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A geologist riddle #7
An "impossible" outcrop - the rocks where already recognized in 1867, but only a discovery in 1970 revealed an incredible environmental change - what is the significance of this site?
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Is that the Gubbio layer in Italy? (What I learned to call the K/T boundary, now K/P or something) It doesn't quite look right...
ReplyDeleteI'd have to guess K/T boundary, but wouldn't venture where. Looks a lot like rocks on the Colorado Plateau, in general.
ReplyDeleteIt´s in Italy, and even it is a chronostratigraphic boundary, but much later than C/P - I added a photo with an important detail and would say that there is a connection to modern Death Valley...
ReplyDeleteThe important detail seems to be something like evaporite, isn't it ?
ReplyDeleteSo maybe the "incredible environmental change" discovered in 1970 (with Leg 13 of the DSDP)is the Messinian salinity crisis, at the end of Miocene.
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The environemntal change is the complete evaporation of the Mediterranean Sea due to the closure of the strait of Gibraltar. How you rock guys figured out it was a few million yerars ago is beyond me.
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