The radiolarian age and petrographic composition of a block of the Lower Jurassic volcaniclastic breccia and chert of the Mamonia Complex, SW Cyprus
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An exceptional exposure of volcaniclastic breccia intercalated with radiolarian cherts and limestones was studied which constitutes a unique block within the Upper Cretaceous Mamonia Mélange in the Akamas Peninsula of southwestern Cyprus. This breccia, represents the lower part of the sedimentary cover of the Upper Triassic Phasoula Formation volcanics. The breccia mainly consists of clasts of metabasalts, diabases, metagabbros, hyaloclastites and quartz-albite-chlorite-epidote aggregates, which have been metamorphosed at greenschist facies, and subordinate siltstones. The thin-bedded cherts intercalated between breccia levels, yielded radiolarian assemblages, which indicate an Early Jurassic age (Sinemurian to Pliensbachian) for the sequence.
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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF CYPRUS (2015): Geological map of the Pegeia–Steni area. Nicosia, sheet 16 I–II. Scale 1:25000.
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HORI, R. (1990): Lower Jurassic radiolarian zones of SW Japan.– Trans. Proc. Palaeont. Soc. Japan, N. S., 159, 562–586.
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KNIPPER, A.L. (1978): Ophicalcites and some other types of breccia accompanying pre-orogenic formation of ophiolite assemblage. – Geotectonics, 2, 50-66 (in Russian).
KNIPPER, A.L., SATIAN, M.A. & BRAGIN, N.Y. (1997): Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic volcanogenic and sedimentary deposits of the Old Zod Pass (Transcaucasia). – Stratigraphy, Geological Correlation, 3, 58–65. (in Russian).
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LONGRIDGE, L.M., CARTER, E.S., SMITH, P.L., & TIPPER, H.W. (2007): Early Hettangian ammonites and radiolarians from the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia and their bearing on the definition of the Triassic–Jurassic boundary.– Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 244, 142–169. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.06.027
MALPAS, J., XENOPHONTHOS, C. & WILLIAMS, D. (1992): The Ayia Varvara Formation of SW Cyprus: a product of complex collisional tectonics. – Tectonophysics, 212, 193–211. doi: 10.1016/0040-1951(92)90291-D
MARTINI, R., PEYBERNÉS, B. & MOIX, P. (2009): Late Triassic foraminifera in reefal limestones of SW Cyprus. – Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 39/3, 218–230. doi: 10.2113/gsjfr.39.3.218
PESSAGNO JR., E.A. & WHALEN, P.A. (1982): Lower and Middle Jurassic Radiolaria (multicyrtid Nassellariina) from California, east-central Oregon and the Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C.– Micropaleontology, 28, 111–169. doi: 10.2307/1485228
ROBERTSON, A.H.F. (1977): The Kannaviou Formation, Cyprus: volcaniclastic sedimentation of a probable Late Cretaceous volcanic arc.– Journal of the Geological Society London, 134/3, 269–292. doi: 10.1144/gsjgs.134.3.0269
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ROBERTSON, A.H.F. & WOODCOCK, N.H. (1979): Mamonia Complex, Southwest Cyprus: Evolution and Emplacement of a Mesozoic Continental Margin.– Bull. Geol. Soc. of America, 1/9, 651–665. doi: 10.1130/0016-7606(1979)90%3C651:MCSCEA%3E2.0.CO;2
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