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In the Zielin oilfield in the Polish part of the Southern Permian Basin, oil and gas are produced from an Upper Permian Main Dolomite (Ca2) isolated platform. The paleohigh developed on a volcanic cone formed in Early Rotliegend time. Based on microfacies analysis of Ca2 reservoir rocks from four wells (Zielin-1, -2, -3 and -3KBis), four microfacies types are distinguished: peloidal dolomitized wackestone,...
The variety of depositional facies of a Lower Jurassic carbonate platform has been investigated on the island of Mallorca along a transect comprising six stratigraphic profiles. Twenty-nine facies and sub-facies have been recognized, grouped into seven facies associations, ranging in depositional environment from supratidal/terrestrial and peritidal to outer platform. Spatial and temporal (2D) facies...
The Cretaceous of Brazil is widely known for vast carbonate platforms that developed along the Brazilian east coast. An onshore well drilled and logged in Sergipe State on a structural low allowed the recovery and study of a continuous 439-m core section that records an interval aged from the late Albian to the early Turonian. The section is characterized by calcilutites, marls, and shales, with occasional...
The middle Miocene carbonates from the NW part of the Transylvanian Basin are represented mainly by rhodalgal facies. This paper provides an accurate taxonomic account of the red algal assemblages, facies analysis, and paleoenvironmental interpretation of the Badenian deposits outcropping in Vălenii Șomcutei area. A total of 13 red algal species belonging to the orders Corallinales, Hapalidiales,...
Bioerosive structures in the cortical region of a vertebra from a mosasaur fall in the López de Bertodano Formation (Upper Maastrichtian) in Seymour Island (Isla Marambio), Antarctica, are reported. The traces studied are similar but not coincident with the described microborings in other fossil bone remains. The morphology and extension of these bioerosive structures are considered as the result...
Eocene limestones from the Osa Peninsula of southern Costa Rica were deposited in a slope-apron environment in an active volcanic forearc setting. Larger foraminiferal assemblages from clasts and beds record two main resedimented carbonate microfacies: a dominant Eoconuloides–Helicostegina–Eulinderina facies from the middle Eocene (Lutetian) and a subordinate Lepidocyclina tobleri panamensis–Lepidocyclina (Nephrolepidina) chaperi...
In the Dinaridic Ophiolite Belt, small (m-scale) to large (km-scale) blocks of Middle to Upper Triassic, and Middle to Upper Jurassic, more or less silicified bedded limestone are widely present, both as parts of para-autochthonous successions and as redeposited blocks in ophiolitic mélanges. The studied, approximately 230-m-thick succession in the wider area of Zlatar Mountain, is one of the most...
Between Lagos and Albufeira, the Algarve coast of southern Portugal is marked by outcrops of the lower Miocene Lagos-Portimão Formation (LPF) consisting of yellow sandstone and coarse skeletal-rhodolithic limestone. This contribution focuses on the rhodoliths, their paleoecology, taphonomy, and biological composition, in the Lagos Biocalcarenite, the lower member of the LPF. Special attention is paid...
The Upper Cretaceous Terradets Limestone of the south Pyrenean Basin consists of two subunits, named the Lower Terradets and the Upper Terradets. In the Lower Terradets subunit, sedimentological features and fossil content permit distinguishing mid-ramp, bioclastic shoal and inner-ramp lagoonal facies associations, each characterized by a distinctive larger foraminiferal assemblage. Mid-ramp facies...
Integrated stratigraphic (litho-, bio-, event, chemo-, gamma ray, and sequence stratigraphy) and sedimentologic analyses of two new core sections greatly improved the understanding of facies development, sea-level changes and correlation of the lower Upper Cretaceous in the south-eastern Münsterland Cretaceous Basin, Germany. A large-scale second-order sea-level cycle is mirrored by the increasing...
The Serpukhovian Book Canyon Conglomerate is an unpublished limestone conglomerate contained within the Tyler Formation in central Montana. It overlies and contains clasts of the Bear Gulch Limestone, a plattenkalk deposit yielding amazing paleontological detail. The Book Canyon Conglomerate is up to 2 m thick, markedly lensoid, and laterally discontinuous in its outcrop for a distance of 2 km but...
Asymmetric, pendant cements are considered good indicators for early lithification in the vadose zone. In the present study, asymmetric cements are recorded in thin-sections of a Lower Jurassic limestone from the Traras Mountains (northwest Algeria). Geopetal fabrics, however, indicate that these seemingly “pendant cements” are, in some places, oriented upwards, i.e., they have grown in the opposite...
Carbonate concretions have been recorded in many recent and ancient marine sediments around the world. The Middle Miocene marl of the Tenes area, situated in the northeast of the Lower Chelif Basin in NW-Algeria, contains such carbonate concretions but with a variety of different structures and morphologies. Three different basic types are distinguished: nodular (spheroidal, ellipsoidal, disc, and...
The Carboniferous–Permian Kano-yama limestone in the Jurassic Chichibu Accretionary Complex, central Japan, contains an algal-microbial mound composed of Anthracoporella, Palaeoaplysina, Tubiphytes, Archaeolithoporella, and bryozoans. The limestone is characterized by abundant micrite, implying a low-energy back-reef depositional environment. The fusuline fauna includes Daixina sokensis, Carbonoschwagerina minatoi...
Coral cores taken from Great Barrier Reef massive Porites sp. were assessed for bioerosion by the brown demosponge Cliona orientalis Thiele, 1900, but also yielded evidence for microbial bioerosion that was partly simultaneously active with the sponge bioerosion. The most common microborer traces throughout were Ichnoreticulina elegans (Radtke, 1991) produced by the chlorophyte alga Ostreobium quekettii...
The present study analyzed the dark patina present on the surface of a marble statue exposed in the Gardens of the Quirinal Palace in Rome, with a special focus on euendolithic black meristematic fungi. The study of the spatial distribution of microorganisms and their identification were performed by using a multistep approach based on microscopy, cultural analyses, molecular techniques, and embedding...
The shipwreck of Bajo de la Campana (VII–VI century B.C.) was a Phoenician merchant ship accidentally discovered in the 1950s off the coasts of the Murcia region (Spain). Sixty-four elephant tusks were part of the cargo. Some of them were recovered by archaeologists between 2007 and 2011 and are now stored in the restoration laboratory of the National Museum of Underwater Archaeology (ARQVA) of Cartagena...
Boring sponges are among the most important erosive organisms causing relevant damage on calcium carbonate substrates in marine environments. The present work offers a contribution to the knowledge of the bioerosive impact of sponges on archaeological artifacts such as the marble statues recovered from the shipwreck of Antikythera (Greece) and the Blue Grotto (Capri, Italy). These peculiar substrates...
The study investigated the role of boring polychaetes in the bioerosion of a submerged Roman mosaic floor in the Underwater Archaeological Park of Baiae (Naples, Italy). Three boring species, Dodecaceria concharum, Polydora ciliata, and Pseudopolydora antennata, were found. The initial colonization phases of boring polychaetes were investigated on experimental limestone panels placed underwater in...
A remarkable diversity of bioerosion trace fossils is reflected by the plethora of ichnotaxa that has been proposed for these structures during the past two centuries. Bioerosion traces include microborings, macroborings, grazing traces, attachment etchings, and predation traces. They occur in calcareous, siliceous, osteic, and xylic substrates, and are known or interpreted to be produced by tracemakers...
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