Rift-related environmental change in the northern Tethys based on Nd and Sr isotopes in the Middle and Upper Jurassic carbonates of the Pieniny Klippen Belt

Abstract

The main goal of this study was to verify the age of the Wapiennik Breccia Member (Birkenmajer 1977) from the Pieniny Klippen Belt, so far described as Callovian-Oxfordian on base on its stratigraphical position (Birkenmajer 1977). The age of the breccia in the Wapiennik quarry in Szaflary, near Nowy Targ (Poland), has been constrained by means of microfacies and foraminifera analyses. The breccia includes two subsets of conglomerates, differing in clasts composition, but incorporated into the red, limestone matrix. The age of the matrix could be confined to the Middle Albian-the lowermost Cenomanian time, thus questioning Jurassic age of the breccia.