S. Rodríguez, I. Said, I. Somerville, P. Cózar, I. Coronado
{"title":"Serpukhovian coral assemblages from Idmarrach and Tirhela Formations (Adarouch, Morocco)","authors":"S. Rodríguez, I. Said, I. Somerville, P. Cózar, I. Coronado","doi":"10.20341/GB.2015.019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20341/GB.2015.019","url":null,"abstract":"1. IntroductionThe Carboniferous stratigraphic successions in Adarouch (central Morocco) range in age from the middle Visean up to the Bashkirian (Fig. 1). They are composed of both siliciclastic and carbonate rocks that occur in several faulted blocks (Berkhli, 1999; Vachard et al., 2006) and show excellent exposures that are prolific in diverse fossil groups such as foraminiferans, algae, brachiopods, conodonts, bryozoans, crinoids and corals. The description of the Serpukhovian coral assemblages from that area and their biostratigraphic, palaeogeographic and palaeoecologic implications is the main aim of this paper, which is presented as an homage to Eddy Poty, who studied the Mississippian corals during the last 40 years, providing much valuable data to our knowledge of both rugose corals and Carboniferous rocks. The first reference to the presence of rugose corals in the Adarouch area was provided by Termier & Termier (1950), who mentioned the Tizra outcrops at Adarouch and described Dibunophyllum vaughani from that locality. Termier et al. (1975) regarded the Adarouch outcrops to range in age from the Visean to Serpukhovian. Later, Berkhli (1999) provided detailed stratigraphical and palaeontological data and defined three depositional sequences in the Carboniferous of Adarouch. He studied the Carboniferous stratigraphy of the Tizra Hills and defined the Oued Amhares Formation at the base, the Tizra and Mouarhaz formations in the middle and the Akerchi Formation at the","PeriodicalId":12812,"journal":{"name":"Geologica Belgica","volume":"22 1","pages":"29-42"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2016-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90809365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Rugose corals and refinements of the Tournaisian biostratigraphy of the Donets Basin (Ukraine)","authors":"V. Ogar","doi":"10.20341/GB.2016.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20341/GB.2016.007","url":null,"abstract":"1. IntroductionIn the Donets Basin (Ukraine) the Tournaisian rocks are commonly fossiliferous carbonates. A detailed lithostratigraphic and biostratigraphic division has been achieved over the last decades (Aizenverg et al., 1963; Poletaev et al., 1990; Poletaev et al., 2011). Rugose and tabulate corals are widely distributed in some part of the sections. M.I. Lebedev and K.I. Lisitzin first identified Tournaisian corals of the Donbas early in the 20th century and used these fossils as guides to divide the sections and to correlate them with England and Belgium. I.I. Gorsky and V.D. Fomichev studied the Early Carboniferous corals of the Donets Basin during the 1920’s, but their studies have never been completed, and their collections were lost. Only brief and limited results of these studies have been published by Fomichev (1953) and Vassilyuk (1960). Vassilyuk studied the Early Carboniferous corals of the Donets Basin in detail and has proposed a coral zonation for the Lower Carboniferous strata (Poletaev et al., 1990). The stratigraphic distribution of corals taxa in the Tournaisian strata is highly heterogeneous. Most corals are found in the middle part of the Tournaisian (C1tc Zone) (Ogar, 2010). In the lower and upper parts of the Tournaisian, corals are much rarer. Unexpected new findings are reported in this paper, together with the redescription of specimens from Vassiljuk’s collection.2. SettingsThe southern part of the Donets Basin is the only area in Ukraine where","PeriodicalId":12812,"journal":{"name":"Geologica Belgica","volume":"8 1","pages":"21-28"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2016-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84251722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Upper and uppermost Famennian (Devonian) brachiopods from north-western France (Avesnois) and southern Belgium","authors":"Bernard Mottequin, D. Brice","doi":"10.20341/GB.2016.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20341/GB.2016.004","url":null,"abstract":"1. Introduction As noted by several authors (e.g. Gosselet, 1857; Cooper, 1954; Conil et al., 1986; Simakov, 1990; Mottequin et al., 2014), radiations were recorded among several brachiopod orders during the uppermost Famennian (Upper Devonian). Numerous productide, spiriferide, spiriferinide and rhynchonellide genera first appeared during this interval and are characterized by morphological features heralding the Mississippian brachiopod faunas. Brice et al. (2013) recently stressed that the brachiopod data related to the uppermost Famennian of the Avesnois (north-western France) (Fig. 1), which is the historical type area of the Strunian (Streel et al., 2006), strongly need to be updated in order to detail the consequences of the