TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kaya, Mustafa Yuecel
A1  - Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume
A1  - Proust, Jean-Noël
A1  - Roperch, Pierrick
A1  - Meijer, Niels
A1  - Frieling, Joost
A1  - Fioroni, Chiara
A1  - Altiner, Sevinç Özkan
A1  - Stoica, Marius
A1  - Aminov, Jovid
A1  - Mamtimin, Mehmut
A1  - Guo, Zhaojie
T1  - Cretaceous evolution of the Central Asian Proto-Paratethys Sea
T2  - Tectonics
N2  - The timing and mechanisms of the Cretaceous sea incursions into Central Asia are still poorly constrained. We provide a new chronostratigraphic framework based on biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy together with detailed paleoenvironmental analyses of Cretaceous records of the proto-Paratethys Sea fluctuations in the Tajik and Tarim basins. The Early Cretaceous marine incursion in the western Tajik Basin was followed by major marine incursions during the Cenomanian (ca. 100 Ma) and Santonian (ca. 86 Ma) that reached far into the eastern Tajik and Tarim basins. These marine incursions were separated by a Turonian-Coniacian (ca. 92-86 Ma) regression. Basin-wide tectonic subsidence analyses imply that the Early Cretaceous sea incursion into the Tajik Basin was related to increased Pamir tectonism. We find that thrusting along the northern edge of the Pamir at ca. 130-90 Ma resulted in increased subsidence in a retro-arc basin setting. This tectonic event and coeval eustatic highstand resulted in the maximum observed geographic extent of the sea during the Cenomanian (ca. 100 Ma). The following Turonian-Coniacian (ca. 92-86 Ma) major regression, driven by eustasy, coincides with a sharp slowdown in tectonic subsidence during the late orogenic unloading period with limited thrusting. The Santonian (ca. 86 Ma) major sea incursion was likely controlled by eustasy as evidenced by the coeval fluctuations in the west Siberian Basin. An early Maastrichtian cooling (ca. 71-70 Ma), potentially connected to global Late Cretaceous trends, is inferred from the replacement of mollusk-rich limestones by bryozoan- and echinoderm-rich limestones.
Y1  - 2020
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/56349
SN  - 0278-7407
SN  - 1944-9194
VL  - 39
IS  - 9
PB  - American Geophysical Union
CY  - Washington
ER  -