Ostracods from a Marmara Sea lagoon (Turkey) as tsunami indicators

This is the post print version of the article. The official published version can be obtained from the link below - Copyright @ Elsevier Ltd.A 352 cm long sediment core from Hersek Lagoon (Gulf of İzmit) was investigated for its ostracod species composition in order to evaluate the potential of ostracods to detect tsunami deposits in coastal environments. The Gulf of İzmit is the eastern bay of the Marmara Sea which is tectonically controlled by the North Anatolian Fault. Ostracod shells are rare in the lower third of the core, which probably represents a coastal wetland environment. According to radiocarbon dating of terrestrial plant remains, this unit was deposited between AD 500 and AD 800. Above, ostracod shells are abundant and dominantly monospecific, composed almost exclusively of the widespread brackish water ostracod Cyprideis torosa. This almost monospecific occurrence indicates the establishment and maintenance of the Hersek Lagoon after AD 800. Three distinct layers of mollusc shells and fragments contain ostracod shells of marine and to a lesser extent non-marine origin in addition to those of C. torosa. The shell layers are further characterized by significant maxima in total ostracod shell numbers. The high concentration of ostracod shells, the higher species numbers and the mixture of marine, lagoonal and non-marine ostracod shells shows that shell layers were formed as high-energy deposits resulting from tsunamis or large storms in the Marmara Sea. The partial occurrence of non-marine ostracod shells in the shell layers possibly indicates that tsunamis with extensive run-ups and significant backwash flows caused the high-energy deposits rather than large storms. The investigated sediments show that lagoonal ostracods can serve as good proxies for tsunamis or large storms through significant variations in total shell numbers, species numbers and the mixing of shells of different origin.Funding was provided by the European Union in the framework of the REL.I.E.F. (RELiable Information on Earthquake Faulting) project (EVG1-CT-2002-00069)

Revision, Dokumentation und Stratigraphie der Ostracoden des nordwestdeutschen Oberjura und Unter-Berriasium

