Efecto ambiental de variaciones climáticas astronómicas en depósitos hemipelágicos del Eoceno inferior (Sopelana, Bizkaia)
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Las sucesiones eocenas expuestas en Sopelana (Bizkaia) están caracterizadas
por la alternancia de calizas y margas hemipelágicas que se
organizan en trece grupos, cada uno con cinco pares caliza-marga. Esta
organización sugiere que la formación de los pares estuvo controlada por
ciclos astronómicos de precesión (20 ka) y la de los grupos por ciclos de
excentricidad (100 ka). Se ha estudiado el contenido en carbonato y los isótopos
estables de carbono y oxígeno de los pares del duodécimo grupo, a
fin de descifrar los cambios ambientales en medios marinos profundos provocados
por los ciclos de precesión y excentricidad y determinar las
diferentes configuraciones orbitales que condujeron a la formación de cada
capa.
The Eocene successions exposed in Sopelana (Biscay) are characterized by the alternation of hemipelagic limestones and marls organized in thirteen distinctive bundles, each of which contains five limestone-marl couplets. Such an arrangement suggests that the formation of the couplets was driven by astronomical precession cycles (20 ky each) and that of the bundles by eccentricity cycles (100 ky). The couplets within the twelfth bundle were analysed for their carbonate content and their oxygen and carbon stable isotopes, with the aim of deciphering accurately the deep-sea environmental changes caused by the precession and eccentricity cycles and the varying orbital configurations that led to the formation of each bed
The Eocene successions exposed in Sopelana (Biscay) are characterized by the alternation of hemipelagic limestones and marls organized in thirteen distinctive bundles, each of which contains five limestone-marl couplets. Such an arrangement suggests that the formation of the couplets was driven by astronomical precession cycles (20 ky each) and that of the bundles by eccentricity cycles (100 ky). The couplets within the twelfth bundle were analysed for their carbonate content and their oxygen and carbon stable isotopes, with the aim of deciphering accurately the deep-sea environmental changes caused by the precession and eccentricity cycles and the varying orbital configurations that led to the formation of each bed







