. Chemostratigraphy and geochemistry of Pliensbachian carbonate successions from northern Spain

IMMERSTEIN, T; MEHUS, T; ZIMMERMANN, U; BERTOLINO, S.R.; MADLAND, M.V; TAIT, J.

Stavanger

Congreso; Vinterkonferansen 2011; 2011

The Jurassic basin in western and Northern Europe was a large intracratonic sea characterised by several palaeohighs predating the opening of the Atlantic ocean. In coastal environments of the Lower Jurassic, like the modern norhtern coast of Spain, sediments record sea-level changes on cm-scale We studied a Lower Jurassic succession to the east of Gijón at the locality Playa de Vega where the Rodiles Formation is exposed. The quality of the exposures together with the abundant fossils facilitates a sequence stratigraphic approach towards the understanding of the successions. This, combined with chemostratigraphic data and biostratigraphy enables to correlate exposures along the Asturian coastline.