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 …

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 …

The origin of carbonate mud and implications for global climate

EC Geyman, Z Wu, MD Nadeau, S Edmonsond… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
Carbonate mud represents one of the most important geochemical archives for
reconstructing ancient climatic, environmental, and evolutionary change from the rock …

[HTML][HTML] Characterisation of weak layers, physical controls on their global distribution and their role in submarine landslide formation

R Gatter, MA Clare, J Kuhlmann, K Huhn - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Submarine landslides pose a hazard to coastal communities as they can generate powerful
tsunamis, and threaten critical offshore infrastructure such as seafloor cable networks that …

The mantle, CO2 and the giant Aptian chemogenic lacustrine carbonate factory of the South Atlantic: Some carbonates are made, not born

VP Wright - Sedimentology, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract During the Aptian (Cretaceous), in what is now the South Atlantic, the largest
chemogenic (abiotic) carbonate factory so far identified in the Phanerozoic geological record …

[HTML][HTML] Nutrient cycling in tropical and temperate coastal waters: is latitude making a difference?

C Lønborg, M Müller, ECV Butler, S Jiang… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Tropical coastal waters are highly dynamic and amongst the most biogeochemical active
zones in the ocean. This review compares nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) cycles in …

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 …

High sea surface temperatures were a prerequisite for the development and expansion of the Great Barrier Reef

B Petrick, L Reuning, A Auderset, M Pfeiffer, G Auer… - Science …, 2024‏ - science.org
The Great Barrier Reef is the largest reef system in the modern ocean. To date, the influence
of temperature on the origin and long-term evolution of the Great Barrier Reef remains …

The origin of cap carbonate after the Ediacaran glaciations

R Wang, C **ng, B Wen, X Wang, K Liu… - Global and Planetary …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Abstracts Cap carbonate is the most unique component of a Snowball Earth glaciation, ie,
two Cryogenian global glaciations. In the canonical model, cap carbonate precipitation …

The microbial carbonate factory of Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay, Western Australia

EP Suosaari, RP Reid, C Mercadier, BE Vitek… - Scientific Reports, 2022‏ - nature.com
Microbialites and peloids are commonly associated throughout the geologic record.
Proterozoic carbonate megafacies are composed predominantly of micritic and peloidal …