Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 42, 2018, 149-168 149 Late Jurassic evolution of the Jameson Land Basin, East Greenland – implications of the Blokelv-1 borehole Morten Bjerager, Peter Alsen, Jørgen A. Bojesen-Koefoed, Tove Nielsen, Stefan Piasecki and Anders Pilgaard Data from the recently drilled, fully cored Blokelv-1 borehole and previous cored boreholes in the Upper Jurassic of Jameson Land, central East Greenland, are integrated with published field studies to address the depositional evolution of the Jameson Land Basin in the Oxfordian–Volgian. In Jameson Land, the succession represents a marine shelf-to-basin transect in a W–SW-dipping half-graben. Laminated organic-rich mudstones were deposited in the central deep parts of the basin and grade up-slope into bioturbated sandy mudstones. Extensive shallow marine – deltaic sand prograded from the western and northern basin margins and formed prominent sandy shelf-edge wedges. Sand-rich density flows initiated by periodic collapse of the shelf edge deposited massive sand bodies on the slope and basin floor; these sands were prone to post-burial remobilisation to form injectite bodies. Basin evolution was controlled both by relative sea-level changes, typically correlatable with regional and global sea-level curves, and by rift tectonics. During periods with high relative sea level, the organic- rich muddy facies onlapped the sandy shelf environments; such periods of basinal expansion and onlap are recorded in the lower Oxfordian (Q. mariae Chronozone), the middle–upper Oxfordian (C. tenuiserratum – A. glosense Chronozones) and uppermost Oxfordian – upper Kimmeridgian (A. regulare – A. autissiodorensis Chronozones); the deepening, transgressive trend culminated in the mid-Kimmeridgian (A. eudoxus Chron). Marked progradation of the sandy shelf and associated deposition of gravity-flow sands on the slope and basin floor occurred in the early Oxfordian (C. cordatum Chron), the middle Oxfordian (C. densiplicatum Chron), the late Oxfordian (A. serratum Chron) and the early Volgian (P. elegans Chron). The basin architecture reflects periodic differential subsidence on the W- to SW-dipping fault block. The lower to middle Oxfordian is highly condensed in the east (<10 m) and thickens markedly towards the west (>300 m), reflecting accumulation during rift/fault-controlled block rotation. The upper Oxfordian – Kimmeridgian, in contrast, shows a broadly symmetrical distribution and records uniform regional subsidence. Keywords: Hareelv Formation, Jameson Land Basin, Blokelv-1, slope and basin floor deposition, relative sea level, sedimentary architecture ___________________________________________________________________________ Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Øster Voldgade 10, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark. E-mail: mbj@geus.dk The exposed Jurassic succession in Jameson Land, and in eastern Greenland in general, has a long history of geological research. In the last decades, it has acquired special relevance in a petroleum geological context as an analogue for similar basin settings offshore along the East Greenland margin and on the conjugate Norwegian continental shelf. The Upper Jurassic Hareelv Formation in Jameson Land represents a complex intercalation of organic-rich marine mudstones and potential reservoir- quality gravity flow and injected sandstones in an appar- © GEUS, 2018. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 42, 149–168. Available at: www.geus.dk/bulletin42 mailto:mbj@geus.dk http://www.geus.dk/bulletin42 ; ; ; ; ; ; Bay Fjelde Blokel v Savoia Halvø Hal l Bredn ing Kap Leslie Hartz Fjeld Charcot Havn Mudder- bugten Jameson Land H urry In le t Liverpool LandMilne Land A A' Hors ens Fjo rd Carlsberg F jord Na tho rst Fj ord Fle ming Fjo rd Katedralen Fortet Raukelv Olympen Parnas Fossil- bjerget Mikael Bjerg Hare- elv Gåse- elv Ugle- elv 22°W 72°N 71°N 72°N 71°30'N 70°30'N 23°W24°W25°W 22°W 25°W MBJ artikel 2 fig 1 71°30'NMajor dyke/sill Fault Ice River Quaternary Hesteelv Fm Hartz Fjeld Fm Paleogene basalts Paleogene Cenozoic Raukelv Fm Hareelv Fm, Salix Dal Mb Olympen Fm Fossilbjerget Fm/Pelion Fm Neill Klinter Gp Kap Stewart Gp Triassic Charcot Bugt Fm Kap Leslie Fm Basement Hareelv Fm, Sjællandselv Mb Hareelv Fm, Katedralen Mb Devonian Carboniferous Permian 20 km S c o r e s b y S u n d Jyllandselv Sjællandselv Lollandselv Lollandselv-2 Lollandselv-1 Falsterelv-1 Jyllandselv-1 Blokelv-1 Sjællandselv-1-2 -3 Falsterelv Fig. 1. Geological map of Jameson Land showing the locations of cored stratigraphic boreholes and selected outcrop localities. Based on the digital Greenland geological map at a scale of 1:500 000 and printed map series at a scale of 1:100 000; only named rivers are shown. A–A’ indicates the line of the cross-section in Fig. 2. 151 ently non-predictive stratigraphical context (Surlyk et al. 2007). Upper Jurassic sequence stratigraphy in the basin is thus based on the exposed succession in Milne Land (Surlyk 1991; Larsen et al. 2003), which is considered to represent a separate fault block within the Jameson Land Basin (Figs 1, 2). The presence of Jurassic deposits in Jameson Land has been known since the early 1800s (Madsen 1904; Rosen- krantz 1929; Aldinger 1935). Large-scale geological mapping campaigns of the region in the mid-1900s (Do- novan 1957; Haller 1971) were followed by systematic detailed mapping by the Geological Survey of Greenland (GGU now GEUS) and the University of Copenhagen, resulting in formal lithostratigraphic subdivision of the Jurassic succession in Jameson Land (Surlyk et al. 1973), later provisionally revised by Surlyk (2003). Shallow cor- ing campaigns were conducted in 1982–1983 and 1993 by GGU, targeting Upper Jurassic potential source rocks (Piasecki et al. 1996). The biostratigraphic subdivision of the succession has been predominantly based on ammo- nites collected over numerous field seasons, combined with palynomorph assemblages, mainly