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FT 2: Devonian-Carboniferous successions of the Barousse Area (central Pyrenees)

The general succession of the Late Devonian to Carboniferous strata is relatively comparable in the many parts of eastern and central Pyrenees. We will illustrate this during a one-day field trip in the Barousse area. Here the Late Devonian outer platform carbonate deposits are topped by Tournaisian to middle Visean starved basin facies, often siliceous. In the late Visean starts the syn-orogenic sedimentation phase. Thick detritic deposits (turbidites, etc.) locally contain large limestone olistolithes; which will here be illustrated by the so-called Ardengost Limestone. The basin is filled after the Serpukhovian and Bashkirian and younger Carboniferous marine deposits are only known further west. In the Barousse area, continental Permian sedimentary rocks witnesses small continental basins, which formed unconformably on top of the Carboniferous.

Date: June, 22^nd

Prize: 50 €

Field trip leaders: Markus Aretz, Elise Nardin