NEW DATA ON THE CONDITIONS OF SEDIMENTATION OF UPPER JURASSIC CARBONATE COMPLEX IN THE TERRITORY OF PREDOBROGEAN FOREDEEP

Authors

  • N. Zhabina National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 55-b Oles Honchar Str., Kyiv, 01022, Ukraine
  • O. Anikeyeva Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv 90 Vasylkivska Str., Kyiv, 03022 Ukraine
  • O. Samarska Lviv Branch of Ukrainian State Research Institute Lviv, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2713.71.02

Keywords:

Upper Jurassic, microfacies, foraminifers, tintinnids, Predobrogean foredeep

Abstract

The results of complex micropaleontological and microfacial studying of Upper Jurassic sediments of Predobrogean regions of Ukraine are produced. According to nowadays stratigraphy scheme, in the Predobrogean foredeep the Upper Jurassic is represented by carbonate complex in which there are reefogenic facies of Middle Oxfordian–Lower Kimmeridgian, and terrigenous lagoonal-continental formations of Upper Kimmeridgian–Tithonian. The investigations allowed to reveal planktonic microfauna – tintinnids in the Oxfordian and Tithonian, to make characteristic of microfacial composition of the rocks. The result are the determinztion of presence of pelagic possibly fore-reef sediments of the Upper Tithonian and back-reef formations of Kimmeridgian, Tithonian and Tithonian–Berriassian. This gave the base for the new interpretation of age, facies and conditions of forming Upper Jurassic sediments of the Predobrogean foredeep. The following facies were determined in the Upper Jurassic complex: fore-reef, reef and back-reef in the Oxfordian, back-reef and lagoonal in the Kimmeridgian, fore-reef, back-reef and lagoonal in the Tithonian. Analysis of the vertical sequences in the sections studied allowed to clear the conditions of forming the Upper Jurassic sediments of Predobrogean foredeep and their alternations in time because of transgressive-regressive processes. In Oxfordian the sediments were formed on the rather shallow shelf: in the south – a deeper-water pelagic, in the northeast – shallow-water back-reef, and reef zone as arc stretched from northwest to southeast. Long regressive background caused the vertical zonation of the Oxfordian reefs in the region. Pelagic sediments of Oxfordian were overlapped by shallow-water formations and evaporitic lagoon began forming on the most territory. As a result of global transgression in Tithonian the sea spreaded in the south and center of the foredeep. The lagoon continued to exist on the raised periphery of the basin. Upper Jurassic carbonate complex was considerably eroded afterwards and was partly overlapped by nappe structures. This completed reefogenic complex which is absent here. 

References

Boychuk G.V., Burova M.I., Dulub V.G., Leshukh R.J., Polukhtovich B.M. et al. (1991). On the Upper Jurassic deposits of the Danubian part of Predobrogea Deep. Geology and geochemistry of fuels, 77, 1-11. [in Russian].

Gazizova S.A. (2009). By comparative analysis of deflections framing the East European platform. Pre-Dobrogea Foredeep. Institute of Geology, Ufa Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences. Geological collection, 8, 88-93. [in Russian].

Zhabina N.M. (2004). Foraminiferas and tintinnids as the indicators of sedimentary conditions of Upper Jurassic deposits in Ukrainian Precarpathians. Geology and geochemistry of fuels, 3, 91-102. [in Ukrainian].

Kruhlov S. (1999). Formational-geodynamic correlation of the Jurassic and the Upper Cretaceous within the South-Western framing of the Eurasian lithospheric plate. Geodynamics, 1(2), 70-82. [in Russian].

Leshukh R.J., Permyakov V.V., Polukhtovich B.M. (1999). Jurassic deposits of the South of Ukraine. Lviv: Eurosvit, 336. [in Ukrainian].

Melnychenko T.A., Shafranska N.V. (2010). Tectionics and structural plan of the Dobrogea foredeep. Geology and mineral resourses of the World Ocean, 3, 76-84. [in Ukrainian].

Polukhtovich B.M., Samarska E.V. Samarsky A.D. (1985). The features of construction of Upper Jurassic reefs in South of Ukraine. Geology of reefs and their oil and gas potential: Abstracts of Vsesoyuzny meeting, Karshi, UzbekSSR, 16–18 April 1985. (pp. 134-136). [in Russian].

Polukhtovich B.M., Samarsky A.D., Khnykin V.I. (1984). Upper Jurassic reef constructions in Southwest of USSR. Geology of Soviet Carpathians: Reports of Soviet geologists in XII Congress CBGA. (pp. 156163). Kyiv: Nauk. dumka. [in Russian].

Romanov L.F. (1976). Mesozoic mottled rocks of Dniester-Prut interfluve territory. Kishinev: Shtiyntsa. [in Russian].

Romanov L.F. (2012). Problems of oil and gas potential of territory between the rivers Dniester and Prut. Geoecological and biological problems of the Northern Black Sea coast: Proceedings of the IV International scientific and practical conference. (pp. 251-254). Tiraspol. [in Russian].

Slusar B.S. (1971). Jurassic deposits of Northern Black Sea Coast. Kishinev: Shtiyntsa. [in Russian]. 12. Slusar B.S. (1984). The structures of horizontal compression in the Northern Predobrogea. Geotectonics, 4, 90-105. [in Russian].

Gozhyk P.F. (Ed.). (2014). Stratigraphy of Upper Proterozoic and Phanerozoic of Ukraine: in 2 volumes. (Vol. 1. Stratigraphy of Upper Proterozoic, Paleozoic and Mesozoic of Ukraine). K.: Logos. [in Ukrainian].

Wilson, J.L. (1975). Carbonate facies in geologic history. Berlin (Springer). [in Russian].

Anikeyeva O., Zhabina N. (2014). Ukrainian part of the Upper Jurassic reef belt of Europe and correlation with adjacent regions. Buletini i Shkencave Gjeologjike – Special Issue. Proceedings of XX CBGA Congress, Tirana, Albania, 24–26 Sept., 2014, 1, 191-194.

Flügel E. (2010). Microfacies of Carbonate Rocks. Analysis, Interpretation and Application. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 984 p.

Leifelder R. R. (2001). Jurassic Reef Ecosystems. In: Stanley, G D.,Jr. (ed.) The History and Sedimentology of Ancient Reef Systems. (pp. 251–309). Kluwer Academic/Plenum publishers, New York.

Leinfelder R.R., Schmid D.U., Nose M., Werner W. (2002). Jurassic reef patterns – the expression of a changing globe. In Phanerozoic Reef Patterns. SEPM Special Publication, 72, 465-520.

Nagy I. (1988). The Micritinas. A hypothetical rock-forming microfossil group in the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous formations of the Mecsek and Villany Belt. Magyar Allami Foldtani Intezet evi jelentese, 2, 87-113.

Published

2025-01-16

How to Cite

Zhabina, N., Anikeyeva, O., & Samarska, O. (2025). NEW DATA ON THE CONDITIONS OF SEDIMENTATION OF UPPER JURASSIC CARBONATE COMPLEX IN THE TERRITORY OF PREDOBROGEAN FOREDEEP. Visnyk of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Geology, 4(71), 11-17. https://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2713.71.02