prepared from mudstone samples. A review of previous biostratigraphic data is included in the presentation of the biostratigraphic subdivision of the Blokelv-1 core by Alsen & Piasecki (2018, this volume). Modern sedimentological and stratigraphical studies on the Upper Jurassic based on field work were conduct- ed over the last decades by Larsen et al. (2003) in Milne Land and by Surlyk (1987), Surlyk & Noe-Nygaard (1991, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005), Larsen & Surlyk (2003), Bruhn & Surlyk (2004) and Surlyk et al. (2007) in Jame- son Land. The main focus was on the coarse-grained, sand-rich units and their relationships to overlying and underlying mudstone units, whereas the mainly poorly- exposed mudstone successions attracted less attention. A comprehensive review and summary of the Jurassic lit- erature was presented by Surlyk (2003). More recently, geochemical results from Milne Land were presented by Strogen et al. (2005) and a biostratigraphic review on the Jurassic was published by Kelly et al. (2015). This paper provides new information on unweathered and well-preserved core material from the central part of Jameson Land represented by the recently released, 233 m long Blokelv-1 core (Bjerager et al. 2018a, this volume) and by cores, 30–100 m deep, from the earlier drilling campaigns (Requejo et al. 1989; Piasecki et al. 1996; Pil- gaard 2012). The thick and stratigraphically complete Blokelv-1 core provides a stratigraphic link between the previously drilled cores through the Upper Jurassic suc- cession and outcrops across Jameson Land and Milne Land (Figs 3, 4). The stratigraphic and sedimentologi- cal analyses of the cores, integrated with published field studies, contribute to refinement of the understanding of the depositional evolution of a rift-controlled shelf– basin transect in the Late Jurassic. Geological setting The Jameson Land Basin is up to about 150 km wide and more than 200 km long and contains a nearly complete post-Caledonian to Lower Cretaceous sedimentary suc- cession (Fig. 1). The Jameson Land Basin thus contains a continental Devonian basin succession up to 8 km thick, succeeded by N–S-trending and west-dipping Carbonif- erous rift basins. Early Permian uplift resulted in the for- mation of a regional peneplain (Kempter 1961), which Fig. 2. Geological profile (see location in Fig. 1), based on Larsen (1980), Birkelund et al. (1984), Larsen et al. 2003, Surlyk (2003), Guarnieri et al. (2017), reprocessed AWI seismic lines in Hall Bredning (Fechner 1994; GEUS unpublished data 2018), Geological map 1:100 000 (Geo- logical Survey of Greenland), and the Blokelv-1 core. CB: Charcot Bugt Fm. Fo: Fossilbjerget Fm. Ha: Hareelv Fm. HF: Hartz Fjeld Fm. KL: Kap Leslie Fm. KS: Kap Stewart Gp. NK: Neill Klinter Gp. Ol: Olympen Fm. Pe: Pelion Fm. Ra: Raukelv Fm. Tr: Triassic. KL CB HF Basement Ra Ha Ol Fo Pe NK KS Tr Pe Fo Basalt Basement 1 Al tit ud e (k m ) 0.5 –0.5 0 Tr Bay Fjelde Hartz Fjeld Ugleelv Hurry Inlet Liverpool Land Sjællandselv Jameson LandMilne Land Charcot Havn Blokelv-1 -1-2-3 Katedralen Horsens FjordHall Bredning MBJ_Artikel 2_Fig2_STS 152152 was segmented during the development of Late Permian – Early Triassic rift basins. A regional structural change to NE–SW-oriented rift basins has been proposed for the Early Triassic (Seidler et al. 2004; Guarnieri et al. 2017). Renewed rifting in Jurassic times was oriented mainly N–S with a proposed major fault situated in the western part of the Scoresby Sund fjord (Hall Bredning) bounding a general west-dipping half-graben in Jameson Land (Fig. 2). The Milne Land fault block was onlapped in the Middle Jurassic (Larsen et al. 2003) whereas the Permian peneplain on Liverpool Land was onlapped in the Middle –Late Triassic and Jurassic. The nature of the northern and southern limits of the Jurassic basin is less clear. An inferred NW–SE-trending fault in Kong Os- car Fjord between Jameson Land and Traill Ø has been suggested to have influenced basin development (Surlyk 1978), and may be a continuation of the major Jan Mayen Fracture Zone and Lineament on the Norwegian conti- nental shelf (e.g. Lundin & Doré 1997; Guarnieri et al. 2017). Towards the south, the basin probably continues south of the Scoresby Sund fjord beneath the kilometre- thick Palaeogene basalt succession (Larsen 1980; Larsen & Marcussen 1992; Nøhr-Hansen & Piasecki 2002). In Jurassic times, the basin evolved as an asymmetric sag with deposition of a >2 km thick succession in the deepest parts of the basin (Surlyk 2003). A major N– S-oriented fault zone in Hall Bredning (inner Scoresby Sund) is suggested to have controlled the syn-rift depo- sitional systems in the basin (Figs 1, 2, 4). Deposition in Early–Middle Jurassic times took place in lacustrine and successively shallow marine shelf settings (Dam & Surlyk 1992, 1998). An internal slope developed in the Oxford- ian, resulting in differentiation into a shallow marine sandy shelf to the north, a slope and a southern deeper- Fig. 3. The Middle–Upper Jurassic succession in the Ugleelv valley in Jameson Land, viewed towards the east (Liverpool Land in the distance). Shallow marine sandstones of the Pelion Formation (c. 100 m thick) overlie the Middle Juassic Neill Klinter Group and are in turn overlain by grey silty mudstones of the Fossilbjerget Formation (c. 100 m thick). The latter is succeeded unconformably by black mudstones and interca- lated yellow massive sandstones of the Hareelv Formation, 150 m thick. Hareelv Fm Hareelv Fm Neill Klinter Gp Fossilbjerget Fm Fossilbjerget Fm Pelion Fm Pelion Fm GØ06_606_MBJ_Blokelv MBJ_Artikel 2_Fig3_STS 153 water basin setting (Bruhn & Surlyk 2004). The Late Ju- rassic evolution of the Jameson Land Basin is considered analogous to basins offshore NW Europe, as reflected in the stratigraphic correlation charts in Surlyk (2003), Sur- lyk & Ineson (2003) and Stoker et al. (2017). The Late Jurassic was thus characterised by an overall sea-level low- stand in the middle