The carbonate factories model, as defined at the beginning of the century, provides a
subdivision of marine carbonate sediment production‐systems based on the style of …

This special issue of Coral Reefs stems from a thematic session held at the European
Meeting of the International Society for Reef Studies held in Cambridge in September 2002 …

This study focuses on the presence of MPs in the sediment beds around coral reefs of
MPNPs in Baja California Sur, México. Based on seasonal sampling results, comparison of …

Chattian mixed carbonate-siliciclastic deposits from two palaeogeographic units of Southern
Alps, the Lessini Shelf and Venetian foreland basin of northeast Italy, are studied with …

Benthic foraminiferal assemblages belonging to a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic shelf
succession of the Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) in the Prebetic, southern Spain, were …

Water temperature has received considerable attention as steering factor for the genesis of
different types of marine carbonate sediments. However, parameters other than temperature …

Few places in the world can claim such a diversity of species as the Gulf of California (Sea of
Cortez), with its 6,000 recorded animal species estimated to be half the number actually …

The soft bottom of the Mediterranean continental shelf is characterized by a heterozoan
skeletal assemblage (sensu [James, NP, 1997. The cool-water carbonate depositional …

Free-living forms of crustose coralline algae (rhodoliths) accumulate on shallow-water
marine shelves in many regions worldwide. They form their own benthic habitats termed …

Abstract Upper Miocene (Tortonian-Messinian) to Lower Pliocene (Zanclean) temperate
bioclastic limestones occur in the Betic intermontane basins mixed with diverse proportions …