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GY 112: Earth History
Lecture 24: Paleozoic 1: Laurentia
Instructor: Dr. Douglas W. Haywick
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA
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Last Time (before the exam)
The Cambrian Explosion
A) Why a Cambrian “explosion” B) Introducing our ancestors (recap…. kind of)
(web notes 23)
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The Cambrian Explosion
Not so much an explosion… …more of a shift… to hard body parts
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/
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The Cambrian Explosion
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The Cambrian Explosion
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/
What we know about the early development of all of the current phyla is limited to sites where we have lots of beasties preserved
Burgess Shale Fauna
Chengjiang Fauna
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http://home.earthlink.net/~airdpacoima/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/burgess__s.jpg
The Burgess Shale
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Today’s Agenda
The Paleozoic of North America
1) Laurentian passive continental margin sedimentation 2) Central North America
The next few lectures includes several detailed diagrams that may require a bit more discussion than usual. If you don’t understand a diagram, ASK QUESTIONS!
(web notes 24)
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
In the early Paleozoic (Cambrian to Middle Ordovician) North America was pretty isolated.
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
In the early Paleozoic (Cambrian to Middle Ordovician) North America was pretty isolated. •Convergent boundary well to the north.
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
In the early Paleozoic (Cambrian to Middle Ordovician) North America was pretty isolated. •Convergent boundary well to the north.
•Divergent plate boundary well to the south
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
Consider:
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
Consider: 1) passive continental margin
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
Consider: 1) passive continental margin 2) shallow marine water (shelf)
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
Consider: 1) passive continental margin 2) shallow marine water (shelf) 3) tropical climate
Equator:
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
Consider: 1) passive continental margin 2) shallow marine water (shelf) 3) tropical climate All the way from Labrador to Alabama
Equator:
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
Consider: 1) passive continental margin 2) shallow marine water (shelf) 3) tropical climate All the way from Labrador to Alabama 1+2+3= Fossil. Limestone, oolite, quartz arenite etc.
Equator:
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
Passive continental margins are sites where thick sequences of coastal and shallow marine sedimentary rocks are deposited
http://www.scgltd.com/scgbahamascourse.html
Bahamas oolite shoals
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
Passive continental margins are sites where thick sequences of coastal and shallow marine sedimentary rocks are deposited And these rocks were deposited all the way from Labrador to Alabama Cahaba River near Montevallo, AL
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
Passive continental margins are sites where thick sequences of coastal and shallow marine sedimentary rocks are deposited And these rocks were deposited all the way from Labrador to Alabama We could choose any site between them to discuss….
Cahaba River near Montevallo, AL
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
Passive continental margins are sites where thick sequences of coastal and shallow marine sedimentary rocks are deposited And these rocks were deposited all the way from Labrador to Alabama We could choose any site between them to discuss…. … I choose Newfoundland
Northwestern Newfoundland
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
Newfoundland is at the northern end of the Appalachian Mountains and is an important geological location
http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/crayfish/country_pages/newfoundland.htm
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
The island is divisible into several geological zones
http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/crayfish/country_pages/newfoundland.htm
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
The Humber zone is a region of undeformed, passive continental margin rocks
http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/crayfish/country_pages/newfoundland.htm
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
This is a section of the Paleozoic stratigraphy of the Humber Zone in Newfoundland
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
Cambrian rocks contain shallow marine limestones, dolostones and quartz arenite sandstones
Dolostone
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
Early Ordovician rocks contain dolostones and limestones, some with good reefs (stromatolites, rugose and tabulate corals).
Stromatolite reef
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
All are mostly flat lying (non- deformed); they escaped the Paleozoic orogenies
Stromatolite reef
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
But something happens as you go up sequence. Shallow marine rocks are overlain by deep marine shale
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
A sudden (localized) deepening occurred (transgression) and above that….
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
Thrust faulting…
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
Even though this coastline of Laurentia was a passive continental margin, a plate tectonic boundary was rapidly approaching…
A
B
A
B
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Laurentia (Paleozoic North America)
Middle Ordovician
Laurentia
Baltica
Island arc A
B
A
B
The resulting Taconic Orogeny first depressed the seafloor (localized transgression) and then pushed previously deposited passive continental margin sediments up into thrust fault mountains. More on the Appalachians next
time
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Cratonic Sequences
Middle Ordovician Early Devonian
Ignoring tectonics for a moment and you’ll see that sea water covers much of the craton in these 2 paleogeographic images, but not always to the same extent…
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Cratonic Sequences
Middle Ordovician Early Devonian
Ignoring tectonics for a moment and you’ll see that sea water covers much of the craton in these 2 paleogeographic images, but not always to the same extent…
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Cratonic Sequences
When continents flood during transgressions, sediment is deposited. When regressions occur, erosion takes place producing unconformities (disconformities)
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Cratonic Sequences
When continents flood during transgressions, sediment is deposited. When regressions occur, erosion takes place producing unconformities (disconformities) Thick sedimentary packages between disconformities are called cratonic (depositional) sequences.
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Cratonic Sequences
When continents flood during transgressions, sediment is deposited. When regressions occur, erosion takes place producing unconformities (disconformities) Thick sedimentary packages between disconformities are called cratonic (depositional sequences). •Basins have thick sequences (shorter disconformities)
•Arches/domes have thin sequences (longer disconformities)
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Cratonic Sequences
And every depositional sequence is named (e.g., Sauk, Tippecanoe, Kaskaskia etc.)
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Cratonic Sequences
And every depositional sequence is named (e.g., Sauk, Tippecanoe, Kaskaskia etc.) Why the variation in thickness from the center of the craton to the edge?
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Cratonic Sequences
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Today’s Homework 1. Time Chart 2 Now due Thursday April 6th
Next Time 1. Special Lecture: Diane Palmore
2. Quiz 9 postponed until Tuesday April 4th
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GY 112: Earth History
Lecture 24: Laurentia
Instructor: Dr. Doug Haywick [email protected]
This is a free open access lecture, but not for commercial purposes. For personal use only.