GffPub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/11035897.2019.1566273
T. Mörs, Liping Liu, J. Hagström
{"title":"A Miocene tetraconodontine (Suidae, Mammalia) from Falkenberg (Halland, Sweden)","authors":"T. Mörs, Liping Liu, J. Hagström","doi":"10.1080/11035897.2019.1566273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2019.1566273","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT An isolated suid molar from Falkenberg in Halland, Sweden, is attributed to the extinct Miocene subfamily Tetraconodontinae based on general tooth morphology. The m3 is high-crowned and possesses a shorter talonid than other European tetraconodontines, judging from those species where the m3 is known. The most unusual feature is the highly lifted hypoconulid. Due to these specific dental features, it is not possible to assign the tooth to any known tetraconodontine species, but the material is also insufficient to create a new species. Based on the tooth dimensions, the Falkenberg suid was of the size of a peccary. The biostratigraphic range of Tetraconodontinae in Europe is 15–10 Ma, which implies an Early to Late Miocene age for the tooth. As no Miocene deposits are found in Sweden, the specimen was probably transported from the nearest source area in Southern Jutland, Denmark, by ice rafting. The Falkenberg tooth represents one of the northernmost records of European Miocene land mammals.","PeriodicalId":55094,"journal":{"name":"Gff","volume":"141 1","pages":"77 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/11035897.2019.1566273","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42936529","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}
GffPub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/11035897.2018.1525620
S. Egenhoff, N. Fishman, H. Lowers, P. Ahlberg
{"title":"The complexity of mudstone diagenesis – some insight from the Tøyen Shale, Lower to Middle Ordovician, southern Sweden","authors":"S. Egenhoff, N. Fishman, H. Lowers, P. Ahlberg","doi":"10.1080/11035897.2018.1525620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2018.1525620","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Lower to Middle Ordovician Tøyen Shale in southern Sweden, a biostratigraphically well-dated siliciclastic mudstone unit, shows 18 distinct authigenic cements that include sulfides, carbonates, silicates, clays, and phosphates. Marcasite, sphalerite, galena, and six texturally distinct types of pyrite characterize the sulfides whereas only one type of dolomite and three different generations of calcite are observed in this unit. Quartz, phosphate, and organic matter occur as only one generation each. Authigenic clay minerals are represented by chlorite and kaolinite. The paragenetic sequence of cements is subdivided into the two pre-burial carbonates, succeeded by ten relatively early burial cements, and six late burial cements, the kaolinite being the latest of them all and potentially being of Cretaceous age. Based on textural relationships, the paragenetic sequence of alterations started with dolomite precipitation followed by calcite, and then five different generations of pyrite. All eleven other phases post-date these initial seven cements in the Tøyen Shale.","PeriodicalId":55094,"journal":{"name":"Gff","volume":"141 1","pages":"54 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/11035897.2018.1525620","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43295113","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}
GffPub Date : 2018-11-15DOI: 10.1080/11035897.2018.1526209
Zmar Sarlus, O. Martinsson, Tobias E. Bauer, C. Wanhainen, J. Andersson, R. Nordin
{"title":"Character and tectonic setting of plutonic rocks in the Gällivare area, northern Norrbotten, Sweden","authors":"Zmar Sarlus, O. Martinsson, Tobias E. Bauer, C. Wanhainen, J. Andersson, R. Nordin","doi":"10.1080/11035897.2018.1526209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2018.1526209","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Petrographical and lithogeochemical investigations in combination with mapping in the Gällivare area, northern Norrbotten, Sweden, have led to the identification of several igneous intrusive rock types. These include: (1) ultramafic-mafic complexes, (2) mafic-intermediate rocks, (3) dolerites and (4) felsic plutons. The ultramafic-mafic rocks include the ca. 1.88 Ga Dundret complex and ca. 1.80 Ga Vassaravaara complex. The Dundret complex has tholeiitic to calc-alkaline affinity, shows a primitive mineral content and was formed in an extensional tectonic setting. The Vassaravaara complex has a similar chemical signature as the Dundret complex. The mafic-intermediate plutons vary in composition from gabbro to diorite. The chemical signature of the dioritic rocks indicate formation in a volcanic arc setting. Dolerites occur as solitary dikes and have calc-alkaline affinity. The felsic plutons include granite and syenite of ca. 1.88, 1.80 and 1.78 Ga age. The felsic plutons have calc-alkaline to shoshonitic affinity and mostly show a metaluminous I-type character. Results indicate subduction at 1.90 Ga resulting in a volcanic arc system, and including extensional events generating back-arc environments leading to mafic, intermediate and felsic magmatism in the Gällivare area. Subduction at 1.80 Ga is suggested to have caused a similar process generating mafic and felsic magmatic rocks in the same area. A subsequent collision event finally generated 1.78 Ga granitic rocks.","PeriodicalId":55094,"journal":{"name":"Gff","volume":"141 1","pages":"1 - 20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/11035897.2018.1526209","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42156343","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}
GffPub Date : 2018-10-09DOI: 10.1080/11035897.2018.1525619
