Radiolarian and Planktic Foraminifera Biostratigraphy of the Early Albian Organic Rich Beds of Fahdene Formation, Northern Tunisia

M Ben Fadhel; T Zouaghi; A Amri; M Ben Youssef

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M Ben Fadhel, T Zouaghi, A Amri, M Ben Youssef. Radiolarian and Planktic Foraminifera Biostratigraphy of the Early Albian Organic Rich Beds of Fahdene Formation, Northern Tunisia. Journal of Earth Science, 2014, 25(1): 45-63. doi: 10.1007/s12583-014-0399-5

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M Ben Fadhel, T Zouaghi, A Amri, M Ben Youssef. Radiolarian and Planktic Foraminifera Biostratigraphy of the Early Albian Organic Rich Beds of Fahdene Formation, Northern Tunisia. Journal of Earth Science, 2014, 25(1): 45-63. doi: 10.1007/s12583-014-0399-5

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M Ben Fadhel, T Zouaghi, A Amri, M Ben Youssef. Radiolarian and Planktic Foraminifera Biostratigraphy of the Early Albian Organic Rich Beds of Fahdene Formation, Northern Tunisia. Journal of Earth Science, 2014, 25(1): 45-63. doi: 10.1007/s12583-014-0399-5

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Radiolarian and Planktic Foraminifera Biostratigraphy of the Early Albian Organic Rich Beds of Fahdene Formation, Northern Tunisia

doi: 10.1007/s12583-014-0399-5

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Département de Géologie, Faculté des Sciences de Gafsa-Campus Universitaire Sidi Ahmed Zarrouk, 2112, Université de Gafsa, Tunisia
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Département des Géoressources, CERTE-Technopole de Borj Cédria, PB 174, 1164, Hammam E Chatt, Tunisia

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Corresponding author: M Ben Fadhel, moez.benfadhel@yahoo.fr
Received Date: 23 Jul 2012
Accepted Date: 15 Dec 2012
Publish Date: 01 Feb 2014

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The lower part of Fahdene Formation outcropping in northeastern Tunisia is represented by pelagic sequences and characterized by an important siliciclastic fraction that includes radiolarian and organic-rich beds of Allam Member. Litho-biostratigraphic analysis based on planktic foraminifera and radiolaria shows that deposition of organic-rich beds of Allam Member is confined to the Microhedbergella rischi Zone through the lower part of Ticinella primula Zone. Age diagnostic radiolaria recovered from these beds has been identified to constrain a direct age of black shale deposition. The assemblages can be correlated with the radiolarian biochronozone U.A.10–11 indicating an Early Albian to early Middle Albian in age. Radiolarian assemblages composed of species characteristic of U.A.10 biochronozone (A. montisserei, D. gracilis) are associated with radiolarian taxa belonging to Costata Zone (U.A.9 Pseudoeucyrtis hanni and Thanarla pseudodecora), which can be correlated with Dercourt Member in the Ionian Zone and Paquier level of the Vocontian Basin (southeast of France). Biostratigraphic and abundance curves analysis has demonstrated significant diversification of cryptocephalic Nassellaria and Archaeodictyomitrae, probably adapted to eutrophic conditions that characterized the Aptian-Albian transition. Ecological conditions may have governed the stratigraphic range of many cosmopolitan taxa (i.e., Pseudodictyomitrae lodogaensis) compared with stratigraphic distributions schemes reported from other domains. The timing of black shales deposition was diachronic due to local geodynamic conditions and upwelling currents distribution. The Allam black shales are correlative with the oceanic anoxic event OAE1b which is characterized by the widespread of supraregionnally organic-rich beds in the Mediterranean Tethys basins across the Aptian-Albian transition.
- northeastern Tunisia,
- Albian,
- Allam Member,
- black shale,
- radiolaria,
- planktic foraminifera

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