The palaeogeographical background of Late Devonian storm events in the western part of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland)
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Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe
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Late Devonian coarse-grained carbonate deposits in the Holy Cross Mountains were studied for possible storm depositional
systems and catastrophic tsunami events, as it must be assumed that the investigated area was strongly affected
by tropical hurricanes generated in the open ocean North of Gondwana. This assumption appears consistent with diagnostic
features of carbonate tempestites at several places in the Holy Cross Mountains. Sedimentary structures and
textures that indicate so are, among other evidence, erosional bases with sole marks, graded units, intra- and bioclasts,
different laminations and burrowing at the tops of tempestite layers.
It has been suggested before that a tsunami occurred during the Late Devonian, but the Laurussian shelf had an extensional
regime at the time, which excludes intensive seismic activity. The shelf environment also excluded the generation
of tsunami waves because the depth was too shallow. Additionally, the Holy Cross Mountains region was surrounded
in the Devonian by shallow-marine and stable elevated areas: the Nida Platform, the Opatkowice Platform and the
Cracow Platform to the South, and the elevated Lublin-Lviv area to the NE. Thus, tsunami energy should have been
absorbed by these regions if tsunamites would have occurred.
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carbonate tempestites, tropical hurricanes, tsunami, palaeogeography, Late Devonian, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland
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Geologos, 2013, vol. 19, 4, pp. 257-272
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978-83-232187-4-6
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1426-8981