Low-latitude continental shelves, mixed siliciclastic–carbonate sedimentary systems, provide an understanding of sedimentary environments driven by paleoclimatological processes. The Bonaparte Gulf, northwestern Australian continental shelf, is among the widest in the world, ranging to 500 km, with shallow carbonate terraces and platforms that were exposed during periods of lower sea level. The...

Knowledge of seabed dynamics in nearshore environments is needed to address problems ranging from to the evolution of coastal geomorphology to the changing nature of seabed acoustical properties. One successful approach, used primarily in fine-grained sedimentary environments, has been the application short-lived particle-reactive radioisotopes to quantify sediment deposition and accumulation r...

As pointed out in the introduction to this book, shales contain the lion’s share of earth history that is recorded in sedimentary rocks. Understanding their deposition is key to the reconstruction of past oceans, landscapes, climates, and climatic cycles. Yet, whereas students of sandstones and carbonates have been able to learn a great deal about the deposition of these rocks from studying bed...

this study is focused on the biostratigraphy, sedimentary environments, facies distribution, and sequence stratigraphy of the coniacian–santonian sediments of tange-bulfaris section. five assemblage zones have been recognized by distribution of the foraminifera in the study area. assemblage zone 1(chara ostracods zone) is coniacian in age and occurs in the lower part of the succession. assembla...

Sedimentary rocks examined by the Curiosity rover at Yellowknife Bay, Mars, were derived from sources that evolved from an approximately average martian crustal composition to one influenced by alkaline basalts. No evidence of chemical weathering is preserved, indicating arid, possibly cold, paleoclimates and rapid erosion and deposition. The absence of predicted geochemical variations indicate...

The Persian Gulf is part of an asymmetric foreland basin related to the Zagros Orogen. It has been episodically flooded for much of its history which are reflected in sedimentary successions. The evaluation of this succession from depositional trend view, in central Persian Gulf during Paleocene-Eocene, is the aim of this article. The sedimentary rocks physical characteristics effects on seismi...