Understanding biomineralization in the fossil record

A Pérez-Huerta, I Coronado, TA Hegna - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Biomineralization–the formation of minerals by organisms–is a key aspect in the
understanding of the fossil record. Knowing how biominerals form and their properties is …

Missing molluscs as evidence of large-scale, early skeletal aragonite dissolution in a Silurian sea

L Cherns, VP Wright - Geology, 2000 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In the Silurian carbonate platform succession of Gotland, Sweden, interreef limestone and
marl sequences have shallow-marine shelly assemblages dominated by brachiopods …

Reactive transport modeling of early burial dolomitization of carbonate platforms by geothermal convection

FF Whitaker, Y Xiao - AAPG bulletin, 2010 - archives.datapages.com
Reactive transport models (RTMs) permit quantitative investigation of diagenesis and its
effects on reservoir quality. The RTM TOUGHREACT is used to investigate diagenesis in an …

Diagenesis of mollusc aragonite and the role of fluid reservoirs

C Pederson, V Mavromatis, M Dietzel… - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Biogenic carbonate minerals are widely used as archives in paleoenvironmental research,
providing substantial information for past depositional and diagenetic regimes. However …

Calcite precipitation and dissolution of biogenic aragonite in shallow Ordovician calcite seas

TJ Palmer, MA Wilson - Lethaia, 2004 - idunn.no
The Ordovician was a time of extensive and pervasive low‐magnesium calcite (LMC)
precipitation on shallow marine sea floors. The evidence comes from field study (extensive …

Early overpressuring in organic-rich shales during burial: evidence from fibrous calcite veins in the Lower Jurassic Shales-with-Beef Member in the Wessex Basin, UK

Q Meng, J Hooker, J Cartwright - Journal of the Geological Society, 2017 - lyellcollection.org
Field, petrographic and geochemical analysis of fibrous calcite veins in the Lower Jurassic
Shales-with-Beef Member in the Wessex Basin was conducted to investigate the formation …

Characterization and origin of permeability–porosity heterogeneity in shallow-marine carbonates: From core scale to 3D reservoir dimension (Middle Jurassic, Paris …

B Brigaud, B Vincent, C Durlet, JF Deconinck… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2014 - Elsevier
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), stable isotope geochemistry of micro-sampled cores,
NMR well-logs and 3D modeling are used to investigate the carbonate permeability-porosity …

Micro X‐ray fluorescence (μ XRF) line scanning on Cretaceous rudist bivalves: A new method for reproducible trace element profiles in bivalve calcite

NJ de Winter, P Claeys - Sedimentology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The reconstruction of palaeoclimate on a sub‐annual scale requires the measurement of
chemical proxies in fossil material at a high spatial resolution. While various methods for …

Quantitative comparisons and models of time-averaging in bivalve and brachiopod shell accumulations

RA Krause, SL Barbour, M Kowalewski, DS Kaufman… - Paleobiology, 2010 - cambridge.org
The variation in time-averaging between different types of marine skeletal accumulations
within a depositional system is not well understood. Here we provide quantitative data on …

Geodynamic control on carbonate diagenesis: petrographic and isotopic investigation of the Upper Jurassic formations of the Paris Basin (France)

B Vincent, L Emmanuel, P Houel, JP Loreau - Sedimentary Geology, 2007 - Elsevier
The Oxfordian and Kimmeridgian carbonates of the eastern edge of the Paris Basin display
poor reservoir properties (Φ< 15% and K< 0.1 md). The petrographic investigation and the …