Sequence stratigraphical study of the Tournaisian strata in Belgium and Southern China
An SMEESTERS,
Fysico-Chemische geologie, K.U.Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200C, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium.
Philippe MUCHEZ,
Fysico-Chemische geologie, K.U.Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200C, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium.
Luc HANCE,
Carmeuse Coordination Center, Bd. de Lauzelle 65, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (formerly Geological Survey of Belgium).
Abstract
Strata of late Devonian and Tournaisian age in Belgium and Southern China were studied sedimentologically. This detailed study integrated into a biostratigraphical framework, based on foraminiferal zonation, allowed the construction of a sequence stratigraphical model for both areas. Based on these models a correlation on the scale of third order sequences between these two widely separated depositional environments can be made. This indicates the eustatic nature of the sea-level changes that caused the sedimentological changes during the Tournaisian.
Keywords : sequence stratigraphy, carbonates, Tournaisian, Late Devonian, Belgium, Southern China
To cite this article
An SMEESTERS, Philippe MUCHEZ & Luc HANCE, «Sequence stratigraphical study of the Tournaisian strata in Belgium and Southern China», Geologica Belgica [En ligne], volume 3 (2000), number 3-4 - Volume dédié à Jos BOUCKAERT Herdenkingsnummer, 285-307 URL : http://popups.ulg.be/1374-8505/index.php?id=2221.
