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Biogenic Sedimentary Rocks in a Cold, Cenozoic Ocean - Neritic Southern Australia (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Biogenic Sedimentary Rocks in a Cold, Cenozoic Ocean - Neritic Southern Australia (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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This book documents and interprets the onshore Cenozoic temperate
carbonate depositional system along the southern margin of
Australia. These strata, deposited in four separate basins,
together with the extensive modern marine system offshore, comprise
the largest such cool-water carbonate system on the globe. The
approach is classic and comparative but the information is a
synthesis of recent research and new information. A brief section
of introduction outlines the setting, modern comparative
sedimentology offshore, and structure of the Cenozoic onshore. The
core of the book is a detailed analysis and illustration of the
four Eocene to Pleistocene successions. Deposits range from
temperate carbonates, to biosiliceous spiculites, to marginal
marine siliciclastics. Each unit is interpreted, as much as
possible, based on our understanding of the modern offshore
depositional system. A subsequent part concentrates on diagenesis
both before and after the late Miocene uplift. It turns out that
alteration in the two packages is entirely different. The preceding
attributes of each succession are then interpreted on the basis of
controlling factors such as tectonics, oceanography, climate, and
glaciation of nearby Antarctica. This research has revealed new
implications for the interpretation of specific attributes of
cool-water carbonate sedimentology that could only be discovered
from the rock record. Insights concerning cyclicity, reef mounds,
biosiliceous deposition, and trophic resources are detailed in the
next section. The concluding part focuses on global comparisons,
especially the Mediterranean and New Zealand.
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