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Thrust sheets at Point Hibbs, Tasmania: Palaeontology, sedimentology and structure

 

作者: StephenP. Carey,   RonaldF. Berry,  

 

期刊: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences  (Taylor Available online 1988)
卷期: Volume 35, issue 2  

页码: 169-180

 

ISSN:0812-0099

 

年代: 1988

 

DOI:10.1080/14400958808527938

 

出版商: Taylor & Francis Group

 

关键词: conodonts;Lower Devonian;Ordovician;limestone;thrusting;Tasmania

 

数据来源: Taylor

 

摘要:

The sequence formerly mapped as Spero Bay Group (Lower Devonian) and containing the palaeontologically significant Point Hibbs Formation includes Lower Devonian, Ordovician and possibly Cambrian rocks. The Point Hibbs Formation (Lower Devonian) is redefined to include interbedded fossiliferous lime packstone and fossiliferous claystone, characterized by large coral heads. Gordon Group limestone contains a conodont and brachiopod fauna indicating a late Middle Ordovician age and includes fenestral-peloidal and oncolitic lithologies typical of the Gordon Group elsewhere in Tasmania. Strata of different ages are juxtaposed along east-dipping thrust planes. Differences in conodont colour alteration indices suggest a minimum relative vertical displacement of 2 km between the Point Hibbs Formation and the Gordon Group. High-level thrusting and westward transport direction may have been a general feature of Middle-Late Devonian deformation in western Tasmania.

 

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