Oxfordian, a highstand in the Kim- meridgian and a lowstand in the Volgian (Surlyk 1991). A major unconformity showing valley incision marks the boundary to the marine Lower Cretaceous Hesteelv For- mation, which forms the top of the Mesozoic succession in Jameson Land (Surlyk et al. 1973). Palaeogene basaltic intrusions form prominent WNW–ESE-trending dykes and sills in the basinal succession, and extrusive volcanics erosionally overlie the Jurassic to the west in Milne Land. Material and methods This study is based on sedimentological descriptions of seven fully cored shallow boreholes, 30–100 m deep, drilled in the 1980s and 1990s, and of the recent fully cored Blokelv-1 borehole, 233 m deep (Bjerager et al. 2018b, this volume). Total gamma-ray logs are available for all except the Sjællandselv cores. Spectral gamma ray logs and a density log are available for the Blokelv-1 core (Bjerager et al. 2018b, this volume). The cores repre- sent a NW–SE-oriented transect from the shelf edge via the slope to the deep central part of the basin with the Blokelv-1 core serving as a key correlation link, by virtue of its stratigraphic completeness (Figs 4–6). Sedimentological data, petrophysical log trends and ammonite and palynostratigraphical data from the cores are all integrated with published outcrop studies and GEUS in-house, unpublished field data from Jameson Fig. 4. Stratigraphic scheme based on the geological timescale of Gradstein et al. (2012,) showing a W–E cross-section from Milne Land to central Jameson Land, a S–N transect in Jameson Land and an inferred relative sea-level curve. As: Astartedal Mb. CB: Charcot Bugt Fm. Mu: Mudderbugt Mb. Pe: Pernaryggen Mb. Vi: Visdal Mb. Modified from Larsen et al. (2003) and Surlyk (2003). C re ta ce ou s Lo w er U pp er Ju ra ss ic O xf or di an l l l l m u u u Sy st em Se rie s Te th ys (S ta nd ar d) C hr on oz on es Re lat ive se a le ve l Bo re al Su bs ta ge m Ki m m er id gia n Be rr ias ian Ti th on ian Ry az . Vo lgi an Age (Ma) 150 160 145 155 Stage GØ02_02_175_MBJ_Blokelv.eps W S N Bl ok el v- 1 Bl ok el v- 1 Jy lla nd se lv- 1 Fa lst er el v- 1 Lo lla nd se lve lv- 1 Lo lla nd se lve lv- 2 Sjæ lla nd se lve lv- 3 Sjæ lla nd se lve lv- 2 Sjæ lla nd se lve lv- 1 Bay Fjelde Hartz Fjeld Kap Leslie Hall Bredning RaukelvGåseelv Olympen E Milne Land Jameson Land Jameson Land R. c. A. s. A. g. C. t. C. d. C. c. Q. m. P. b. P. e. P. w. P. s. P. p. Krebsedal Mb Hartz Fjeld Fm c c c c Sa Pe Gråkløft Mb Cardioceraskløft Mb Bays Elv Mb Kap Leslie Fm Al Kosmocerasdal Mb Mu P. n. A. ro. A. m. A. eu. A. a. A. re. Hennigryggen Mb (lower part) Shallow marine sandstone Hiatus Shelf transition silty–sandy mudstone and heterolith Deep marine sandstone Shelf–basin mudstone Potential source rock Condensed sectionMass-flow sandstone Injected sandstone Fault (inferred) Prograding unit 140 km 120 km Hareelv Fm Hareelv Fm Hareelv Fm?Hareelv Fm? Hades MbHades Mb Katedralen Mb Katedralen Mb Zeus Mb Olympen FmOlympen Fm Sjællandselv Mb Raukelv Fm Raukelv Fm Vi CB As MBJ_Artikel 2_Fig4_STS 154154 C Fault CondensedC GØ01_06M_034_MBJ Deep-water marine sandstone bodies Drowned sandy (relict) shelf (Olympen Fm, Zeus Mb)Shallow marine sandstone Offshore marine mudstone Inferred coastline Transition zone marine sandstone/ mudstone heterolith N 50 kmC D A B Jameson Land Traill Ø Milne Land MBJ_Artikel 2_Fig5_STS Fig. 5. Late Jurassic palaeogeography of the Jameson Land area, modified after Surlyk (2003). A: Early Oxfordian Q. mariae Chronozone. B: Early–middle Oxfordian C. cordatum – C. densiplicatum Chronozones. C: Latest Oxfordian – late Kimmeridgian A. regulare – A. eudoxus Chronozones. D: Early Volgian. 155 Land and Milne Land and seismic data from Hall Bred- ning. This provides a robust and detailed stratigraphic framework at ammonite chronozone level (Alsen & Piasecki 2018, this volume) that forms the framework for the description of the Late Jurassic evolution of the basin described here. The cores together provide a re- cord of the lower Oxfordian – lower Volgian. The three northern cores at Falsterelv and Lollandselv (GGU 303139–303141) document the lower–middle Oxford- ian, whereas the southern cores at Jyllandselv (GGU 303142), Blokelv (GGU 511101) and Sjællandselv (GGU 303114–301116) span the middle Oxfordian – lower Volgian interval (Figs 4, 6–9). Regional depositional evolution The temporal evolution of the Jameson Land Basin in the Late Jurassic as recorded by the integrated subsurface borehole data is based primarily on the biostratigraphic framework developed for these cored sections (Piasecki et al. 1996; Alsen & Piasecki 2018, this volume). The combination of the deep-water nature of these sediments and the complex stratigraphic relationships developed in the extensively mobilised, intruded basinal successions precludes systematic sequence stratigraphic analysis, as has been successfully applied in the marginal facies in Jameson Land and Milne Land (Larsen et al. 2003; Lar- sen & Surlyk 2003; Surlyk & Noe-Nygaard 1991, 2000, 2005). Although the following account is thus structured on the basis of the biostratigraphic subdivision into chro- nozones, recognition of sand-dominated and mud-dom- inated sedimentary units of comparable ages permits the correlation of certain sedimentary bodies between wells, despite the uncertainties associated with sediment mobi- lisation and intrusion (see Figs 6, 8). Lower Oxfordian Q. mariae and C. cordatum Chronozones The succession referred to the Q. mariae Chronozone records a general regional sea-level rise in the basin (Figs 4, 5A), such that dark grey mudstones of the Kosmocer- asdal Member, up to 10 m thick, drape the basin margin in Milne Land (Callomon & Birkelund 1980; Birke- lund et al. 1984; Larsen et al. 2003). In central Jameson Land, the chronozone comprises dark grey and black silty mudstones of the Hades Member, Olympen For- mation (Larsen & Surlyk 2003; Bruhn & Surlyk 2004). The chronozone is also recognised in the basal part of the Lollandselv-1 