Hangenberg Crisis (Kaiser et al., 2011, 2015). In this area, the last comprehensive study on uppermost Famennian brachiopods dates back to Dehee (1929). His study, based on Gosselet, Delepine, Carpentier and Dehee’s material, is poorly stratigraphically constrained and some elements of the fauna described by Dehee (1929), such as the atrypides, were not obtained from the uppermost Famennian (Copper, 1986). The brachiopods were subsequently and partly revised by Vandercammen (1956), Legrand-Blain (1991), Brice (1997), Nicollin (2004, 2008) and Brice et al. (2013). The situation is more critical in southern Belgium where the mixed carbonate-siliciclastic Strunian facies are relatively similar to those occurring in the Avesnois. In Belgium, the vast m","PeriodicalId":12812,"journal":{"name":"Geologica Belgica","volume":"62 1","pages":"121-134"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2016-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80304531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gigantoproductid brachiopod storm shell beds in the Mississippian of South China: implications for their palaeoenvironmental and palaeogeographical significances","authors":"L. Yao, M. Aretz, Yue Li, Xiangdong Wang","doi":"10.20341/GB.2015.021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20341/GB.2015.021","url":null,"abstract":"1. IntroductionStorm beds are distinct facies criteria on shelves and ramps, which are generated by storm winds, such as cyclones and hurricanes in tropical latitudes and blizzards in middle and high latitudes (Tucker & Wright, 1990; Flugel, 2004). Ager (1973) defined storm beds as tempestites that are commonly characterized by sharp and erosional base, internal structures including accumulations of shells, graded and flat bedding and parallel and cross lamination, and ripple bedding and burrowing presented at the top part (Aigner, 1985; Flugel, 2004; Dattilo et al., 2012). Tempestites are abundant and widely distributed in carbonate environments during the Phanerozoic (e.g. Einsele & Seilacher, 1982; Flugel, 2004). The sedimentary patterns and biotic distributions of tempestites could provide important information in aspects of their depositional process, palaeoenvironment, palaeogeographical location and even stratigraphic comparison (Johnson, 1989; Lehman & Pope, 1989; Flugel, 2004; Jin et al., 2013). Storm shell beds, which are one common type of tempestites and featured by accumulation of shells, were documented during the icehouse periods of the late Ordovician (Lehman & Pope, 1989; Davis, 1999; Jin et al., 2013), early Silurian (Johnson, 1989; Li & Rong, 2007; Jin, 2008) and early Carboniferous (Jeffery & Aigner, 1982; Butts, 2005) and during greenhouse climate, as in the middle Ordovician (McFarland et al., 1999), late Permian (Simoes & Kowalewski, 1998), early Triass","PeriodicalId":12812,"journal":{"name":"Geologica Belgica","volume":"7 1","pages":"57-67"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2016-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89316900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of some Frasnian ahermatypic coral localities from Germany and description of a new genus Spinaxon (Anthozoa, Rugosa, Upper Devonian)","authors":"D. Weyer","doi":"10.20341/GB.2015.020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20341/GB.2015.020","url":null,"abstract":"1. IntroductionThe Palaeozoic superorder Rugosa passed through several crises before the final extinction at the Permian–Triassic boundary. The most important one, the global Upper Kellwasser Event at the Frasnian–Famennian boundary, led to the disappearance of all coral reefs; they reappeared during top-Famennian times (Strunian). For a long period, the coral world of the Famennian (both photic and aphotic zones) was a terra incognita – but this changed surprisingly after the monograph of Polish ahermatypic Famennian Rugosa (Rozkowska, 1969), and with the discovery of similar faunas mainly in Germany and Morocco, and also in northern China (Liao & Cai, 1987; Cai, 1988; Wu & Liao, 1988; Guo 1990). Knowledge about Famennian shallow water Rugosa increased more slowly: especially through Sorauf (1992: unique first upper Famennian, though pre-Strunian Rugosa fauna from North America) and Berkowski (2002: first upper Famennian, also pre-Strunian survivors of Frasnian Phillipsastreidae in Poland). Unfortunately, up to now there still are no certain Rugosa occurrences from the basal Famennian (Lower, Middle, and Upper Palmatolepis triangularis Zones, perhaps also Lower Palmatolepis crepida Zone). The only one Rugosa, which I could collect from the Middle Palmatolepis triangularis Zone, together with Nephranops incisus (Roemer, 1866), was an undeterminable ampleximorph taxon from Rubeland in the German Harz Mts.At present, the Upper Givetian and the Frasnian ahermatypic Rugosa are th","PeriodicalId":12812,"journal":{"name":"Geologica Belgica","volume":"20 1","pages":"147-163"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2016-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89972641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Kulm