Die Ostracodenfaunen des Unter-Oxfordium (höchste Omaten-Tone) bis Unter-Berriasium (Serpulit) im Niedersächsischen Becken werden, da die Forschungen hier seit den intensiven Bearbeitungen der 40er, 50er und beginnenden 60er Jahre stagnierten, auf der Grundlage eines modernen taxonomischen Konzeptes neu untersucht und zum Teil rekombiniert. Es werden 98 Arten und 6 Unterarten aus 36 Gattungen und 10 Untergattungen, davon eine neue Art (Mantelliana wietzensis n. sp.), beschrieben und rasterelektronenmikroskopisch dokumentiert. Acht Diagnosen - Cypridea binodosa MARTIN 1940, Cypridea dunkeri inversa MARTIN 1940, Rhinocypris jurassica (MARTIN 1940), Fabanella boloniensis (JONES 1882), Galliaecytheridea hiltermanni (STEGHAUS 1951), Cytheropteron bispinosum bispinosum SCHMIDT 1954, Cytheropteron bispinosum crassum SCHMIDT 1954 und Paranotacythere (Unicosta) interrupta (TRIEBEL 1941) - mußten emendiert werden, weitere vier Taxa werden anderen Gattungen zugewiesen: Macrodentina (P.) vinkeni GRAMANN & LUPPOLD 1991 der Gattung bzw. Untergattung Amphicythere (Amphicythere) OERTLI 1957, Limnocythere? inflata STEGHAUS 1951, Limnocythere? brevispina STEGHAUS 1951 und Limnocythere fragilis MARTIN 1940 der Gattung Mandelstamia LYUBIMOVA 1955 sowie Cytheridella? bamstorfensis MARTIN 1957 der Gattung bzw. Untergattung Marslatourella (Marslatourella?) MALZ 1959. Die bislang unter dem Begriff ’Cypridea aff. punctata" gefaßten Ostracoden werden zu Cypridea gr. lata MARTIN 1940 gestellt. Die im Erscheinungsbild völlig identischen Männchen von Galliaecytheridea hiltermanni (STEGHAUS 1951) und Galliaecytheridea wolburgi (STEGHAUS 1951) werden, da kein Unterscheidungskriterium zur Verfügung steht, als "Männchen der wolburgi / hiltermanni -Gruppe" zusammengefaßt. In drei fortlaufenden Reichweitentabellen für Nordwestdeutschland sind die zeitlichen Vorkommen der Taxa dargestellt und in drei weiteren Schemata mit denen in den benachbarten europäischen Becken in Relation gesetzt. Im Niedersächsischen Becken können im obengenannten Zeitraum (im Gegensatz zur bisher allgemein gebräuchlichen Standardgliederung mit 15 Ostracodenzonen) nunmehr 23 Zonen ausgeschieden werden, deren Grenzen nicht immer mit denen der herkömmlichen biostratigraphischen Gliederung mittels Ostracoden nach KLINGLER et al. (1962) korrellieren. Darüberhinaus wird immer deutlicher, daß auch die Formationsgrenzen nicht zwingend mit chronostratigraphischen Grenzen korrelieren. So ist die Korallenoolith / Kimmeridge-Grenze nicht mit der Oxfordium / Kimmeridgium-Grenze gleichzusetzen, der Korallenoolith (als Gesteins-Formation) reicht noch in das Unter-Kimmeridgium hinein. Im überregionalen Vergleich zeigt sich, daß die im Niedersächsischen Becken ausgegegliederten Zonen eher als Lokalzonen definiert werden müssen, da es sich hierbei, durch die paläogeographische Situation bedingt, um ein oftmals abgeschlossenes Becken mit eigenständiger fazieller Sonderentwicklung handelt.Based upon modem taxonomic concepts, the ostracod faunas from the Lower Oxfordian (uppermost Omaten-Tone) up to the Lower Berriasian (Serpulit) of the Lower Saxony Basin have been reinvestigated. 98 species and 6 subspecies out of 36 genera and 10 subgenera have been described and documented by SEM photos. Eight diagnoses – Cypridea binodosa MARTIN 1940, Cypridea dunkeri inversa MARTIN 1940, Rhinocypris jurassica (MARTIN 1940), Fabanella boloniensis (JONES 1882), Galliaecytheridea hiltermanni (STEGHAUS 1951), Cytheropteron bispinoswn bispinosum SCHMIDT 1954, Cytheropteron bispinoswn crasswn SCHMIDT 1954, and Paranotacythere (Unicosta) interrupta (TRIEBEL 1941) - have been emended. Four species have been recombined with other genera or subgenera: Macrodentina (P.) vinkeni GRAMANN & LUPPOLD 1991 with the genus Amphicythere (Amphicythere) OERTLI 1957, Limnocythere? inflata STEGHAUS 1951, Limnocythere? brevispina STEGHAUS 1951, and Limnocythere fragilis MARTIN 1940 with the genus Mandelstamia LYUBIMOVA 1955, Cytheridella? bamstorfensis MARTIN 1957 with the subgenus Marslatourella (Marslatourella?) MALZ 1959. In addition, the ostracods of the former "Cypridea aff. punctata" group have been recombined with Cypridea gr. lata MARTIN 1940. Moreover, the males of Galliaecytheridea hiltermanni (STEGHAUS 1951) and Galliaecytheridea wolburgi (STEGHAUS 1951) have been characterized as "males of the wolburgi / hiltermanni group" due to their absolute morphological identity. In three detailed diagrams, the stratigraphical ranges of the taxa in NW Germany are provided. In three additional diagrams, these ranges are compared with those in neighbouring European basins. 23 ostracod zones have been erected for the interval of time under study in the Lower Saxony Basin. In a few cases, boundaries of this new zonation do not coincide with one of the boundaries of the traditional standard subdivision (15 ostracod zones, KLINGLER et al. 1962). Moreover, some chronostratigraphical boundaries can not be correlated with lithostratigraphical ones. The (lithostratigraphical) Korallenoolith-Kimmeridge boundary, for instance, does not coincide with the (chronostratigraphical) Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian boundary, as previously suggested, because the uppermost part of the Korallenoolith Formation, at least in some areas, is Lower Kimmeridgian in age. Supraregional comparison of stratigrapical ranges clearly indicates that ostracods can only be used to establish a local zonation rather than a true biozonation in NW Germany. Because of its paleogeographical situation, the area under study has been a rather isolated basin during most of the time, thus providing its very own facies development and preventing better faunal relationships with neighbouring regions.thesisDFG, SUB Göttinge