core, where it comprises bioturbated sandy mudstones (Figs 6, 9), and at outcrop in the basal Hareelv Formation mudstones in the Ugleelv (Poulsen 1985) and Gåseelv valleys. The C. cordatum Chronozone is characterised by prominent shallow marine sand clinothems (c. 40 m thick) that prograde eastwards in Milne Land (unit CB4 of the Visdal Member, Larsen et al. 2003). The correla- tive unit in Jameson Land is dominated by gravity-flow sand bodies that were transported from the shelf edge at the northern edge of the basin and down-slope towards the south and south-east. In the Lollandselv-1 core, this chronozone is over 80 m thick (Fig. 6; Pilgaard 2012); individual sand units are 0.5 to 20 m thick, commonly show a downslope increase in thickness and are interca- lated with bioturbated sandy mudstones. At Olympen, the C. cordatum Chronozone is not recognised biostrati- graphically but this regressive phase may be represented by deeply incised gully-fill sediments at the top of the Hades Member (Larsen & Surlyk 2003). Middle Oxfordian C. densiplicatum and C. tenuiserratum Chronozones The uppermost C. cordatum Chronozone and the lower C. densiplicatum Chronozone record a sea-level rise in the basin with deposition of offshore bioturbated sandy mudstones as recorded in the Falsterelv and Lolland- selv cores (Figs 4, 6) and traced to the southern part of Traill Ø (Bruhn & Surlyk 2004). In the proximal setting at Olympen, sandy progradational deposits of the Zeus Member (Olympen Formation) up to 150 m thick, rep- resent the deltaic shelf edge during the C. densiplicatum Chron (Figs 1, 4, 5B; Larsen & Surlyk 2003; Bruhn & Surlyk 2004). The upper C. densiplicatum Chronozone defines a NW–SE shelf-edge – slope – basin-floor tran- sect: the Zeus Member shelf-edge facies correlate with massive gravity-flow sands (c. 10 m thick) in a slope set- ting at Lollandselv and Falsterelv passing into basin-floor turbidites and massive sands in the Blokelv-1 core (>17 m thick; Figs 6–8; Bjerager et al. 2018b, this volume). At the western margin of the basin, in Milne Land, this interval is equivalent to a succession of shallow marine and fluvial sandstones and conglomerates (6 m thick) referred to the Mudderbugt Member (Charcot Bugt For- mation; Larsen et al. 2003). The succeeding sea-level rise recorded in the C. tenuiserratum Chronozone is repre- sented by a succession of bioturbated sandy mudstones 156156 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Olympen Fm NNW Lo w er O xf or di an M id dl e O xf or di an Hareelv Fm Lollandselv-2 (303140) Lollandselv-1 (303139) Falsterelv-1 (303141) C. tenuiserratum C. tenuiserratum C. densiplicatum C. densiplicatum A. glosense C. cordatum Q. mariae 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 4.5 km 5.3 km 11.7 km 0 100 GRTotal (API units) 0 100 GRTotal (API units) 0 125 GRTotal (API units) C. cordatum C. densiplicatum C. cordatum Fig. 6. Correlation panel (broadly NNW–SSE) of the cored borehole sections in Jameson Land. GRTotal (where available), lithological and biostratigraphic summary data are given for the individual cored sections; additional sedimentological data are presented in Figs 7–9. 157 0 10 20 30 5 10 20 30 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 3 10 20 30 40 Sjællandselv-2 (303115) Sjællandselv-1 (303114) Sjællandselv-3 (303116) Jyllandselv-1 (303142) Hareelv Fm (Katedralen Mb) Hareelv Fm (Sjællandselv Mb) SSE U pp er O xf or di an Lo w er K im m er id gia n U pp er K im m er id gia n M id dl e O xf or di an Lo w er V ol gia n Blokelv-1 (511101) 10 H a re e lv F m 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 P. elegans A. autissiodorensis A. eudoxus A. mutabilis P. baylei – R. cymodoce R. cymodoce P. baylei P. baylei A. regulare – A. rosenkrantzi A. regulare – A. rosenkrantzi A. glosense – A. serratum C. tenuiserratum 3.9 km 11.3 km C. densiplicatum 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 210 220 230 233.8 R. cymodoce Mudstone, laminated (basin floor) Sandy, silty mudstone, bioturbated (slope) Heterolithic sandstone/mudstone (slope – basin floor) Sandstone, homogeneous (slope – basin floor) Sandstone (injectite) Lithology and depositional environment Igneous intrusion Belemnite Ammonite Bivalve Brachiopod Correlation line Biostratigraphic correlation line 0 150 GRTotal (API units) GRTotal (API units) 0 100200 158158 Chrono. Standard chronozones GØ04_02M_453_01_MBJ_Blokelv_REG MBJ_Artikel 2_Fig7_STS U pp er Ju ra ss ic Ki m m er id gia n up pe r up pe r lo w er lo w er O xf or di an P. elegans A. autissiodorensis A. mutabilis P. baylei – R. cymodoce P. baylei A. regulare – A. rosenkrantzi A. glosense – A. serratum C. tenuiserratum C. densiplicatum Volgian ? A. eudoxus R. cymodoce 0 0 5 10 15100 200 GRTotal (API units) Blokelv-1 (511101) U (ppm) 20 Depth (m) 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 210 220 230 10 Depth (m) 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 210 220 230 233.8 Be Be Mudstone Heterolith (mudstone/sandstone) Sandstone Sandstone, remobilised (intruded) Lithology Igneous intrusion Be Ripple cross-lamination Wavy bedding Slump Sandstone intrusion Small mudstone intraclasts Bentonite Large mudstone clast Coalified wood Belemnite Ammonite Bivalve Brachiopod Structures, biota Parallel lamination/ bedding Diffuse stratification Clay Si Sand Pebbl. Fig. 7. Sedimentological log of the Blokelv-1 core showing the biostratigraphical sub- division together with total and spectral (uranium) gamma-ray logs. For additional biostratigraphical and sedimentological data, see Alsen & Piasecki (2018, this volume) and Bjerager et al. (2018b, this volume). 