Rhine Graben Rh?ne-Bresse Graben Molasse Basin Paleogeography |
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