The lower shoreface: Morphodynamics and sediment connectivity with the upper shoreface and beach

EJ Anthony, T Aagaard - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The lower shoreface provides the connection between the continental shelf and the
shoreline via its onshore transition called the upper shoreface. Lower shorefaces are …

Marine carbonate factories: review and update

JJG Reijmer - Sedimentology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Diagenetic overprint on porosity and permeability of a combined conventional-unconventional reservoir: Insights from the Eocene pelagic limestones, Gulf of …

AE Radwan, A Husinec, B Benjumea… - Marine and petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Lower to Middle Eocene organic-rich deep-water limestones of the∼ 335-m-thick
(1100 ft) Radwany (Thebes-equivalent) Formation represent a source rock and a potential …

[HTML][HTML] Methane-derived authigenic carbonates–A case for a globally relevant marine carbonate factory

SA Akam, ED Swanner, H Yao, WL Hong… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Precipitation of methane-derived authigenic carbonates (MDAC) is an integral part of marine
methane production and consumption, but MDAC's relative significance to the global marine …

Snowballs in Africa: sectioning a long-lived Neoproterozoic carbonate platform and its bathyal foreslope (NW Namibia)

PF Hoffman, GP Halverson, DP Schrag, JA Higgins… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Otavi Group is a 1.5–3.5-km-thick epicontinental marine carbonate succession of
Neoproterozoic age, exposed in an 800-km-long Ediacaran− Cambrian fold belt that rims …

Availability and type of energy regulate the global distribution of neritic carbonates

OM Bialik, G Coletti, L Mariani, L Commissario… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The study of carbonate rocks is primarily reliant on microfacies analysis, which is strongly
based on the comparison with modern allochem assemblages. Despite the existence of …

Global distribution of modern shallow-water marine carbonate factories: a spatial model based on environmental parameters

M Laugié, J Michel, A Pohl, E Poli, J Borgomano - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Prediction of carbonate distributions at a global scale through geological time represents a
challenging scientific issue, which is critical for carbonate reservoir studies and the …

Two-phased collapse of the shallow-water carbonate factory during the late Pliensbachian–Toarcian driven by changing climate and enhanced continental …

FN Krencker, A Fantasia, J Danisch, R Martindale… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The end Pliensbachian–Toarcian is characterized by several carbon-cycle
perturbations and faunal turnovers (eg, ammonites and foraminifera), which are most likely …

Stratigraphic architecture and depositional–diagenetic evolution of Oligocene–Miocene carbonate–evaporite platform in the southern margin of the Neo-Tethys Ocean …

Z Mohammadi, H Mehrabi, S Gharechelou… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Oligocene–Miocene (OM) depositional sequences (Asmari Formation) are
marked by remarkable changes in thickness, lithology, depositional facies characteristics …

Inferring time averaging and hiatus durations in the stratigraphic record of high‐frequency depositional sequences

A Tomašových, I Gallmetzer, A Haselmair… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A sequence stratigraphic framework predicts that time averaging and hiatus durations will be
long at times of fastest sea‐level rise. This prediction does not necessarily apply to …