Biogenic Sedimentary Rocks in a Cold, Cenozoic Ocean: Neritic Southern Australia

James, Noel P.; Bone, Yvonne

ISBN 10: 3030639819 / ISBN 13: 9783030639815

Editore: Springer, 2021

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• Titolo: Biogenic Sedimentary Rocks in a Cold, Cenozoic Ocean: Neritic Southern Australia
• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3030639819
• ISBN 13: 9783030639815
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1. Auflage
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

<p>This book documents and interprets the onshore Cenozoic temperate carbonate depositional system along the southern margin of Australia.&nbsp; These strata, deposited in four separate basins, together with the extensive modern marine system offshore, comprise the largest such cool-water carbonate system on the globe.&nbsp; The approach is classic and comparative but the information is a synthesis of recent research and new information.&nbsp; A brief section of introduction outlines the setting, modern comparative sedimentology offshore, and structure of the Cenozoic onshore.&nbsp; The core of the book is a detailed analysis and illustration of the four Eocene to Pleistocene successions.&nbsp;&nbsp; Deposits range from temperate carbonates, to biosiliceous spiculites, to marginal marine siliciclastics.&nbsp; Each unit is interpreted, as much as possible, based on our understanding of the modern offshore depositional system.&nbsp; A subsequent part concentrates on diagenesis both before and after the late Miocene uplift.&nbsp; It turns out that alteration in the two packages is entirely different.&nbsp;&nbsp; The preceding attributes of each succession are then interpreted on the basis of controlling factors such as tectonics, oceanography, climate, and glaciation of nearby Antarctica.&nbsp; This research has revealed new implications for the interpretation of specific attributes of cool-water carbonate sedimentology that could only be discovered from the rock record.&nbsp; Insights concerning cyclicity, reef mounds, biosiliceous deposition, and trophic resources are detailed in the next section.&nbsp; The concluding part focuses on global comparisons, especially the Mediterranean and New Zealand.</p>

Informazioni sull'autore

<p><b>Noel James</b> is Professor Emeritus at Queen's University in Kingston Ontario.&nbsp; He received his doctorate from McGill University, has worked for the petroleum industry, helped establish the University of Miami Comparative Sedimentology Laboratory, and taught at Memorial University of Newfoundland.&nbsp; Professor James’ research concerns the sedimentology and diagnosis of carbonate sediments and rocks throughout geologic history.&nbsp; Initial studies focused on reefs in the Caribbean where he helped pioneer the use of research submersibles in reef studies and formulated actualistic depositional models.&nbsp; Subsequent research focused on Paleozoic carbonate continental margin evolution, Cenozoic reef systems in the Middle East, and Proterozoic carbonates and reefs in Arctic Canada.&nbsp; He is currently engaged in researching the cool-water carbonate depositional realm, in the Southern Ocean and in the late Paleozoic limestones worldwide.&nbsp; Professor James has written and co-edited books on Modern and Fossil Reefs, Cool-Water Carbonates, Paleokarst, Facies Models, Precambrian limestones, and Australian cool-water carbonates, and a textbook on the origin of carbonate rocks.&nbsp;&nbsp;He has been awarded the Twenhofel Medal by SEPM, the Logan Medal by GAC, and the Sorby Medal of the IAS.&nbsp; He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Member of the Order of Canada, the Nation’s highest civilian honor.</p><b>Yvonne Bone</b> is Retired Associate Professor in the Department of Geology and Earth Sciences, the University of Adelaide, Australia.&nbsp; She is an honours B.Sc. graduate of that university where she also attained her Ph.D.&nbsp; Her scientific specialties are regional geology, sedimentary geology, geochemistry, paleontology, and oceanography.&nbsp; Her original research focused on the origin of Precambrian uranium deposits in the Northern Territory.&nbsp; Always intrigued by sedimentology, she subsequently turned her research interests to the carbonate rock record.&nbsp; Focusing first on Proterozoic successions, her interests eventually changed to the intimate relationship between modern carbonates offshore southern Australia today and the Cenozoic rock record.&nbsp; She has been Chief and Co-Chief Scientist on several marine research cruises off southern and western Australia that resulted in numerous co-authored scientific publications and a well-received book.&nbsp; At the same time, her research on living and fossil bryozoans stand as landmarks in their field.&nbsp; Over the years, she has tutored numerous graduate students who now hold prestigious positions worldwide.&nbsp; Finally, she is a devoted teacher whose students universally laud her wonderful lecturing style and caring mentorship.&nbsp;&nbsp;