Dynamic climate-driven controls on the deposition of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in the Cleveland Basin, Yorkshire, UK

Atar, Elizabeth; März, Christian; Aplin, Andrew C.; Dellwig, Olaf; Herringshaw, Liam G.; Lamoureux-Var, Violaine; Leng, Melanie J.; Schnetger, Bernhard; Wagner, Thomas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1581-2019

Articles | Volume 15, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1581-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1581-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 4

Research article

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13 Aug 2019

Research article |

| 13 Aug 2019

Dynamic climate-driven controls on the deposition of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in the Cleveland Basin, Yorkshire, UK

Elizabeth Atar, Christian März, Andrew C. Aplin, Olaf Dellwig, Liam G. Herringshaw, Violaine Lamoureux-Var, Melanie J. Leng, Bernhard Schnetger, and Thomas Wagner

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AC1: 'Data availability', Elizabeth Atar, 31 Jan 2019
RC1: 'Review of "Dynamic climate-driven controls on the deposition of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in the Cleveland Basin, Yorkshire, UK"', Thomas Algeo, 07 Feb 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to RC1', Elizabeth Atar, 05 May 2019
SC1: 'Review of Atar et al. Dynamic climate-driven controls on the deposition of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in the Cleveland Basin, Yorkshire, UK, Climate of the Past', Joseph Emmings, 25 Mar 2019
- AC3: 'Reply to SC1', Elizabeth Atar, 05 May 2019
RC2: 'Review', Jennifer McKay, 15 May 2019
- AC4: 'Reply to RC2', Elizabeth Atar, 17 May 2019

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (07 Jun 2019) by Arne Winguth

AR by Elizabeth Atar on behalf of the Authors (17 Jun 2019)

ED: Publish as is (06 Jul 2019) by Arne Winguth

AR by Elizabeth Atar on behalf of the Authors (15 Jul 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

We present a geochemical and petrographic study of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation from the Cleveland Basin (Yorkshire, UK). Our results indicate that deposition during this interval was very dynamic and oscillated between three distinct modes of sedimentation. In line with recent modelling results, we propose that these highly dynamic conditions were driven by changes in climate, which affected continental weathering, enhanced primary productivity, and led to organic carbon enrichment.