Carbonate systems during the Oligocene-Miocene climatic transition /

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Imprint:Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Description:xi, 300 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language:English
Series:Special publication ... of the international association of sedimentologists ; no. 42
Special publication ... of the International Association of Sedimentologists ; no. 42.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8270721
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Other authors / contributors:Mutti, M. (Maria)
Piller, Werner E.
Betzler, Christian.
ISBN:9781444337914 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1444337912 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Miocene carbonate systems: an introduction
  • 1. A synthesis of Late Oligocene through Miocene deep sea temperatures as inferred from foraminiferal Mg/Ca Ratios
  • 2. Latitudinal trends in Cenozoic reef patterns and their relationship to climate
  • 3. Carbonate grain associations: their use and environmental significance, a brief review
  • 4. Temperate and tropical carbonatesedimentation episodes in the Neogene Betic basins (southern Spain) linked to climatic oscillations and changes in Atlantic-Mediterranean connections: constraints from isotopic data
  • 5. Facies models and geometries of the Ragusa Platform (SE Sicily, Italy) near the Serravallian-Tortonian boundary
  • 6. The sensitivity of a tropical foramolrhodalgal carbonate ramp to rapid sea-level change: Miocene of the central Apennines, Italy
  • 7. Facies and sequence architecture of a tropical foramol-rhodalgal carbonate ramp: Miocene of the central Apennines (Italy)
  • 8. Facies and stratigraphic architecture of a Miocene warm-temperate to tropical fault-block carbonate platform, Sardinia (Central Mediterranean Sea)
  • 9. Coralline algae, oysters and echinoids - a liaison in rhodolith formation from the Burdigalian of the Latium-Abruzzi Platform (Italy)
  • 10. Palaeoenvironmental significance of Oligocene-Miocene coralline red algae - a review
  • 11. Molluscs as a major part of subtropical shallow-water carbonate production - an example from a Middle Miocene oolite-shoal (Upper Serravallian, Austria)
  • 12. Echinoderms and Oligo-Miocene carbonate systems: potential applications in sedimentology and environmental reconstruction
  • 13. Coral diversity and temperature: a palaeoclimatic perspective for the Oligo-Miocene of the Mediterranean region
  • 14. Late Oligocene to Miocene reef formation on Kita-daito-jima, northern Philppine Sea
  • 15. Carbonate production in rift basins: models for platform inception, growth and dismantling, and for shelf to basin sediment transport, Miocene Sardinia Rift Basin, Italy