Carbonate Microfabrics

Carbonate Microfabrics is the first attempt to bring together in one reference the application of microfabric analysis to the solution of problems in the fields of geology, geophysics and geotechnique. This book, the result of a symposium and workshop on carbonate microfabrics, explores the relationship of microfabrics to fundamental properties and processes in carbonates. Carbonate Microfabrics will be of particular interest to geologists and is intended to be of general interest to researchers in such related fields as geochemistry, geophysics, and geotechnique.

Inhalt

I - Keynote Address.- 1 Microfabrics in Carbonate Diagenesis: A Critical Look at Forty Years in Research.- II - Recent Shallow-Water Carbonates.- 2 Carbonate Microfabrics Related to Subaerial Exposure and Paleosol Formation.- 3 Trends of Sedimentary Microfabrics of Ooid Tidal Channels and Deltas.- 4 Depositional and Early Diagenetic Controls on Texture and Fabric of Carbonate Mudbanks, South Florida.- 5 Microfabrics of Carbonate Muds in Reefs.- III-Recent Slope and Deep-Water Carbonates.- 6 Effects of Submarine Cementation on Microfabrics and Physical Properties of Carbonate Slope Deposits, Northern Bahamas.- 7 Cold-Seep Carbonates of the Louisiana Continental Slope-to-Basin Floor.- 8 Habit of Bacterially Induced Precipitates of Calcium Carbonate: Examples from Laboratory Experiments and Recent Sediments.- 9 Permeability Characteristics of Slope and Deep-Water Carbonates from a Microfabric Perspective.- 10 Microfabric and Physical Properties of Deep-Sea High Latitude Carbonate Oozes.- 11 Preferred Orientation and Velocity Anisotropy in Marine Clay-Bearing Calcareous Sediments.- 12 Stress-Deformation Behavior of Two Carbonate Oozes.- IV -Ancient Carbonates.- 13 Microfabric and Compositional Clues to Dominant Mud Mineralogy of Micrite Precursors.- 14 Recrystallization of Dolomite with Time.- 15 Dolomite Crystal Size Distribution.- 16 Microfabrics and Geochemistry of Meteorically Altered Dolomite in Devonian and Mississippian Carbonates, Montana and Idaho.- 17 Microfabrics of Oolites and Pisolites in the Early Precambrian Carawine Dolomite of Western Australia.- V - Techniques.- 18 Compositional Zoning and Crystal Growth Mechanisms in Carbonates: A New Look at Microfabrics Imaged by Cathodoluminescence Microscopy.- 19 The Use of Growth Microfabrics and Transmission Electron Microscopy in Understanding Replacement Processes in Carbonates.- 20 Classification of Lithified Carbonates Using Ternary Plots of Pore Facies: Examples from the Jurassic Smackover Formation.- 21 Fluid Inclusions as Carbonate Microfabrics: A Petrographic Method to Determine Diagenetic History.- 22 Modeling Diagenetic Bedding, Stylolites, Concretions, and Other Mechanochemical Structures.- VI-Workshop.- 23 Recommendations.