E. Jonsson, K. Högdahl
{"title":"On the occurrence of gallium and germanium in the Bergslagen ore province, Sweden","authors":"E. Jonsson, K. Högdahl","doi":"10.1080/11035897.2018.1525619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2018.1525619","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The presence of the critical and sought-after (semi-)metals gallium (Ga) and germanium (Ge) has previously been reported from mineralisations in the Bergslagen ore province, south central Sweden. Some of these reports were however recently shown to be questionable or erroneous. Here we summarise early analytical work on these metals in mineral deposits of the Bergslagen province, as well as briefly report new analytical data for Ga and Ge from recent, in part on-going work on different mineralisation types. The new data show that the sampled sulphide and iron oxide mineralisations in the Bergslagen province are overall not particularly enriched in Ga, and even less so with regards to Ge. One major exception is the significant Ga enrichment observed in skarn-hosted Fe-REE(-polymetallic) deposits of Bastnäs type. Notably, these mineralisations also host increased contents of Ge. Based on this broader suite of sampled deposits, the suggested correlation between Ga and Al contents in previously studied material with relatively increased Ga grades, is in part contradicted, indicating that Ga is only in part sequestered through straightforward Al-substitution into aluminium silicate and oxide minerals. The mineralisations that do exhibit significantly increased Ge contents, in addition to the Bastnäs-type deposits, are represented by both sulphide-dominated ones and Fe (-Mn) oxide-rich systems.","PeriodicalId":55094,"journal":{"name":"Gff","volume":"141 1","pages":"48 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/11035897.2018.1525619","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48976705","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}
GffPub Date : 2018-10-02DOI: 10.1080/11035897.2018.1544588
L. Siliauskas, G. Skridlaitė, B. Bagiński, M. Whitehouse, S. Prušinskienė
{"title":"What the ca. 1.83 Ga gedrite-cordierite schists in the crystalline basement of Lithuania tell us about the late Palaeoproterozoic accretion of the East European Craton","authors":"L. Siliauskas, G. Skridlaitė, B. Bagiński, M. Whitehouse, S. Prušinskienė","doi":"10.1080/11035897.2018.1544588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2018.1544588","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the western East European Craton (EEC), southern Lithuania, a suite of fine-grained, thinly bedded rocks of unusual composition has been shown to have originally comprised intermediate and felsic volcanic rocks. They extruded at ca. 1.83 Ga and were hydrothermally altered prior to metamorphism, which converted them into garnet-, gedrite-, anthophyllite-, staurolite- and cordierite-bearing schists. After the rocks have experienced a 630°C and 7 kbar metamorphism, they were uplifted to 15 km (5 kbar) probably at ca. 1.73 Ga. They were reheated to 640°C at ca. 1.50 Ga (monazite age). The monazite age of ca. 1.50 Ga is coeval with the emplacement of the neighboring 1.50 Ga Anorthosite-Mangerite-Charnockite-Granite (AMCG) Mazury complex. The ca. 1.83 Ga volcanic suites in Lithuania and northern Poland, together with the Oskarshamn-Jönköping belt (OJB) in south-central Sweden, may belong to the same chain of volcanic island arcs, and thus provide information on the evolution of the entire western EEC. The ca. 1.50 Ga metamorphic reworking and the replacement of the Mazury AMCG suite may have been triggered by the Danopolonian orogeny further west and, at a larger scale, accretion of the continental margin of Columbia.","PeriodicalId":55094,"journal":{"name":"Gff","volume":"140 1","pages":"332 - 344"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/11035897.2018.1544588","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42198841","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}
GffPub Date : 2018-10-02DOI: 10.1080/11035897.2018.1526210
O. Bogolepova, S. Donovan, D. Harper, A. Suyarkova, R. Yakupov, A. Gubanov
{"title":"New records of brachiopods and crinoids from the Silurian (Wenlock) of the southern Urals, Russia","authors":"O. Bogolepova, S. Donovan, D. Harper, A. Suyarkova, R. Yakupov, A. Gubanov","doi":"10.1080/11035897.2018.1526210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2018.1526210","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Crinoids and brachiopods are described from the Silurian Uzyan Formation of the Zilair Zone in the southern Urals. The occurrence of the graptolites Coronograptus praedeubeli suggests a late Homerian (Wenlock) age for the strata. A new disparid crinoid, Cicerocrinus gracilis Donovan sp. nov., is the oldest known member of this genus. It has a long, flexible and homeomorphic column, and a tall bryozoan palaeontology terminology (IBr2) (second primibrachial) axillary. All species of Cicerocrinus described previously have been limited to the Ludlow of the British Isles, Sweden and Estonia, and the Pridoli of Estonia. The poorly preserved brachiopod fauna is represented by small atrypid (Atrypa? sp.) and dalmanellid brachiopods (Levenea? sp.). The reported assemblage generally inhabited deep-water environments.","PeriodicalId":55094,"journal":{"name":"Gff","volume":"140 1","pages":"323 - 331"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/11035897.2018.1526210","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41704644","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}
GffPub Date : 2018-09-19DOI: 10.1080/11035897.2018.1492963
Colby A. Smith, S. Grigull, Henrik Mikko
