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Geochemical Study of the Jigunsan Shale: A Sequence Stratigraphic Application to Defining a Middle Ordovician Condensed Section, Taebacksan (Taebaeksan) Basin  

Ryu, In-Chang (Department of Geology, Kyungpook National University)
Ryu, Sun-Young (Department of Geology, Kyungpook National University)
Son, Byeong-Kook (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.42, no.1, 2009 , pp. 27-53 More about this Journal
Abstract
A 30-m-thick Middle Ordovician Jigunsan Shale exposed along the southern limb of the Backunsan (Baekunsan) Syncline, Taebacksan (Taebaeksan) basin, has been simply considered as a transgressive shale sequence onlapped the underlying Maggol platform carbonates. Results of this study, however, suggest that majority of the Jigunsan Shale be interpreted as a regressive shale sequence downlapped onto a thin (ca. 240 cm) marine stratigraphic unit consisting of organic-rich (>3 wt.% of TOC) black shales in the lower Jigunsan Shale, which was accumulated at the time of maximum regional transgression. Detailed stratigraphic analysis in conjunction with XRD, XRF, and ICP-MS as well as Rock-Eval pyrolysis allows the thin marine stratigraphic unit in the Jigunsan Shale to define a condensed section that was deposited in a distinctive euxinic zone formed due to expansion of pycnocline during the early highstand phase. As well, a number of stratigraphic horizons of distinctive character that may have sequence stratigraphic or environmental significance, such as transgressive surface, maximum flooding surface, maximum sediment starvation surface, and downlap surface, are identified in the lower Jigunsan Shale. In the future, these stratigraphic horizons will provide very useful information to make a coherent regional stratigraphic correlation of the Middle Ordovician strata and to develop a comprehensive understanding on stratigraphic response to tectonic evolution as well as basin history of the Taebacksan Basin.
Keywords
Jigunsan shale; sequence stratigraphy; condensed section; paleoredox; pycnocline;
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