159 (c. 20 m thick) in the slope setting at Lollandselv and lam- inated basinal mudstones (c. 9 m thick) at the Blokelv-1 location (Figs 6, 8–10). Upper Oxfordian A. glosense, A. serratum, A. regulare and A. rosenkrantzi Chronozones The A. glosense Chronozone records a further rise in sea level, the zone being represented by black, laminated ba- sin-floor mudstones (Katedralen Member, Hareelv For- mation) in the Blokelv-1 and Falsterelv-1 cores. Similar facies crop out at Ugleelv (Surlyk et al. 1973) and Gåse- elv (Fig. 1), and offshore bioturbated sandy siltstones of the Kosmocerasdal Member comprise the chronozone in Milne Land. A prominent relative sea-level fall is rep- resented in the succeeding A. serratum Chronozone, as testified by shallow marine sandstones (0–70 m thick) of the Aldinger Elv Member (‘Pecten sandstone’) in Milne Land (Callomon & Birkelund 1980; Larsen et al. 2003), and by basin-floor, gravity-flow sandstones at Blokelv (Figs 4, 6, 7). The combined thickness of the A. glosense – A. serratum zones is c. 48 m in Blokelv-1, 40 m at Ugleelv and 10–80 m in Milne Land. The upper part of the A. serratum Chronozone in the Blokelv-1 core displays a marked increase in the general spectral gamma-ray uranium signal in the mudstones. This culminates in the lower part of the A. regulare Chronozone, and possibly, also in the lower part of the A. rosenkrantzi Chronozone, reflecting increasingly poorly oxygenated conditions on the sea floor (Bjerager et al. 2018b, this volume; Fig. 7). Sedimentation was domi- nated by the accumulation of black laminated muds and intercalated homogenous gravity-flow sands that were largely remobilised post-depositionally and injected into the muds, a feature characteristic of the Katedralen Mem- ber of the Hareelv Formation (Surlyk & Noe-Nygaard 2001; Surlyk et al. 2007). Coeval deposition in Milne Land is represented by offshore sandy mudstones (Bays Elv Member) although these sediments were deposited in a considerably shallower water setting and have no source-rock potential (Strogen et al. 2005), in contrast to the Katedralen Member in the Blokelv and Jyllandselv cores (Bojesen-Koefoed et al. 2018, this volume). The Jyllandselv-1 core contains markedly less gravity flows and sandstone injectites compared with the correspond- ing interval in the Blokelv-1 core (Fig. 6), hinting at the considerable lateral variability of this unit, a feature that is also evident in exposures (Fig. 11). The combined thickness of the A. regulare – A. rosen- krantzi Chronozones is 15–40 m thick in Milne Land (Callomon & Birkelund 1980), 39 m in Blokelv-1 and 23 m in Jyllandselv-1. The upper Oxfordian – Volgian is absent north of Falsterelv in Jameson Land (Fig. 1). It thus remains open to speculation whether the sandy shelf continued to prograde southwards, or was aggradational or even retrogradational in the late Oxfordian (Fig. 4). The former middle Oxfordian sandy shelf area may have formed a starved, bypass shelf in the late Oxfordian with the depocentre shifting to the deeper part of the basin, farther south. Regardless of the nature of the sandy shelf development, the Oxfordian provided a source area for the massive gravity-flow sands deposited in basinal areas due to collapse of the sandy shelf margin. This situation lasted well into the Kimmeridgian (Figs 4, 5C). Lower Kimmerigian P. baylei and R. cymodoce Chronozones Only the deeper parts of the basin in Jameson Land have deposits preserved from this interval, i.e. from Jyllandselv and southwards (Figs 1, 4, 6). The deposits are similar to those of the underlying chronozones, being dominated by basinal mudstones in the Blokelv-1 and Jyllandselv cores and represented by intervals 33 m thick and 34 m thick, respectively (Fig. 6). An overall increase succeeded by a decrease in the gamma-ray trend is recorded in the mudstone succession (Fig. 7). As in the late Oxfordian, the shelf area to the north probably represented a starved shelf with condensed deposition (Fig. 5C). The sandy shelf edge became unstable and was subject to collapse during minor sea-level falls or during minor tectonic events, thereby serving as a source for gravity flows that transported sand-rich sediment downslope to the basin floor (Surlyk et al. 2007). In Milne Land, the offshore mudstones of the Bays Elv Member are overlain by sandy mudstones of the Cardioceras Kløft Member at the boundary between the P. baylei and R. cymodoce Chro- nozones suggesting a relative shallowing of the basin at this time (Callomon & Birkelund 1980); the combined thickness is 30–40 m in this area. Upper Kimmeridgian A. mutabilis, A. eudoxus and A. autissiodorensis Chronozones This interval is recorded in the Blokelv-1 core (78 m thick) and in the lower levels of the Sjællandselv-3 core 160160 (10 m observed) and is assigned to the Katedralen Mem- ber (Fig. 6). It comprises roughly equal proportions of interbedded black, organic-rich, laminated mudstones yielding very high gamma-ray values and massive gravity- flow sandstones and injectites. Heterolithic mudstones and sandstones dominate the upper 13 m of the unit (Fig. 6). The equivalent interval in Milne Land is 80–110 m thick where the boundary between the sandy mudstones of the Cardioceras Kløft Member and the black mud- stones of the Gråkløft Member (potential source rocks) corresponds to the boundary between the A. mutabilis and A. eudoxus Chronozones (Birkelund et al. 1984; Strogen et al. 2005). According to Surlyk (2003), a peak sea-level highstand prevailed in the region during the A. eudoxus Chron, an event recorded widely in the North Atlantic region (Surlyk 2003; Haq 2017). In the Blokelv-1 core, the uranium gamma-ray signal shows the highest consistent values in mudstones around the A. mutabilis – A. eudoxus Chronozone boundary and in the lower part of the A. eudoxus Chronozone. Mudstones in the upper levels of the A. eudoxus Chronozone show an upward-decreasing uranium gamma-ray trend and are progressively interbedded with prominent units of grav- ity-flow sandstones; these features may reflect a relative sea-level fall (Figs 4, 6, 7). Mudstones in the uppermost Kimmeridgian A. au- tissiodorensis Chronozone form five discrete packets, typically c. 5 m thick, that show upward-increasing gam- ma-ray trends followed by thinner decreasing trends; suc- cessive units show decreasing peak uranium levels (Fig. 7). These