Marine organisms have occupied hard substrates since the Archaean. Shells, rocks, wood
and sedimentary hardgrounds offer relatively stable habitats compared to unconsolidated …

The Ordovician Period (~ 485-444 Ma) was an interval of major, causally interconnected 15
changes in the Earth's biotic, climatic, and environmental systems. The diversity of marine …

Authoritative, accessible, and updated introduction to sedimentary rocks for undergraduate
students Sedimentary Petrology provides readers with a concise account of sedimentary …

The 2nd Edition of Carbonate Reservoirs aims to educate graduate students and industry
professionals on the complexities of porosity evolution in carbonate reservoirs. In the …

Reefs are an extraordinary natural phenomenon. Visible from outer space, coral reefs are
the largest biologically constructed features known; in close proximity their spectacular …

ABSTRACT Microporosity occurs throughout Arab Formation carbonates of Saudi Arabia,
and affects the log response, fluid flow properties and ultimate recovery of hydrocarbons in …

This paper discusses burial diagenesis and especially a burial dissolution phase and its
effects on micrite microtexture in reservoirs in the Middle East. Three microporous reservoirs …

We evaluate experimentally the effect of carbonate saturation state at the sediment‐water
interface (SWI) on survivorship of various size classes of the juvenile bivalve Mercenaria …

In the Silurian carbonate platform succession of Gotland, Sweden, interreef limestone and
marl sequences have shallow-marine shelly assemblages dominated by brachiopods …

The term “condensation” has been used in sedimentological research for 180 years and
ever since the last 80 years, its interpretation has become increasingly diverse and, to a …