Rates of vadose diagenesis in quaternary dune and shallow marine calcarenites, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia

Reeckman, S.Anne; Gill, Edmund D.

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“…Extensive Pleistodene calcarenites and aeolianites occur along most of the Victorian coastline, but precise ages have yet to be determined for them (Reeckmann and Gill 1981;Warren 1983). By far the most extensive marine sediments occur in the Gippsland Lakes area, where Bird (1978Bird ( , 1984 has defined a Holocene Outer Barrier and a larger Inner Barrier, most likely of Last Interglacial age.…”

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Thermoluminescenge and Uranium‐Thorium chronologies of pleistocene coastal landforms of the Illawarra region, New South Wales

Bryant

Young

Price

et al. 1990

Australian Geographer

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Thermoluminescenge and Uranium‐Thorium chronologies of pleistocene coastal landforms of the Illawarra region, New South Wales

Bryant

Young

Price

et al. 1990

Australian Geographer

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“…Between Cape Nelson and Warrnambool, associated shore platforms and beach deposits indicate a sea-level up to 7.5 m APSL (Gill, 1988;Kenley, 1988;Orth, 1988). Shells from the Port Fairy Calcarenite were dated by U-Series at 110 to 125 ka (Reeckmann and Gill, 1981). The fauna includes warmer-water molluscs (Anadara trapezia, Ninella torquata) and foraminifera.…”

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Pleistocene coastal stratigraphy, sea‐level highstands and neotectonism of the southern Australian passive continental margin—a review

Murray-Wallace

2002

J Quaternary Science

164

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Murray-Wallace, C. V. 2002. Pleistocene coastal stratigraphy, sea-level highstands and neotectonism of the southern Australian passive continental margin-a review.ABSTRACT: Located in a tectonically stable, intraplate setting and in the far field of former ice sheets, the southern Australian passive continental margin represents a globally important region for quantifying sea level during Pleistocene highstands. The stratigraphical record of the southern Australian margin is dominated by geographically extensive coastal barrier, estuarine and peritidal landforms of bioclastic, temperate carbonate affinity, a function of regional aridity. Siliciclastic successions dominate the eastern Australian coastline. Despite the generally high level of tectonic stability, regional contrasts are evident in the elevation of Pleistocene shoreline deposits that largely relate to pre-Quaternary geotectonic setting. The most complete record of Pleistocene highstand deposits occurs in the Murray Basin-Coorong Coastal Plain region, and indicates that interglacial sea-level highstands, for at least the past 11 interglacials, did not deviate by more than 6 m from present sea-level. The Pleistocene marginal marine record of southern Australia is dominantly represented by coastal successions deposited during marine oxygen isotope stages 5e and 7, equating with relative sea-level maxima of 2-6 m and greater than 1 m above present sea-level (APSL) respectively. Intertidal facies of Late Pleistocene interstadial successions rarely occur above present sea level. The most reliable record of glacio-eustatic (ice equivalent) sea level is registered on coastlines developed on stable Precambrian cratons such as the Gawler Craton (Eyre Peninsula), where a consistent elevation of 2 m APSL is registered for over 500 km for the last interglacial shoreline (125 ka).

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“…The idea of progressive and ordered diagenetic change in the freshwater vadose environment was first formulated in the mid-1960s (Friedman 1964) and subsequently developed and applied through the work of Land et al (1967) in Bermuda, Gavish & Friedman (1969) in Israel, Ristvet (1972) in Bermuda, and Reeckmann & Gill (1981) in Australia. Despite the fact that much of the research dates back over 20 years, the models remain generally accepted today, as exemplified by Morse & Mackenzie (1990) who state that there is 'remarkable similarity between the trends in diagenetic texture, mineralogy and geochemistry with progressive geologic age exhibited by Bermudan biosparites and those of the carbonate sediments of the Mediterranean coast of Israel'.…”

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“…The first concerns cement morphologies in various combinations of vadose/phreatic and freshwater/marine environments (see McLaren 1993), and the second, the subject of this paper, deals with the progression of diagenetic changes over time. The call for a model relating diagenetic changes to climate (Reeckmann & Gill 1981) has so far gone unheeded.…”

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Progressive vadose diagenesis in late Quaternary aeolianite deposits?

Gardner

McLaren

1993

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Since the mid-1960s a number of models (as exemplified by Gavish & Friedman (1969) and Land et al. (1967)) have been developed which suggest that a progressive sequence of morphological, mineralogical and chemical changes occurs during carbonate diagenesis in the vadose zone. The models raise the possibility that the degree of cementation and diagenetic alteration can be used as a guide to interpreting the relative, and even the absolute, age of deposits. A study of the early vadose diagenesis of a wide range of late Quaternary age aeolianites from Oman, South India, the Bahamas, Tunisia and Mallorca has been undertaken to assess the wider applicability of the models. The results presented in this paper indicate that the rigid application of such models to areas outside those for which they have been developed is inappropriate. In the aeolianites analysed, spatial and temporal heterogeneity is the key characteristic. All tend towards an end point of low-Mg calcite allochems and meniscus, rim and pore-filling cement types but at different rates in different places, both locally and regionally, and via several different diagenetic routes.

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Rates of vadose diagenesis in quaternary dune and shallow marine calcarenites, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia

Cited by 30 publications

References 11 publications

Thermoluminescenge and Uranium‐Thorium chronologies of pleistocene coastal landforms of the Illawarra region, New South Wales

Thermoluminescenge and Uranium‐Thorium chronologies of pleistocene coastal landforms of the Illawarra region, New South Wales

Pleistocene coastal stratigraphy, sea‐level highstands and neotectonism of the southern Australian passive continental margin—a review

Progressive vadose diagenesis in late Quaternary aeolianite deposits?

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