cycles may record climate-induced variations in the production of organic algae (e.g. Tyson 1996) or alternatively represent the autocyclic waxing and waning of detrital muddy sediment input. The mudstone packets are capped by gravity-flow sandstone units that were to some extent remobilised and injected after burial. Lower Volgian P. elegans Chronozone The lower Volgian is present in the Blokelv-1 and Sjæl- landselv cores and documents a basinal deepening trend from north to south. Medium-grained massive sand- stones of the Sjællandselv Member characterise the base of the P. elegans Chronozone in the Blokelv-1 core; the grain size of these sandstones is consistently coarser than that of the gravity-flow sandstones of the underlying Katedralen Member (Fig. 7). Outcrops adjacent to the Blokelv-1 drilling location indicate that the sandstone units are laterally continuous over several kilometres and are interpreted to represent base-of-slope mass flows de- rived from the collapse of sandy high-angle clinothems in the shallow marine Raukelv Formation (Surlyk 2003; Surlyk & Noe-Nygaard 2005). The Sjællandselv Member sandstones do not show injection features in the vicinity of the Blokelv-1 drill site. The lower Volgian in the Sjæl- landselv cores, however, comprises basinal mudstones and remobilised sandstones of the Katedralen Member, reflecting a more basinal location relative to the Blokelv-1 core. In Milne Land, the P. elegans Chronozone consists of deep-water, organic-rich mudstones of the Gråkløft Member. Lower–middle Volgian Deposition of basinal organic-rich mudstone continued in the southernmost part of the Jameson Land Basin contemporaneously with south-eastward progradation of coarse sandy clinoform beds of the Raukelv Formation from the early Volgian P. pectinatus Chron to the mid- dle Volgian. Four major prograding units are recorded in the southern part of Jameson Land where they represent a major basin-filling phase (Surlyk & Noe-Nygaard 1991; Surlyk & Noe-Nygaard 2005). In the western, proximal part of the area (Milne Land), coeval shallow marine deposits are represented by the Krebsedal, Pernaryggen and Astartedal Members (Kap Leslie Formation) and the lower part of the Hennigryggen Member (Hartz Fjeld Formation) (Birkelund et al. 1984). Both the Raukelv Formation in Jameson Land and the lower Hartz Fjeld Formation in Milne Land are capped by a major erosional unconformity that formed during an important sea-level fall in the latest Volgian – earliest Ryazanian (Surlyk 1991). Discussion Depositional sequences and relative sea level Sequence stratigraphic and tectonostratigraphic subdivi- sions of the Jurassic – lowermost Cretaceous succession based on large-scale depositional systems in the Jameson Land Basin were presented by Surlyk (1991, 2003). De- tailed sequence stratigraphic models based on the Bajo- cian–Oxfordian interval in Milne Land and the Callo- vian–Oxfordian and early–middle Volgian of Jameson Land were presented by Larsen et al. (2003), Larsen & Surlyk (2003) and Surlyk & Noe-Nygaard (1991, 2000, 161 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Mud Sand Gr Mud Sand Gr Mud Sand Gr Lollandselv-2 (303140) Slope Basin Falsterelv-1 (303141) Blokelv-1 (511101) A. glosense – A. serratum C. tenuiserratum C. tenuiserratum 8,5 km 14,9 km C. densiplicatum C. densiplicatum A. glosense C. cordatum 190 200 210 220 230 233.8 TD C. cordatum 0 50 100 GRTotal (API units) 0 50 100 GRTotal (API units) 0 100 200 GRTotal (API units) MBJ_Artikel 2_Fig8_STS Ripple cross-lamination Wavy bedding Slump Sandstone intrusion Small mudstone intraclasts Bioturbation Large mudstone clast Coalified wood Belemnite Ammonite Bivalve Brachiopod Shells Structures, biota Parallel lamination/ bedding Diffuse stratification Mudstone, laminated (basin floor) Sandy, silty mudstone, bioturbated (slope) Heterolithic sandstone/mudstone (slope – basin floor) Sandstone, homogeneous (slope – basin floor) Sandstone (injectite) Lithology and depositional environment Fig. 8. Sedimentological and gamma-ray logs of the cored sections Lollandselv-2, Falsterelv-1 and the lower part of Blokelv-1 showing biostrati- graphic and lithostratigraphic correlations. 162162 2005), respectively. The succession in Milne Land was deposited in a proximal setting at the margin of the Jameson Land Basin, and furthermore accumulated on a different fault block than the central parts of the Jame- son Land Basin (Fig. 2). The cored sections in Jameson Land, however, facilitate detailed comparison of the depositional evolution of the proximal Milne Land and Jameson Land sediments with the deeper-water basinal facies of Jameson Land in the early Oxfordian – early Vol- gian period. Regressive phases in the shelf-margin succes- sions correlate broadly with basinal intervals dominated by gravity-flow sandstone units, as constrained by the 0 10 20 30 5 10 20 30 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 3 10 20 30 40 0 50 100 0 50 100 150 GRTotal (API units) GRTotal (API units) Sjællandselv-2 (303115) Sjællandselv-1 (303114) Sjællandselv-3 (303116) Jyllandselv-1 (303142) Lollandselv-1 (303139) MBJ_Artikel 2_Fig9_STS Mud Sand Gr Mud Sand Gr Mud Sand Gr Mud Sand Gr Mud Sand Gr Ripple cross-lamination Wavy bedding Slump Sandstone intrusion Small mudstone intraclasts Bioturbation Large mudstone clast Coalified wood Belemnite Ammonite Bivalve Structures, biota Parallel lamination/ bedding Diffuse stratification Mudstone, laminated (basin floor) Sandy, silty mudstone, bioturbated (slope) Heterolithic sandstone/mudstone (slope – basin floor) Sandstone, homogeneous (slope – basin floor) Sandstone (injectite) Lithology and depositional environment Shells Fig. 9. Sedimentological logs of the cored sections Lollandselv-1, Jyllandselv-1, Sjællandselv-1, -2 and -3. 