The record of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum in the Ager Basin (Central Pyrenees, Spain)

• Autores: N. Minelli, Vicenzo Manzi, M. Roveri
• Localización: Geologica acta: an international earth science journal, ISSN 1695-6133, Vol. 11, Nº. 4, 2013, págs. 421-441
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The sedimentary record straddling the Paleocene/Eocene boundary in the Ager Basin (southern Central Pyrenees) was investigated by combining facies analysis, sequence stratigraphy and stable isotope data, within an interval characterized by a great variability of depositional environments. The occurrence of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) climatic anomaly is tentatively constrained by analogy with its stratigraphic range in the adjacent Tremp-Graus Basin. The main body of the carbon isotope excursion associated with the PETM may be recorded by lacustrine carbonates characterized by a ~ -3� shift in d13C with respect to analogous deposits of Thanetian age; a similar shift is recorded between in situ and resedimented pedogenic carbonates, a feature that suggests the partial erosion of the P/E boundary in the Ager Basin.