Sedimentological, geochemical, and chronological analyses were carried out on 19 carbonate rock samples collected from the submarine slope to the west of Minamitorishima (Marcus Island) located near the western margin of the Pacific Plate.Four groups of carbonate rocks were distinguished: mollusk-rich carbonates, coral-rich carbonates, foraminiferal-nannofossil packstone, and mudstone/wackestone. The mollusk-rich carbonates are characterized by dominance of bivalve (including rudist) and gastropod shells. Skeletal grains are extensively bioeroded, some with thick micrite envelopes. Sr isotope ratios ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr) and Mesorbitolina ex gr. texana (large benthic foraminifer) indicate that the shallow-water carbonates were deposited in the late Aptianearly Albian (~122-111 Ma). The coral-rich carbonates are characterized by abundant scleractinian corals and nongeniculate coralline algae associated with encrusting acervulinid foraminifers. The biotic composition indicates that the carbonates were deposited in a coral reef setting during the Oligocene-Miocene. Geochemical data show that the coral-rich carbonate were dolomitized at 6.8-9.5 Ma (Tortonian-Messinian) and that normal seawater is the likely parent fluid. The foraminiferal-nannofossil packstone is semi-consolidated foraminiferal-nannofossil ooze, deposited in the Pleistocene (0.99-0.45 Ma). The mudstone/wackestone is marked by absence of macrofossils and is phosphatized: its age and depositional environment could not be assessed. The Cretaceous mollusk-rich carbonates are distributed to shallower depths than expected following standard seafloor subsidence, clearly showing that Minamitorishima has undergone not continuous thermal subsidence but significant episodic uplifts probably by Eocene volcanism.