Facies of the Montagne Noire (Mississippian, southern France)","authors":"M. Aretz","doi":"10.20341/GB.2015.018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20341/GB.2015.018","url":null,"abstract":"1. IntroductionWith the beginning of geological and stratigraphical research in Western Europe in the early 19th century, two main marine facies realms have been identified in the lower Carboniferous (Mississippian) strata based on specific lithologies and organic content. The Carboniferous Limestone or Kohlenkalk represents the shallow-water platform facies and was first identified in the British Isles and Southern Belgium. The Kulm is equivalent of the deeper water, basinal facies of the German Rhenohercynian Basin (Fig. 1). Both names are still widely in use and especially the Kulm has been exported outside its regional and stratigraphical context.Figure 1. Localisation of the main outcrops of Kulm Facies in the framework of Variscan Europe. The attribution of the regions 5-6 in the southern Variscides is disputable. Kulm deposits in Variscan massifs included in Alpine mountain chains (e.g. Betic Cordillera) have been omitted except for the Pyrenees. The division into large tectonic units is from Franke (2014).One of these examples is found in southwest France. Here, south of the Massif Central, the remnants of a Mississippian foreland basin are exposed in the Montagne Noire, the Mouthoumet Massif and the Pyrenees (Fig. 1). The best-exposed and most complete succession is found in the Montagne Noire (Figs 1, 2). It is the aim of the paper to summarize the currently available data on the Kulm Facies of that region, to discuss a depositional model, to place the succession in","PeriodicalId":12812,"journal":{"name":"Geologica Belgica","volume":"30 1","pages":"69-80"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84571156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Potyphyllum, a new phillipsastreid genus of rugose corals in the Upper Frasnian of Belgium with precisions about the age of the Petit-Mont Member","authors":"M. Coen-Aubert","doi":"10.20341/GB.2015.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20341/GB.2015.016","url":null,"abstract":"1. IntroductionThis work serves as conclusion for the revision of massive rugose corals belonging to the family Phillipsastreidae Roemer, 1883 and occurring in the Upper Frasnian of Belgium. The diverse species of Frechastraea Scrutton, 1968 have been investigated in detail by Coen-Aubert (2012, 2015). As for Phillipsastrea D’Orbigny, 1849, P. falsa Coen-Aubert, 1987 and P. ranciae Coen-Aubert, 1987 were described by Coen-Aubert (1987) and P. conili Tsien, 1978 was studied by Coen-Aubert (1994). The present paper is concerned with two pseudocerioid species like Frechastraea, but with larger corallites, which have been previously ascribed to Phillipsastrea, but which are herein assigned to the new genus Potyphyllum based on Cyathophyllum ananas Goldfuss, 1826 as type species. Most Belgian occurrences of Potyphyllum ananas and P. veserense (Coen-Aubert, 1974) characterize the Upper Palmatolepis rhenana conodont Zone. As mentioned by Coen-Aubert (2012, 2015), the base of the Upper Frasnian has been fixed by the Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy, at the entry of the conodont Palmatolepis semichatovae. In Belgium, the entry of P. semichatovae is observed within the Lower Palmatolepis rhenana Zone, together with the first occurrence of Ancyrognathus triangularis whereas the massive rugose coral Frechastraea coeni Coen-Aubert, 2012 can be considered as an excellent marker for the base of the Upper Frasnian. As it is explained by Coen-Aubert (2015), the expression Namur Basin is","PeriodicalId":12812,"journal":{"name":"Geologica Belgica","volume":"51 1","pages":"165-175"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2016-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76622425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Denayer, M. Aretz, Laurent Barchy, Emmanuel Chevalier, V. Fischer, L. Hance, J. Marion, Bernard Mottequin
{"title":"Edouard Poty: a bio- and bibliography","authors":"J. Denayer, M. Aretz, Laurent Barchy, Emmanuel Chevalier, V. Fischer, L. Hance, J. Marion, Bernard Mottequin","doi":"10.20341/GB.2016.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20341/GB.2016.001","url":null,"abstract":"‘Generalist’ is a qualifying word that best describes Edouard – ‘Eddy’ – Poty in term of knowledge. He is not just a well-known palaeontologist. Passionate in all branches of geology, he developed an exceptional background and became one of the very few feeling comfortable out of his area of expertise and capable of seeing the bridges connecting field observations. His research and publications do not necessarily reflect his wide knowledge but those who have or have had the chance to work with him know that Eddy is a living encyclopedia. Moreover, his interest largely crosses over the borders of geology and he can with erudition discuss archaeology, history, architecture, volcanoes, anthropology, literature, cuisine