Scotchman, JI; Bown, P; Pickering, KT; BouDagher-Fadel, M; Bayliss, NJ; Robinson, SA; (2015) A new age model for the middle Eocene deep-marine Ainsa Basin, Spanish Pyrenees. Earth-Science Reviews , 144 pp. 10-22. 10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.11.006.

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Abstract

The middle Eocene Ainsa Basin, Spanish Pyrenees, comprises ~. 4. km of deep-marine sedimentary rocks belonging to the Hecho Group. Despite extensive study of these exemplary deep-marine clastic successions, there has been no comprehensive chronostratigraphic framework that provides primary ages for the submarine fan and related deposits. Here, we present a new composite basin stratigraphy based upon biostratigraphic analyses of the Upper Hecho Group submarine-fan and interfan deposits. Calcareous nannofossil data suggest that deposition of the Gerbe through to Guaso systems occurred during biozones NP14-16 (42.6 and 48.9. Ma based on our age model). Additional biostratigraphic ages from the Lower Hecho Group suggest that the entire Hecho Group no older than biozone NP13 (~. 51. Ma). The improved chronostratigraphic control enables correlations between submarine canyons and submarine-fans of the Ainsa and Jaca basins to be assessed. Our new age model provides a means of comparison of stratigraphic events with regional sections allowing a better understanding of the lateral and temporal evolution of these depositional systems from source-to-sink.

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