{"title":"Geomorphic evidence of multiple surface ruptures of the Merasjärvi “postglacial fault”, northern Sweden","authors":"Colby A. Smith, S. Grigull, Henrik Mikko","doi":"10.1080/11035897.2018.1492963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2018.1492963","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Postglacial faults in Sweden are generally believed to have ruptured to the surface once either during or shortly after the late Weichselian deglaciation. Stratigraphic data from multiple scarps support or are consistent with this hypothesis and, until now, no data refute it. This study presents geomorphic evidence that a segment of the Merasjärvi fault in northern Sweden ruptured to the surface at least twice. The timing of the fault ruptures is poorly constrained because the scarp lies within a preserved glacial landscape. Crosscutting relationships indicate that the scarp is younger than the early Weichselian but suggest that parts of the scarp existed beneath the late Weichselian ice sheet.","PeriodicalId":55094,"journal":{"name":"Gff","volume":"140 1","pages":"318 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/11035897.2018.1492963","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42142014","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}
GffPub Date : 2018-06-27DOI: 10.1080/11035897.2018.1483966
H. Mutvei
{"title":"Cameral deposits in Paleozoic cephalopods","authors":"H. Mutvei","doi":"10.1080/11035897.2018.1483966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2018.1483966","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Calcareous cameral deposits have been described in several orthocerid and actinocerid nautiloids. According to the prevailing hypothesis, they were secreted during the lifetime of the animal, either by living tissues in the shell chambers, or by precipitation from the cameral liquid. In the present paper, cameral deposits are described in three species of Carboniferous orthocerid-like coleoid (Order Colorthocerida) from USA. The shell walls and septa in these coleoids are very thin and poorly calcified. In one half of the population of the three species, the septa are completely fragmented and there are no cameral deposits. In the other half of the population, the septa are partially fractioned and their surfaces are covered by well-developed cameral deposits. In contrast to the septa, the cameral deposits do not show any fractioning. To explain the origin of the cameral deposits, the following hypothetical scenario is the most realistic. After the death of the animals, the shells were accumulated on the sea floor and in one half of the population the septa became fully fractioned by the hydrostatic pressure. In shells of another half of the population, the septa were only partially fractioned. The calcifying bacteria entered the chambers of the dead shells through the porous connecting rings and gave rise to the cameral deposits.","PeriodicalId":55094,"journal":{"name":"Gff","volume":"140 1","pages":"254 - 263"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/11035897.2018.1483966","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42866584","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}
GffPub Date : 2018-06-27DOI: 10.1080/11035897.2018.1482564
J. S. Peel
{"title":"A new look at Pleurotomaria perlata Hall, 1852 (Gastropoda) from the Silurian of Laurentia","authors":"J. S. Peel","doi":"10.1080/11035897.2018.1482564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2018.1482564","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract New material from Genoa, Ohio, USA, of the distinctive but poorly known Silurian gastropod Pleurotomaria perlata Hall, 1852, originally described from the Guelph Formation of Ontario, Canada, demonstrates that it is not a pleurotomariinid vetigastropod. It is a species of Isfarispira Gubanov, Peel & Pianovskaya, 1995, first described from the Silurian of Kyrgyzstan, central Asia, and now recognised from Laurentia. Isfarispira belongs within a pycnomphaline–omphalotrochid group of euomphaloidean gastropods but this group is too poorly understood to allow firm placement at this time.","PeriodicalId":55094,"journal":{"name":"Gff","volume":"140 1","pages":"249 - 253"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/11035897.2018.1482564","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45136383","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}
GffPub Date : 2018-06-11DOI: 10.1080/11035897.2018.1474381
C. Burrow, A. Ivanov, V. Ershova
{"title":"Acanthodians from the Silurian–Devonian boundary beds of Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russia","authors":"C. Burrow, A. Ivanov, V. Ershova","doi":"10.1080/11035897.2018.1474381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2018.1474381","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract An acanthodian assemblage is reported for the first time from the Silurian–Devonian boundary beds of Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russia. The acanthodian scales and rare other vertebrate microremains were in a sample collected from the Reliktovoe Formation of the western coast of Inostantzev Bay, North Island. The assemblage includes Gomphonchus mediocostatus, Gomphonchoporus hoppei taxa previously described from the Pridoli – Lochkovian of Laurussia, and Taimyrolepis composita occurred in the Lochkovian of Siberia. Gomphonchus mediocostatus and Gomphonchoporus hoppei are widely distributed in the Baltica palaeogeographic province, and Taimyrolepis is known from the Siberia province, indicating connection between those provinces.","PeriodicalId":55094,"journal":{"name":"Gff","volume":"140 1","pages":"241 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/11035897.2018.1474381","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47057474","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}