163 biostratigraphic results from the underlying and overly- ing mudstone units (Fig. 7). The potential complications in correlation associated with remobilised, intrusive sand bodies are acknowledged but these broad correlations are supported by gamma-ray trends in the enveloping mud- stones, as discussed below. The resulting relative sea-level curve (Fig. 4) compares well with regional and global sea-level curves in the literature (e.g. Hesselbo 2008; Haq 2017). A marked sea-level rise characterised the early Oxford- ian (C. mariae Chron) as reflected by regional deposition of offshore muds (Fig. 5A). It was followed by a fall in rel- ative sea level, recorded by a progradational unit of shal- low marine sandstones in the lower–middle Oxfordian C. cordatum and C. densiplicatum Chronozones in Milne Land (Larsen et al. 2003). The unit correlates with regres- sive shelf-edge deltaic sandstones of the Zeus Member in the Olympen area and with interbedded bioturbated mudstones and gravity-flow sandstones in a slope setting in central Jameson Land (Figs 4–9). A subsequent rise in relative sea level and regional drowning of the sandy shelf resulted in deposition of muds during the C. tenuiserra- tum and A. glosense Chrons. A marked fall in relative sea level is inferred in the A. serratum Chron, testified by the occurrence of shallow marine sandstones of the Aldinger Elv Member in the eastern part of Milne Land (Fürsich & Heinberg 1983). This was contemporaneous with the deposition of prominent basin-floor, gravity-flow sand- stones in Jameson Land that were remobilised and in- jected into encasing mudstones after burial. Regional deposition of muds characterised the lat- est Oxfordian (A. regulare Chron), signalling renewed drowning of the basin that culminated with a peak sea- level highstand (maximum flooding interval) in the A. eudoxus – A. autissiodorensis Chrons; maximum uranium gamma-ray levels are recorded in mudstones of this age in the Jameson land Basin (Figs 4, 5C, 7). Several units of mass-flow sandstones are intercalated in this succes- sion; they commonly succeed mudstone intervals that show upward-decreasing uranium gamma-ray values and a concomitant increasing proportion of thin sand string- ers, suggesting an inverse relationship between silici- clastic influx and organic (uranium) content. A reverse pattern – i.e. an upward-increasing gamma-ray trend – is commonly recorded above the massive mass-flow sand- stone units. These patterns are evident despite the fact that most of the sandstone units are interpreted as having been injected post burial; this suggests that much of the sand was displaced only locally during post-depositional remobilisation and injection. The lower Volgian P. elegans Chronozone records the onset of a pronounced regressive phase during which ex- tensive gravity-flow sand bodies in Jameson Land (now referred to the Sjællandselv Member) were deposited in front of the southward-prograding, sub-wave base, sandy clinothems of the Raukelv Formation (Fig 5D; Surlyk & Noe-Nygaard 2005). Coeval deposition in Milne Land is represented by offshore sandy–silty mudstones of the Krebsedal Member. The pronounced progradation of the lower–middle Volgian sandstones of the Raukelv Forma- tion records a marked, stepwise sea-level fall in the region that was partly contemporaneous with deposition of the shallow marine sandstones of the Pernaryggen Member (Kap Leslie Formation) and the lower part of the Hartz Fjeld Formation in Milne Land (Birkelund et al. 1984). Accumulation rates and depositional architecture The overall basin morphology involved a west-dipping half-graben in Jameson Land bounded by a roughly N— S-trending syn-rift fault in Hall Bredning against the eroded and flooded basement block in Milne Land. This configuration is interpreted to have exerted a major influ- ence on the depositional units and sediment geometries in the basin in Late Jurassic times (Figs 1, 2, 4, 5; Surlyk 1991). The biostratigraphic subdivision at chronozone level obtained from the core material and previous field studies can be integrated with the geological timescale of Gradstein et al. (2012). Conservative estimates of the post-compaction average sedimentation rates can thus be calculated for various basin settings and depositional units. It is acknowledged that individual calculated aver- age accumulation rates at chronozone/substage level are associated with considerable uncertainties and absolute values should be treated with caution. It is considered instructive, however, to consider the relative variation in these values, both stratigraphically and geographically, as an additional guide to the factors controlling sedimen- tary processes and architecture in a rift-influenced basin. A conservative estimate of the average sedimentation rates of the combined post-compaction mudstone and sandstone can be calculated for the C. tenuiserratum to A. autissiodorensis Chronozones in the Blokelv-1 core. This stratigraphic interval includes no recognisable hiati and is considered to represent a complete and continuous sedimentary record from 159.9 to 152.1 Ma (middle Ox- fordian to Kimmeridgian–Volgian boundary). This suc- cession has a thickness of about 190 m in the Blokelv-1 164164 TopTop TopTop 10 c m GØ06_607_MBJ_Blokelv BaseBase BaseBase MBJ_Artikel 2_Fig10_STS A B Fig. 10. Core photographs from the middle Oxfordian C. tenuiserratum Chronozone. A: Slope facies from the Lollandselv-2 borehole (26.75–22.75 m) comprising laminated and massive gravity-flow sandstones overlain by mid–dark grey biomottled silty and sandy mudstone. B: Basin-floor facies from the Blokelv-1 borehole (222.07– 218.25 m) consisting of massive, structureless gravity-flow sandstones overlain by laminated very dark grey to black mudstone. 