Carbonate Depositional Systems: Assessing Dimensions and Controlling Parameters
The Bahamas, Belize and the Persian/Arabian Gulf
Page
%P
-
Article
Significance of microbial binding in the formation and stabilization of a silurian carbonate forereef slope
The effect of microbial binding for the stabilization of steep carbonate slopes is well documented in Cenozoic examples but its significance and relationship with abiotic marine cements in Paleozoic reef syste...
-
Article
Open AccessThe microbial carbonate factory of Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay, Western Australia
Microbialites and peloids are commonly associated throughout the geologic record. Proterozoic carbonate megafacies are composed predominantly of micritic and peloidal limestones often interbedded with stromato...
-
Article
Open AccessDiscovery of the deep-sea NEOM Brine Pools in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea
Deep-sea brine pools represent hypersaline environments famed for their extremophile microbes. With anoxia entirely excluding bioturbating megafauna, brine pools are also conducive to the pristine preservation...
-
Article
Open AccessCorrection to: A two million year record of low-latitude aridity linked to continental weathering from the Maldives
In the original version of this article (Kunkelova et al. 2018), published on 18 December 2018, there was 1 error in the author name of Dr. Yu.
-
Article
Open AccessA two million year record of low-latitude aridity linked to continental weathering from the Maldives
Indian-Asian monsoon has oscillated between warm/wet interglacial periods and cool/dry glacial periods with periodicities closely linked to variations in Earth’s orbital parameters. However, processes that con...
-
Article
Open AccessTsunamis caused by submarine slope failures along western Great Bahama Bank
Submarine slope failures are a likely cause for tsunami generation along the East Coast of the United States. Among potential source areas for such tsunamis are submarine landslides and margin collapses of Bah...
-
Article
Open AccessThe abrupt onset of the modern South Asian Monsoon winds
The South Asian Monson (SAM) is one of the most intense climatic elements yet its initiation and variations are not well established. Dating the deposits of SAM wind-driven currents in IODP cores from the Mald...
-
Chapter
Deep Acoustic Applications
Because cold-water coral ecosystems exist at relatively inaccessible depths of 500–1,000 m, only a limited number of accurate maps have been produced for this resource. This chapter describes a combined acoust...
-
Book
-
Chapter
Parameters Controlling Modern Carbonate Depositional Environments: Approach
First research on carbonate depositional environments dates back to the middle of the nineteenth century, when Nelson (1853) described the general morphology of the Bahamas and realized the origin of calcareou...
-
Chapter
Controlling Parameters on Facies Geometries of the Bahamas, an Isolated Carbonate Platform Environment
The Bahamas are among the most extensively studied carbonate regions in the world, and a number of phenomena typical of calcareous environments have been first observed in the Bahamas. Early geological researc...
-
Chapter
Belize: A Modern Example of a Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Shelf
The Belize shelf is located on the eastern side of the Yucatan Peninsula (Fig. 3.1). It extends along approximately 300 km in a north-south direction and 10–40 km in an east-west direction. The Belize shelf lagoo...
-
Chapter
Summary: The Depositional Systems of the Bahamas, Belize Lagoon and The Gulf Compared
It is well-known that the present might not be a straight-forward key to the past, especially where biological evolution is involved, but also because of large-scale fluctuations in atmospheric CO2 levels, and ot...
-
Article
Bahamian carbonate platform development in response to sea-level changes and the closure of the Isthmus of Panama
In this paper we show that the development of the sediment architecture at the leeward toe-of-slope of Great Bahama Bank (Ocean Drilling Project Leg 166, Bahama Transect) during the last 6 Ma is not only a res...
-
Chapter
Controls on Sonic Velocity in Carbonates
Compressional and shear-wave velocities (V p and V s ) of 210 minicores of carbonates from different areas an...
-
Article
Controls on sonic velocity in carbonates
Compressional and shear-wave velocities (V p andV s) of 210 minicores of carbonates from different areas and ages were measured under variable confining and pore-fluid pressures. The lithologies of the samples ra...
