Magnetic susceptibility dataset from the Danian Contessa Highway section, Gubbio, Italy

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Autori principali: Sinnesael, Matthias, De Vleeschouwer, David, Coccioni, Rodolfo, Claeys, Philippe, Frontalini, Fabrizio, Jovane, Luigi, Savian, Jairo Francisco, Montanari, Alessandro
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author Sinnesael, Matthias
De Vleeschouwer, David
Coccioni, Rodolfo
Claeys, Philippe
Frontalini, Fabrizio
Jovane, Luigi
Savian, Jairo Francisco
Montanari, Alessandro
author_facet Sinnesael, Matthias
De Vleeschouwer, David
Coccioni, Rodolfo
Claeys, Philippe
Frontalini, Fabrizio
Jovane, Luigi
Savian, Jairo Francisco
Montanari, Alessandro
collection Datos científicos de ciencias marinas y ambientales
contents We studied a high-resolution multiproxy data set, including magnetic susceptibility (MS), CaCO3 content, and stable isotopes (d18O and d13C), from the stratigraphic interval covering the uppermost Maastrichtian and the lower Danian, represented by the pelagic limestones of the Scaglia Rossa Formation continuously exposed in the classic sections of the Bottaccione Gorge and the Contessa Highway near Gubbio, Italy. Variations in all the proxy series are periodic and reflect astronomically forced climate changes (i.e., Milankovitch cycles). In particular, the MS proxy reflects variations in the terrigenous dust input in this pelagic, deep-marine environment. We speculate that the dust is mainly eolian in origin and that the availability and transport of dust are influenced by variations in the vegetation cover on the Maastrichtian-Paleocene African or Asian zone, which were respectively located at tropical to subtropical latitudes to the south or far to the east of the western Tethyan Umbria-Marche Basin, and were characterized by monsoonal circulation. The dynamics of monsoonal circulation are known to be strongly dependent on precession-driven and obliquity-driven changes in insolation. We propose that a threshold mechanism in the vegetation coverage may explain eccentricity-related periodicities in the terrigenous eolian dust input. Other mechanisms, both oceanic and terrestrial, that depend on the precession amplitude modulated by eccentricity, can be evoked together with the variation of dust influx in the western Tethys to explain the detected eccentricity periodicity in the d13C record. Our interpretations of the d18O and MS records suggest a warming event ~400 k.y. prior to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary, and a period of climatic and environmental instability in the earliest Danian. Based on these multiproxy phase relationships, we propose an astronomical tuning for these sections; this leads us to an estimate of the timing and duration of several late Maastrichtian and Danian biostratigraphic and magnetostratigraphic events.
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spellingShingle Magnetic susceptibility dataset from the Danian Contessa Highway section, Gubbio, Italy
Sinnesael, Matthias
De Vleeschouwer, David
Coccioni, Rodolfo
Claeys, Philippe
Frontalini, Fabrizio
Jovane, Luigi
Savian, Jairo Francisco
Montanari, Alessandro
Contessa; Geological sample; GEOS; Italy; Kappabridge KLY-2 MS; SECTION, height; Susceptibility, specific
We studied a high-resolution multiproxy data set, including magnetic susceptibility (MS), CaCO3 content, and stable isotopes (d18O and d13C), from the stratigraphic interval covering the uppermost Maastrichtian and the lower Danian, represented by the pelagic limestones of the Scaglia Rossa Formation continuously exposed in the classic sections of the Bottaccione Gorge and the Contessa Highway near Gubbio, Italy. Variations in all the proxy series are periodic and reflect astronomically forced climate changes (i.e., Milankovitch cycles). In particular, the MS proxy reflects variations in the terrigenous dust input in this pelagic, deep-marine environment. We speculate that the dust is mainly eolian in origin and that the availability and transport of dust are influenced by variations in the vegetation cover on the Maastrichtian-Paleocene African or Asian zone, which were respectively located at tropical to subtropical latitudes to the south or far to the east of the western Tethyan Umbria-Marche Basin, and were characterized by monsoonal circulation. The dynamics of monsoonal circulation are known to be strongly dependent on precession-driven and obliquity-driven changes in insolation. We propose that a threshold mechanism in the vegetation coverage may explain eccentricity-related periodicities in the terrigenous eolian dust input. Other mechanisms, both oceanic and terrestrial, that depend on the precession amplitude modulated by eccentricity, can be evoked together with the variation of dust influx in the western Tethys to explain the detected eccentricity periodicity in the d13C record. Our interpretations of the d18O and MS records suggest a warming event ~400 k.y. prior to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary, and a period of climatic and environmental instability in the earliest Danian. Based on these multiproxy phase relationships, we propose an astronomical tuning for these sections; this leads us to an estimate of the timing and duration of several late Maastrichtian and Danian biostratigraphic and magnetostratigraphic events.
title Magnetic susceptibility dataset from the Danian Contessa Highway section, Gubbio, Italy
topic Contessa; Geological sample; GEOS; Italy; Kappabridge KLY-2 MS; SECTION, height; Susceptibility, specific
url https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.864450