Title: Perspectives in carbonate geology : a tribute to the career of Robert Nathan Ginsburg /
Authors: Swart, P. K.; Eberli, Gregor Paul, 1956-; McKenzie, J. A.; Ginsburg, Robert N.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell : IAS,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Ginsburg, Robert N.; Carbonate rocks; Sediments (Geology); Carbonate rocks.
Abstract: "This special publication Perspectives in Carbonate Geology is a collection of papers most of which were presented at a symposium to honor the 80th birthday of Bob Ginsburg at the meeting of Geological Society of America in Salt Lake City in 2005. The majority of the papers in this publication are connected with the study of modern carbonate sediments. Bob Ginsburg pioneered the concept of comparative sedimentology - that is using the modern to compare to and relate to and understand the ancient. These studies are concerned with Bob's areas of passion: coral reefs and sea-level; submarine cementation and formation of beach rock; surface sediments on Great Bahama Bank and other platforms; origin of ooids; coastal sediments; formation of stromatolites; impact of storms on sediments; and the formation of dolomite. The remainder of the papers apply the study of modern environments and sedimentary processes to ancient sediments."--Pub. desc.
Contents: The paradoxical occurrence of oolitic limestone on the eastern islands of Great Bahama Bank: where do the ooids come from? / Pascal Kindler and Albert C. Hine -- Calcareous epiphyte production in cool-water carbonate seagrass depositional environments -- southern Australia / Noel P. James, Yvonne Bone, Kirsty M. Brown and Anthony Cheshire -- Microbes versus metazoans as dominant reef builders: insights from modern marine environments in the Exuma Cays, Bahamas / Miriam S. Andres [and others] -- Microbial dolomite precipitation under aerobic conditions: results from Brejo do Espinho Lagoon (Brazil) and culture experiments (Mónica Sánchez-Román [and others] -- Karst sub-basins and their relationship to the transport of Tertiary siliciclastic sediments on the Florida Platform (Albert C. Hine [and others] -- Controls on facies mosaics of carbonate platforms: a case study from the Oxfordian of the Swiss Jura / André Strasser and Stéphanie Védrine -- The allocyclic interpretation of the 'Latemar Cycles' (Middle Triassic, the Dolomites, Italy) and implications for high-frequency cyclostratigraphic forcing / Rob M. Forkner, Linda A. Hinnov, Robert K. Goldhammer and Laurie A. Hardie -- Phylloid algal mounds in the Paradox Basin, southwestern USA: an alternative to the in situ constructional growth model? / G. Michael Grammer and Audrey L. Ritter.