Faunal relationship to grain-size, mineralogy and geochemistry in recent temperate shelf carbonates, western Tasmania, Australia

Facies partitioning and sequence stratigraphy of cool-water, mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments (Upper Miocene Guadalquivir Domain, southern Spain)

“…Examples of mixed, non-tropical carbonate siliciclastics are described from the British Isles (Wilson 1988;Scoffin 1988;Light and Wilson 1998), West Canada (Carey et al 1995), the Gulf of California (Foster et al 1997;Meldahl et al 1997), South Australia (James et al 1992Ferland and Roy 1997), Tasmania (Rao and Amini 1995), and New Zealand (Nelson et al 1988;Gillespie and Nelson 1997). In these papers it is shown that the facies composition is mainly controlled by water depth, morphology and topography of the basin, as well as the hydraulic regime.…”

“…In these papers it is shown that the facies composition is mainly controlled by water depth, morphology and topography of the basin, as well as the hydraulic regime. On open, mixed siliciclastic-carbonate shelves, high amounts of terrigenous material occur in two facies belts James et al 1992;Rao and Amini 1995;Ferland and Roy 1997;Gillespie and Nelson 1997;James et al 1997;Light and Wilson 1998). A shallow belt can be found in nearshore areas down to a water depth of approximately 40 m, and an outer belt appears in deeper slope and lower slope zones.…”

Depositional environment, sequence stratigraphy and geochemistry of Lower Cretaceous carbonates (Fahliyan Formation), south-west Iran

“…Modern tropical aragonite carbonates have low Mn and high Sr/Na ratio from 3 to $5, in contrast to modern temperate calcite, which have high Mn and low Sr/Na ratios, $1 (Adabi and Rao, 1991;Rao, 1991Rao, , 1996Rao and Amini, 1995;Winefield et al, 1996;Adabi and AsadiMehmandosti, 2008). Sr/Na ratio in limestone of the Fahliyan Formation ranges from $1 to 4 (average 2.5) are similar to the Upper Cretaceous Ilam limestone (Adabi and Asadi-Mehmandosti, 2008) and Recent tropical aragonite (Milliman, 1974;Winefield et al, 1996) (Fig.…”

Microfacies and geochemistry of the Ilam Formation in the Tang-E Rashid area, Izeh, S.W. Iran

“…8C). (Rao, 1990(Rao, , 1991, recent tropical shallow-marine aragonite (Milliman, 1974), and recent temperate bulk carbonate (Rao and Adabi, 1992;Rao and Jayawardane, 1994;Rao and Amini, 1995). Note that all data falls within the aragonitic fields due to similar mineralogy.…”