Université de Fribourg

Third-order depositional sequences reflecting Milankovitch cyclicity

Strasser, André ; Hillgärtner, Heiko ; Hug, Wolfgang ; Pittet, Bernard

In: Terra Nova, 2000, vol. 12(6), p. 303

The origin of third-order depositional sequences remains debatable, and in many cases it is not clear whether they were controlled by tectonic activity and/or by eustatic sea-level changes. In Oxfordian and Berriasian-Valanginian carbonate-dominated sections of Switzerland, France, Germany and Spain, high-resolution sequence-stratigraphic and cyclostratigraphic analyses show that the sedimentary...