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Carbon And Oxygen Isotope Ratios In Rona Limestone, Romania, Stela Cuna, Dana Pop, Alexandru Hosu
Carbon And Oxygen Isotope Ratios In Rona Limestone, Romania, Stela Cuna, Dana Pop, Alexandru Hosu
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The carbon and oxygen isotopic compositions of limestones provide criteria for the evaluation of the depositional environment. For Jurassic and younger samples, the best discrimination between marine and fresh-water limestones is given by Z parameter, calculated as a linear correlation between δ13C and δ18O (‰ PDB). Rona Limestone (Upper Paleocene - Lower Eocene), outcropping on a small area in NW Transylvania (Meseş area) is a local lacustrine facies. There, it divides Jibou Formation into the Lower Red Member and the Upper Variegated Member, respectively. Recently, a sequence containing a marine nannoplankton assemblage was identified in the base of Rona deposits. …