Perspectives in Carbonate Geology A Tribute to the Career of Robert Nathan Ginsburg

by Swart, Peter K.; Eberli, Gregor P.; McKenzie, Judith A.

• ISBN13: 9781405193801
• ISBN10: 1405193808
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This special publication Perspectives in Carbonate Geology is a collection of papers most of which were presented at a symposium to honor the 80th birthday of Bob Ginsburg at the meeting of Geological Society of America in Salt Lake City in 2005. The majority of the papers in this publication are connected with the study of modern carbonate sediments. Bob Ginsburg pioneered the concept of comparative sedimentology - that is using the modern to compare to and relate to and understand the ancient. These studies are concerned with Bob's areas of passion: coral reefs and sea-level; submarine cementation and formation of beach rock; surface sediments on Great Bahama Bank and other platforms; origin of ooids; coastal sediments; formation of stromatolites; impact of storms on sediments; and the formation of dolomite. The remainder of the papers apply the study of modern environments and sedimentary processes to ancient sediments.Recent other publications of the International Association of SedimentologistsSPECIAL PUBLICATIONS40 Analogue and Numerical Modelling of Sedimentary Systems From Understanding to Prediction Edited by P. de Boer, G. Postma, K. van der Zwan, P. Burgess and P. Kukla 2008, 336 pages, 172 illustrations39 Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products Edited by M.J. Hambrey, P. Christoffersen, N.F. Glasser and B. Hubbard 2007, 416 pages, 181 illustrations38 Sedimentary Processes, Environments and Basins A Tribute to Peter Friend Edited by G. Nichols, E. Williams and C. Paola 2007, 648 pages, 329 illustrations37 Continental Margin Sedimentation From Sediment Transport to Sequence Stratigraphy Edited by C.A. Nittrouer, J.A. Austin, M.E. Field, J.H. Kravitz, J.P.M. Syvitski and P.L. Wiberg 2007, 549 pages, 178 illustrations36 Braided Rivers Process, Deposits, Ecology and Management Edited by G.H. Sambrook Smith, J.L. Best, C.S. Bristow and G.E. Petts 2006, 390 pages, 197 illustrations35 Fluvial Sedimentology VII Edited by M.D. Blum, S.B. Marriott and S.F. Leclair 2005, 589 pages, 319 illustrationsREPRINT SERIES4 Sandstone Diagenesis: Recent and Ancient Edited by S.D. Burley and R.H. Worden 2003, 648 pages, 223 illustrationsPlease see in

Author Biography

Peter K. Swart is the author of Perspectives in Carbonate Geology: A Tribute to the Career of Robert Nathan Ginsburg, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Depth and species-related patterns of Holocene reef accretion in the Caribbean and western Atlantic: a critical assessment of existing models

The mystique of beachrock

A reevaluation of facies on Great Bahama Bank I: new facies maps of western Great Bahama Bank

A reevaluation of facies on Great Bahama Bank II: variations in the + 13C, + 18O and mineralogy of surface sediments

Stable isotopes of carbon and oxygen in modern sediments of carbonate platforms, barrier reefs, atolls and ramps: patterns and implications

A tale of two storms: an integrated field, remote sensing, and modelling study examining the impact of hurricanes Frances and Jeanne on carbonate systems, Bahamas

Rapid recycling and deposition of organic-rich carbonates within the coastal complex of southwest Florida

The paradoxical occurrence of oolitic limestone on the eastern islands of Great Bahama Bank: where do the ooids come from?

Calcareous epiphyte production in cool-water carbonate depositional environments, southern Australia

Microbes versus metazoans as dominant reef builders: insights from modern marine environments in Exuma Cays, Bahamas

Microbial dolomite precipitation under aerobic conditions: results from Brejo do Espinho Lagoon (Brazil) and culture experiments

Karst subbasins and their relationship to cross-Florida Platform transport of Tertiary siliciclastics

Controls on facies mosaics of carbonate platforms: a case study from the Oxfordian of the Swiss Jura

On the allocyclic interpretation of the 'Latemar Cycles' (Middle Triassic, the Dolomites, Italy) and implications for high-frequency cyclostratigraphic forcing

Phylloid algal mounds in the Paradox Basin, southwestern USA: an alternative to the in situ constructional growth model?

The Cincinnati Arch: a stationary peripheral bulge during the Late Ordovician

Reinterpreting a Proterozoic enigma: Conophyton - Jacutophyton stromatolite reefs of the Mesoproterozoic Atar Group, Mauritania

Layering - What does it mean?

Falling-stage systems tracts in tropical carbonate rocks

Early load-induced fracturing in a prograding carbonate margin

Markov models for linking environments and facies in space and time

Evaluating validity and reliability in high-resolution stratigraphic analysis

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