Quaternary Carbonate and Evaporite Sedimentary Facies and Their Ancient Analogues

A Tribute to Douglas James Shearman
Herausgegeben von Kendall, Christopher G. St C.; Alsharhan, Abdulrahman

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is part of the International Associationof Sedimentologists (IAS) Special Publications.
The Special Publications from the IAS are a set of thematicvolumes edited by specialists on subjects of central interest tosedimentologists. Papers are reviewed and printed to the same highstandards as those published in the journal Sedimentologyand several of these volumes have become standard works ofreference. This volume commemorates the eclectic research of Douglas JamesShearman into evaporites, which was initiated by his studies of theprograding UAE coastal sabkhas or salt flats that incorporateevaporite minerals which displace and replace earlier carbonatesediments. His subsequent proselytization of the study of ancientevaporites in sedimentary sections all over the world led tofundamental advances in our understanding of arid zone carbonatesedimentology.
The papers presented here are based on presentations made in AbuDhabi, UAE 12-14th October 2004 and 7th -8th November 2006.They provide a retrospective from the 1960 s and 70 s of Holoceneevaporites and carbonates, recapturing Shearman s contribution byrevisiting the Holocene coastal evaporite and carbonate sedimentsof the Arabian/Persian Gulf from Abu Dhabi, Qatar, and Oman.
The first set of papers considers these sediments from theperspective of their coastal geomorphology, sedimentary characterand their geochemistry. Later papers examine the significance ofthese settings in the ancient geological section world-wide,including examples from the Mesozoic-Cenozoic of the MoroccanAtlantic margin and the Upper Jurassic Arab Formation of theArabian Gulf.

Produktdetails

• International Association Of Sedimentologists Series
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 277mm x 221mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1766g
• ISBN-13: 9781444339109
• ISBN-10: 1444339109
• Artikelnr.: 33239026

Autorenporträt

Christopher G. St. C. Kendall and Abdulrahman S. Alsharhan are the authors of Quaternary Carbonate and Evaporite Sedimentary Facies and Their Ancient Analogues: A Tribute to Douglas James Shearman, published by Wiley.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication Douglas James Shearman (1918-2003): Father of the sabkha model (Evans
G.). Introduction to Quaternary carbonate and evaporite sedimentary facies and their ancient analogues (Alsharhan
A.S. and Kendall
C.G.St.C.). Part 1 Recent carbonate and evaporate sediments. An historical review of the Quaternary sedimentology of the Gulf (Arabian/Persian Gulf) and its geological impact (Evans
G.). Holocene geomorphology and recent carbonate-evaporite sedimentation of the coastal region of Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates (Kendall
C.G.St.C. and Alsharhan
A.S.). The impact of sea-level change on ramp margin deposition: lessons from the Holocene sabkhas of Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates (Park
R.K.). Holocene evolution of Arabian coastal sabkhas: a re-evaluation based on stable-isotope analysis
forty years after Shearman's first view of the sabkha (Gunatilaka
A.). Interplay between Holocene sedimentation and diagenesis
and implications for hydrocarbon exploitation: return to the sabkha of Ras Umm Said
Qatar (Shinn
E.A.). Facies stacking patterns in a modern arid environment: a case study of the Abu Dhabi sabkha in the vicinity of Al Qanatir Island
United Arab Emirates (Strohmenger
C.J.
Shebl
H.
Al-Mansoori
A.
Al-Mehsin
K.
Al-Jeelani
O.
Al-Hosani
I.
Al-Shamry
A. and Al-Baker
S.). Coastal and continental sabkhas of Barr Al Hikman
Sultanate of Oman (Mettraux
M.
Homewood
P.W.
Kwarteng
A.Y. and Mattner
J.). Coastal Holocene carbonates of Abu Dhabi
UAE: depositional setting
sediment distribution
and role of cyanobacteria in micritization (Kendall
C.G.St.C. and Alsharhan
A.S.). Engineering properties of the carbonate sediments along the Abu Dhabi coast
United Arab Emirates (Epps
R.J.). Part 2 Geochemistry of recent carbonate and evaporite sediments. An historical odyssey: the origin of solutes in the coastal sabkha of Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates (Wood
W.W.). Geochemistry and nature of organic matterof the Pleistocene-Holocene carbonate evaporate sediments of Al-Khiran
southeastern Kuwait (Qabazard
S.
Abdullah
F.H. and Al-Temeemi
A.). Halite
sulphates
sabkhat and salinas of the coastal regions and Sabkha Matti of Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates (Kirkham
A.). Distribution of organic matter in the transgressive and regressive Holocene sabkha sediments of Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates (Kenig
F.). The role of bacterial sulphate reduction in carbonate replacement of vanished evaporites: examples from the Holocene
Jurassic and Neoarchaean (Wright
D. and Kirkham
A.). Part 3 Ancient carbonates and evaporites. Evaporitic source rocks: mesohaline responses to cycles of ''famine or feast'' in layered brines (Warren
J.K.). Coupled passive extension and compression on salt-based passive margins analyzed by physical models (Costa
E.
Cavozzi
C. and Doglioni
N.). Salt tectonics and structural styles of the western High Atlas and the intersecting Essaouira-Cap Tafelney segments of the Moroccan Atlantic margin (Hafid
M.
Bally
A.W.
Ait Salem
A and Toto
E.). Carbonates and evaporites of the Upper Jurassic Arab Formation
Abu Dhabi: a petroleum exploration challenge (Al Suwaidi
A.S.
El Hami
M.
Hagiwara
H.
Aziz
S.K. and Al Habshi
A.R.). Selenite facies in marine evaporites: a review (Orti
F.). Index.