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This paper documents the facies change in response to the Holocene transgression within five sediment cores taken in the lagoon of Mayotte, which contain a Type-1 depositional sequence (lowstand, transgressive and highstand deposits underlain by an erosive sequence boundary). Quantitative compositional analysis and visual examination of the bioclasts were used to document the facies changes. The distribution...
The epilithozoan fauna associated with Quaternary Fe–Mn crustgrounds sampled off Capri and Li Galli Islands is described. During the Quaternary, the interplay among the tectonically induced topography, sea-current patterns, and the changing physical-chemical properties of the water column promoted conditions favouring Fe–Mn oxide accumulation. In the samples dredged between 510–263 m depth (DRA 7),...
Laminar bryozoans of shallow marine sites from cool-temperate to subtropical climate in Japan and New Zealand tolerated mainly agglutinated biofilms composed of diatoms, fungi, cyanobacteria and other bacteria as well as debris trapped in slimes. Also monobacterial films were relatively frequent on living bryozoans, while rigid, tangled mats of filamentous cyanobacteria mainly occupied surrounding...
In the Central Lombardy Basin (Southern Alps) Anisian carbonate platform marginal facies yielding the first documented occurrence of coral colonies in this area of the Western Tethys has been recognized. These marginal facies identify the east-west transition between two sectors with a different Anisian evolution. West of the recognized marginal facies the Anisian succession is characterised by subtidal...
The Tamezzakht succession (Maastrichtian–middle Burdigalian), situated at the fringe between the Internal and the External zones, displays contrasting lithologies with abrupt facies changes, discontinuities, and/or coarse-grained calciturbidite in between. These criteria allow the definition of seven main lithostratigraphic formations. Depositional environments (oxygenation levels, trophic conditions,...
The Lower-Middle Jurassic of the Krížna unit in the Western Tatra Mts. (southern Poland) shows considerable facies variation. Crinoidal grainstones of variable thickness (up to 12 m) are one of characteristic facies. They occur above spiculites which were deposited below storm wave base on the slopes of elevated horsts. First single beds of crinoidal limestones occur within spiculites. They were deposited...
Prosperous deep coral mounds including living colonies of Lophelia pertusa together with Madrepora oculata and Desmophyllum dianthus (= D. cristagalli) have been discovered in 2000, by fishery operations on the eastern side of the Ionian Sea. The living coral mounds are located between ca. 300 and 1,100 m on a gently dipping shelf off Apulia at Santa Maria di Leuca (SML), and characterized by a...
The Kuwait example studied here may serve as a model for ancient carbonate ramp systems just as the classical—but markedly different—southern Arabian-Persian Gulf ramp of the Trucial Coast (United Arab Emirates). Five sedimentary facies may be distinguished on the modern southern Kuwait carbonate ramp based on quantitative sedimentological, mineralogical, and geochemical analyses of 130 surface sediment...
The San Salvador Patlanoaya section (Puebla State of Mexico) has been subdivided into seven informal members labeled A–F. Members C–F have been dated as Missourian to Leonardian (equivalent to Kasimovian to Kungurian, i.e. lower Upper Pennsylvanian to upper Lower Permian). Members C–E display a shallowing-upward trend as does member F. The biodiversity of these carbonate deposits outcropping in the...
During the Middle Oxfordian, numerous coral reefs flourished on the northern margin of the Tethys Ocean. The outcrop of Bonnevaux-le-Prieuré (northern French Jura mountains) provides a rare opportunity to observe a nearly complete section allowing the installation, evolution and demise of this global carbonate reef rich event to be studied. Quantitative data on coral assemblages together with sedimentological...
The Latemar is a mainly aggrading platform, but shows repeated backstepping during its entire development. The behaviour of the slope does not reflect accommodation changes and lateral consistencies of the lagoonal interior; the Latemar contemporaneously reveals different, even contrasting depositional characteristics. The slope of the late stage platform evolution corresponds at least partially to...
Sirenian vertebrae and ribs have been recently discovered from two Middle Eocene localities of the Pamplona Basin, Navarre (western Pyrenees). These outcrops correspond to different lower Bartonian lithostratigraphic units: the lower part of the Pamplona Marl Formation (Uztarrotz site) and the upper part of the Ardanatz Sandstone (Ardanatz site). The former represents a deep and low-energy sea floor...
The environmental distribution of encrusting bryozoans settling on disarticulated and living bivalve shells has been recorded from five stations in Japan and New Zealand. Some insight into the observed distribution patterns emerges from information on the interaction of bryozoans with microbial mats. Advancing existing classifications, we have subdivided the encrusting bryozoan morphotypes into seven...
We present a comprehensive facies scheme for west-central Jordan platform deposits of upper Albian to Turonian age, discuss Cenomanian and Turonian carbonate cycles, and reconstruct the paleogeographic evolution of the platform. Comparisons with adjacent shelf areas (Israel, Sinai) emphasize local characteristics as well as the regional platform development. Platform deposits are subdivided into fifteen...
High resolutional microfacies data from the Beringhauser Tunnel section in the northern part of the Rheinisches Schiefergebirge allow the reconstruction of a relative sea-level curve. Distinctive sedimentological signals in this cephalopod limestone section indicate the positions of sea-level lowstands that correlate well with pre-existing sea-level curves. Only slight differences in some lowstand...
Subfossil azoxanthellate deep-sea coral mounds occur at 355–410 m on the continental slope of the NE Tyrrhenian Sea between Gorgona and Capraia islands, Tuscan Archipelago. These low-relief patch reefs are at present buried by a thin muddy drape. Their age is latest Pleistocene. The colonial scleractinian Madrepora oculata is the major frame builder, in association with the solitary coral Desmophyllum dianthus...
Two main types of microbial encrustation were identified in Middle Oxfordian to lowermost Kimmeridgian deposits in the Prebetic Zone (southern Spain), showing existing relationships between skeletal content, fabric and morphology of these organosedimentary structures. Laminated planar and concentric encrustations relate to peloidal fabrics (mainly constituted of microbes = microbial laminated fabrics...
The distal part of a mass flow deposit has been excavated across an area of 400 m2 in the basinal facies of the Eckfeld Maar. The high concentration and diversity of fossils in mainly excellent preservation (i.e. leaves, fruits/seeds, wood, molluscs, vertebrate teeth, and bones such as undeformed sculls) is unique and underline its outstanding importance concerning sedimentological, taxonomical, and...
The siliciclastic, up to 4,000 m thick Upper Triassic–Bajocian Shemshak Formation is widespread across the Iran Plate, especially in the Alborz Mountains of northern Iran. In contrast to its lower, generally non-marine part, the upper part is marine. Based on the Tazareh section of the eastern Alborz, an integrated analysis of this marine interval is presented. The 1,700 m thick marine sedimentary...
Despite prejudices that comparisons of paleoecological patterns in modern and fossil reef communities are of doubtful validity, we compare the biologic response of living coralgal reefs in French Polynesia to environmental stress with an exceptionally well exposed Middle Permian sponge reef and Shamovella-microbial reef of the Capitan Limestone in New Mexico. In the western Tuamotu Archipelago, reef...
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