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Cretaceous ammonites from Fuerteventura, Canary Islands

Authors :
Renz, Otto
Bernoulli, Daniel
Hottinger, Lukas
Source :
Geological Magazine; November 1992, Vol. 129 Issue: 6 p763-769, 7p
Publication Year :
1992

Abstract

AbstractMesozoic deep-water sediments occurring on the island of Fuerteventura were deposited near the continent?ocean boundary adjacent to the African margin. During Tertiary times, they were uplifted and intruded by ultramafic, mafic and alkaline plutons and dykes and are now exposed as part of the ?Basal Complex? of the island. These sediments reflect more or less continuous hemipelagic and turbiditic deposition during most of Jurassic and Cretaceous times. Two ammonites, described in this paper, document a Valanginian to Hauterivian age for part of the Lower Cretaceous siliciclastic turbidites, and a latest Albian to early Cenomanian age for part of the Upper Cretaceous hemipelagic limestones.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00167568 and 14695081
Volume :
129
Issue :
6
Database :
Supplemental Index
Journal :
Geological Magazine
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
ejs40514200
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756800008487