Latest Pliensbachian to Early Toarcian depositional environment and organo-facies evolution in the North-German Basin (Hondelage Section)

Marten, Tim; Ruebsam, Wolfgang; Mutterlose, Jörg; Wiesenberg, Guido L B; Schwark, Lorenz

doi:10.1007/s00531-024-02433-7

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Marten, T., Ruebsam, W., Mutterlose, J., Wiesenberg, G. L. B., & Schwark, L. (2024). Latest Pliensbachian to Early Toarcian depositional environment and organo-facies evolution in the North-German Basin (Hondelage Section). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 113(8), 2043–2064. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-024-02433-7

Abstract

The Pliensbachian/Toarcian boundary interval represents a transition from a coldhouse into a hothouse climate state, involving the demise of a land-based cryosphere, initiating a third-order global sea-level rise. Within the intensely studied Northwest Tethyan shelf region, the South-German Basin has been investigated in more detail than the North-German Basin (NGB). We here provide a palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Pliensbachian/Toarcian transition from the Hondelage fossil excavation site located in the NGB employing organ