A Milankovitch scale for Cenomanian time

Andrew S. Gale,

Andrew S. Gale

School of Earth Sciences, Thames Polytechnic, Walburgh House, Bigland Street, London El 2NG

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Andrew S. Gale,

Andrew S. Gale

School of Earth Sciences, Thames Polytechnic, Walburgh House, Bigland Street, London El 2NG

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First published: September 1989

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3121.1989.tb00403.x

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ABSTRACT

A detailed cyclostratigraphy is present in the rhythmically bedded Cenomanian hemipelagic chalks of the northern Anglo-Paris Basin, which can be correlated over 100,000 km². Individual decimetre-scale couplets probably represent the precession cycle (modes at 18 or 23 kyr), and can be readily grouped in sets averaging five, indicative of the short cycle of eccentricity (100 kyr). A composite cyclostratigraphy for the basin is presented here, and is used as the basis for a Cenomanian time-scale (20 and 100 kyr units). The total duration of the Cenomanian thus obtained (4.4 Myr) compares well with recent radiometric dates of 4.0–4.5 Myr. The time-scale is used to estimate the length of ammonite, inoceramid, and planktonic foraminiferal zones, the rates of formation of authigenic minerals (glauconite), sedimentation rates and the duration of transgressions and anoxic events.

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