165 core, yielding an overall average post-compaction accu- mulation rate of 2.5 cm/kyr of combined mudstone and sandstone deposition in the central part of the basin. The accumulation rate of the chronozones can also be estimated individually. The lower Oxfordian Q. mariae Chronozone represents highly condensed basinal mud sedimentation (0–10 m) in the eastern part of the Jame- son Land Basin (Poulsen 1985; Bruhn & Surlyk 2004), with an average sedimentation rate of <0.5 cm/kyr. The interval thickens to >50 m towards the west (Larsen & Surlyk 2003). The succeeding lower–middle Oxfordian interval (C. cordatum – C. tenuiserratum Chronozones) also shows a highly asymmetric depositional architecture. In the eastern part of Jameson Land, the mudstone-dominated basinal succession is 40 m thick with an average sedimen- tation rate of 2.5 cm/kyr. In contrast, in the northern part of Jameson Land (Olympen), the coeval succession comprises up to 150 m of sandstone-dominated shelf- slope deposits (Bruhn & Surlyk 2004). In the central and western part of the Jameson Land Basin, the slope to basinal succession may be up to 200 m thick, estimated from seismic data, representing an average sedimentation rate of up to 15 cm/kyr (Figs 2, 6). The wedge-shaped architecture of the lower–middle Oxfordian succession in Jameson Land, thickening westwards, is suggestive of a rift-related control on sedimentation in a west-dipping half-graben setting with the controlling fault being situ- ated in the offshore region of Hall Bredning (Figs 2, 4, 5). In Milne Land, in a separate structural domain (Fig. 2), this stratigraphic interval comprises a proximal to distal sedimentary package, 45–60 m thick. The lower part of the upper Oxfordian (A. glosense – A. serratum Chronozones) comprises a uniform mud- stone-dominated basinal succession, 40–48 m thick, in the central and eastern part of Jameson land represent- ing average sedimentation rates of 6–7 cm/kyr. In Milne Land, this interval shows a wedge-shaped sedimentary geometry, 5–80 m thick. The uniform geometry of the uppermost Oxfordian – Kimmeridgian of the Jameson Land Basin suggests that regional subsidence prevailed at this time. The Up- per Oxfordian (A. regulare – A. rosenkrantzi Chrono- zones) is dominated by a mudstone succession 15–40 m thick (thinnest at basin margins), representing average sedimentation of rates of 1–2 cm/kyr. The mudstone- dominated basinal deposits of the Lower and Upper Kimmeridgian show consistent thicknesses throughout the basin – 33–40 m and 80–110 m thick, respectively, giving average sedimentation rates of 1–1.5 cm/kyr and 3–4 cm/kyr. Fig. 11. Black mudstone and irregular, injected sandstone bodies (boundaries outlined) of the Katedralen Member (Hareelv Formation) in the Ugleelv valley. Vertical section illustrated is about 10 m thick. MBJ_Artikel 2_Fig11_STS 166166 The Jameson Land Basin experienced a remarkable shelf-edge evolution during the Late Jurassic, over a time span of c. 15 million years. In the Middle Oxfordian, the shelf edge was positioned in the Olympen area as defined by the deltaic sandstone shelf-edge deposits of the Zeus Member (Fig. 4; Larsen & Surlyk 2003; Bruhn & Sur- lyk 2004). By the Volgian, the shelf edge had prograded over 100 km towards the south where it is recorded by the Raukelv Formation (Fig. 5D; Surlyk & Noe-Nygaard 2005). The position of the shelf-edge during deposition of much of the Hareelv Formation is uncertain, however, because correlative shallow marine sediments have been removed by modern erosion. Previous palaeogeographic reconstructions avoided placing a sandy shelf-edge across Jameson Land in Late Oxfordian and Kimmeridgian times despite the common occurrences of mass-flow sandstones in the basinal areas (Figs 4, 7; Surlyk 2003). It is proposed here, however, that the presence of mass-flow sandstones in basinal settings testifies to the existence of a sand-rich shelf edge, either a degrading relict Middle Ox- fordian feature or a continuously active sand-prone shelf edge that was supplied with sand during the Kimmeridg- ian (Fig. 5C). The Volgian saw a marked southward shift of the shelf edge with deposition of the shallow marine sandstones of the Raukelv Formation and the correlative basin-floor sandstones of the Sjællandselv Member (Sur- lyk & Noe-Nygaard 2005). Conclusions The exposed Late Jurassic record in the Jameson Land Basin in East Greenland provides the main elements of a syn-rift shelf-to-basin transect. Deep-water basinal sediments consist of black, laminated, organic-rich mud- stones intercalated with gravity-flow sandstones that commonly experienced post-burial remobilisation and injection; the shelf and shelf edge are characterised by sandy deltaic deposits. Integration of these outcrop data with subsurface data derived from fully cored shallow boreholes yields a better understanding of the shelf-to- basin transition, particularly of the intermediate slope setting characterised by bioturbated sandy mudstones and gully-fill, gravity-flow sandstones. The 233.8 m thick Blokelv-1 core represents a con- tinuous middle Oxfordian to early Volgian stratigraphic record in a deep-water setting. This section provides the detailed stratigraphic control to relate the stratigraphic distribution of prominent sandstone units in the Jame- son Land Basin. Despite remobilisation and injection, the development of a robust biostratigraphy and log stratigraphy supports the correlation of amalgamated sand bodies in the basinal succession with known puls- es of shallow marine sand progradation in Milne Land and western and northern Jameson Land. Major phases of sandy shelf progradation are recorded in the Middle Oxfordian C. densiplicatum Chronozone, the Upper Oxfordian A. serratum Chronozone, and in the Volgian. The sand-prone shelf-edge in the Jameson Land Basin shows a basin axial migration of >100 km towards the south between the Middle Oxfordian and the Volgian, a time span of 15 million years. Inferred deepening and transgressive phases are recorded in the lower Oxfordian Q. mariae Chronozone, the middle–upper Oxfordian C. tenuiserratum – A. glosense Chronozones, the uppermost Oxfordian A. regulare Chronozone, and culminating in the Upper Kimmeridgian A. eudoxus – A. autissiodorensis Chronozones where spectral log data suggest peak basin deepening and expansion (a key ‘maximum flooding in- terval’). 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