and wine! To understand the man, let us visit his career.Born in 1949 in Seraing, near Liege in Belgium, the young Eddy quickly found his interest in fossils after he discovered brachiopods in the excavation made for the construction of a bridge in Esneux. His first fossils… and the beginning of a life-long passion for geology. During his childhood and teenage years, he used to search for fossils and minerals while on holiday with his parents, but also around Liege. In 1967, he entered the University of Liege to study geology (at that time ‘Geological and Mineralogical Sciences’) and learned from Prof. Belliere, Michot and Ubaghs among others. Four years later he presented his master’s thesis on Visean corals. His scientific career was not yet cast because militar","PeriodicalId":12812,"journal":{"name":"Geologica Belgica","volume":"24 1","pages":"3-6"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2016-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73203290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Settlement strategy in Symplectophyllum (Cnidaria, Rugosa)","authors":"J. Pickett","doi":"10.20341/GB.2015.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20341/GB.2015.015","url":null,"abstract":"1. IntroductionThe larger solitary corals of the Early Carboniferous in eastern Australia – Amygdalophyllum Dun & Benson, 1920, Merlewoodia Pickett, 1967 and Symplectophyllum Hill, 1934 – have broad dissepimentaria characterised by an outer zone of large and irregular lonsdaleoid dissepiments, axial of which is a zone of naotic dissepiments, with regular dissepiments only the innermost zone. By contrast, the septa of the inner part of the corallite are thickened and braced by tabulae and regular dissepiments, and the axial structure is robust (except in Merlewoodia). Specimens of these genera are usually recovered as decorticated individuals, having undergone some penecontemporaneous erosion. Because of the zone of lonsdaleoid dissepiments, the outer part of the corallite is fragile, and little erosion is needed for decortication. Occasionally however, notably at a locality on “Pinaroo Plain” station at Caroda, near Bingara, New South Wales, specimens of Symplectophyllum are commonly found in growth position within larger colonies of the tabulate genus Syringopora, the growth direction of the two species being subparallel. More rarely they may be associated with branching lithostrotionids such as Cionodendron Benson & Smith, 1923 or Pickettodendron Denayer & Webb, 2015. The dynamics of this association form the subject of this article.2. Localities and ageTwo localities are the principal sources of the present material. The first, which has provided the largest number of spec","PeriodicalId":12812,"journal":{"name":"Geologica Belgica","volume":"81 1","pages":"43-56"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80514728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Welkenhuysen, A. Brüstle, M. Bottig, A. Ramírez, R. Swennen, K. Piessens
{"title":"A techno-economic approach for capacity assessment and ranking of potential options for geological storage of CO2 in Austria","authors":"K. Welkenhuysen, A. Brüstle, M. Bottig, A. Ramírez, R. Swennen, K. Piessens","doi":"10.20341/GB.2016.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20341/GB.2016.012","url":null,"abstract":"1. IntroductionThe global average concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has risen from 280 ppmv in pre-industrial times to almost 400 ppmv early 2014 (Keeling et al., 2014). Anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gasses (GHG) such as CO2 from burning fossil fuels are a main contributor to this rise, causing global climate change (IPCC, 2014). CO2 capture and geological storage (CCS) is a potential means to significantly reduce emissions from large stationary industrial facilities (IPCC, 2005). CO2 is captured, purified, pressurized and transported to a suitable injection location. This location is determined by the presence of a suitable geological reservoir for safe and permanent storage. Possible reservoirs include depleted hydrocarbon fields, deep saline aquifers, man-made cavities and active hydrocarbon fields where CO2 is injected to enhance hydrocarbon production.Several studies have indicated that storage capacity is available in Europe, although it is not evenly distributed (Christensen & Holloway, 2004; Vangkilde-Pedersen et al., 2009). Long-distance and cross-border transport may therefore become inevitable (Neele et al., 2013). For countries with limited capacity, there are however a number of reasons to consider the development of domestic reservoirs instead of relying solely on export for CO2 storage. Apart from the possible strategic advantage, these reasons mainly come down to a potential lower transport and storage cost. Scharf & Clemens (2006) provided a first","PeriodicalId":12812,"journal":{"name":"Geologica Belgica","volume":"1 1","pages":"237-249"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77997031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}