Palynological Analysis of Amber-Bearing Clay from the Lower Cretaceous of Central Lebanon
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This paper is a contribution to the scientific project “The Study of the Fossil Insects in Lebanon and their Outcrops: Geology of the Outcrops – Historical and Biodiversity Evolution” and to the team project : "Biodiversity: Origin, Structure, Evolution and Geology" financed by the Lebanese University to the first author (DA).

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    An amber-bearing lignitic layer of sandy clay from the Lower Cretaceous of Central Lebanon (Mderej-Hammana) yielded a well-preserved, moderately variegated palynoflora, which origin is mixed between land plants and marine microflora. Its detailed analysis led to fulfill its inventory, to propose a paleoenvironmental reconstruction, and to draw the paleoclimate which prevailed over the region: an estuarian area under a rather humid, temperate climate; a variety of ferns grew near the shore-side and in the inward land. A tiny piece of amber containing angiospermous pollen grains of stratigraphical interest allows a precise dating. The marine microflora, poorly diversified, includes chitinous foraminifer linings and dinoflagellate cysts, among which Early Aptian guide taxa are present; their occurrence slightly narrows the stratigraphical range indicated by some palynological taxa which are related to land plants.

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Dany AZAR, Jean DEJAX, Edwige MASURE.2011. Palynological Analysis of Amber-Bearing Clay from the Lower Cretaceous of Central Lebanon[J]. Acta Geologica Sinica(),85(4):942-949

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  • Received:January 01,2011
  • Revised:March 30,2011
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