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Accepted Manuscript The biostratigraphic record of Cretaceous to Paleogene tectono-eustatic relative sealevel change in Jamaica David P. Gold, James P.G. Fenton, Manuel Casas-Gallego, Vibor Novak, Irene Pérez-Rodríguez, Claudia Cetean, Richard Price, Nicole Nembhard, Herona Thompson PII:

S0895-9811(18)30165-2

DOI:

10.1016/j.jsames.2018.06.011

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SAMES 1951

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Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Received Date: 18 April 2018 Revised Date:

13 June 2018

Accepted Date: 14 June 2018

Please cite this article as: Gold, D.P., Fenton, J.P.G., Casas-Gallego, M., Novak, V., Pérez-Rodríguez, I., Cetean, C., Price, R., Nembhard, N., Thompson, H., The biostratigraphic record of Cretaceous to Paleogene tectono-eustatic relative sea-level change in Jamaica, Journal of South American Earth Sciences (2018), doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2018.06.011. This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.

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The biostratigraphic record of Cretaceous to Paleogene tectono-eustatic relative

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sea-level change in Jamaica

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David P. Gold a, * James P. G. Fentona, Manuel Casas-Gallegoa, Vibor Novaka, Irene Pérez-Rodrígueza,

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Claudia Ceteana, Richard Pricea, Nicole Nembhardb, Herona Thompsonb

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United Kingdom. Tel: +44 1492 581111 E-Mail address: [email protected] (David Gold)

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ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT ABSTRACT

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The island of Jamaica forms the northern extent of the Nicaraguan Rise, an elongate linear tectonic

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feature stretching as far as Honduras and Nicaragua to the south. Uplift and subaerial exposure of

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Jamaica during the Neogene has made the island rare within the Caribbean region, as it is the only area

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where rocks of the Nicaraguan Rise are exposed on land. Biostratigraphic dating and

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palaeoenvironmental interpretations using larger benthic foraminifera, supplemented by planktonic

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foraminifera, nannopalaeontology and palynology of outcrop, well and corehole samples has enabled

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the creation of a regional relative sea-level curve through identification of several depositional

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sequences. This study recognises ten unconformity-bounded transgressive-regressive sequences which

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record a complete cycle of relative sea-level rise and fall. Sequences are recognised in the Early to

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‘Middle’ Cretaceous (EKTR1), Coniacian-Santonian (STR1), Campanian (CTR1), Maastrichtian

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(MTR1-2), Paleocene-Early Eocene (PETR1), Eocene (YTR1-3) and Late Eocene-Oligocene (WTR1).

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These transgressive-regressive cycles represent second to fourth order sequences, although most tie

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with globally recognised third order sequences. Comparisons of the Jamaican relative sea-level curve

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with other published global mean sea-level curves show that local tectonics exerts a strong control on

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the deposition of sedimentary sequences in Jamaica. Large unconformities (duration >1 Ma) are

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related to significant regional tectonic events, with minor overprint of a global eustatic signal, while

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smaller unconformities (duration 1 Ma), quantified through biostratigraphic analyses, are related to

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significant regional tectonic events, with minor overprint of a global eustatic signal, while smaller

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unconformities (duration