Université de Fribourg

Turonian radiolarians from Karnezeika, Argolis peninsula, Peloponnesus (Greece)

Bandini, Alexandre N. ; Baumgartner, Peter O. ; Caron, Michèle

In: Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 2006, vol. 99, no. Supplement 1, p. S1-S20

Near Karnezeika a roughly 140 m thick Upper Cretaceous section consists of interbedded pelagic limestones, cherts and coarse polymict breccias including ophiolites and shallow water limestones. At the base, pink pelagic limestones rest on deeply altered and fractured Lower Jurassic Pantokrator Limestone. This first pelagic facies is dated as middle Turonian, based on planktonic Foraminifera. Over...