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Depositional evolution of a lower Paleozoic portion of the Southalpine domain: the Mt. Pizzul area (Carnic Alps, Italy)

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The Carnic Alps represent the best exposed Paleozoic succession within the Alpine domain being fossiliferous, mostly non-metamorphic and largely complete. This study focuses on the area around Mt. Pizzul, because the bedrocks record well the basin dynamics and most of the units are conodont bearing. Our aims were to contribute to the procedure of formalization of the lithostratigraphic units and to understand the depositional and deformation history of the study area. The area has been mapped, tectonic overprint constrained and the successions described, measured and dated. As a second-order aim, we discuss these data to infer the relations with other parts of the Carnic basin and to recognize the global controls on sedimentation. The depositional evolution can be sketched as follows: pre-Hirnantian ramp-type margin; Hirnantian glacioeustatic-related deposits and unconformity; pelagic deposition in a ramp-type margin (Přídolí–Eifelian); slope formation and differentiation in buildup, foreslope and pelagic environments (Eifelian–Frasnian); transgression and reef drowning (Frasnian–Visean); probable subaerial exposures likely during in uppermost Famennian and Visean times; and turbidite deposition (Visean). Global controls or deposits suggesting a global control are documented, including the Boda Event, the Hirnantian glaciation, the Middle Devonian reef growth, the Kačák Event, and the high-frequency sea-level fluctuations around the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary. The drowning of the buildups here and elsewhere in the Carnic Alps started during the Frasnian, unlike observed globally. This suggests that local tectonics lead to progressive deepening up to the transition to turbidite deposition.

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Acknowledgments

We are indebted with all the members of the ‘Formal Lithostratigraphic Units in the Pre-Variscan Sequence of the Carnic Alps’ science group for fruitful, open and enthusiastic discussions. We warmly thank Hans Peter Schönlaub and Charles Ver Straeten for their thoughtful and stimulant reviews, which resulted in a greatly improved manuscript. MP research was founded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. EK and TJS are grateful to the Austrian Science Fund for financial support (Project: FWF P23775-B17). Researches by CC, MGC and AM were partly supported by grants RAS. This paper is a contribution to IGCP 591 (The Early to Middle Paleozoic revolution) and 596 (Climate change and biodiversity patterns in the Mid-Paleozoic). We wish to warmly thank Francesca, Silvio and all the wonderful people of the Lanza Hut for their friendship and hospitality.

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  1. International Research School of Planetary Sciences, Università d’Annunzio, Viale Pindaro 42, 65127, Pescara, Italy

    Monica Pondrelli

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, Università di Cagliari, Via Trentino 51, 09127, Cagliari, Italy

    Carlo Corradini, Maria Giovanna Corriga, Angelo Mossoni & Nicola Carta

  3. Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale, Via Marangoni 39-41, 33100, Udine, Italy

    Luca Simonetto

  4. Institute for Earth Sciences (Geology and Paleontology), University of Graz, Heinrichstrasse 26, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Erika Kido & Thomas J. Suttner

  5. Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche ed Ambientali, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Via Zamboni 67, 40126, Bologna, Italy

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Pondrelli, M., Corradini, C., Simonetto, L. et al. Depositional evolution of a lower Paleozoic portion of the Southalpine domain: the Mt. Pizzul area (Carnic Alps, Italy). Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 104, 147–178 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-014-1069-7

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