Mutti / Piller / Betzler Carbonate Systems During the Olicocene-Miocene Climatic Transition (Special Publication 42 of the IAS)

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-4835-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: International Association Of Sedimentologists Series

The Oligocene and Miocene Epochs comprise the most important phasesin the Cenozoic global cooling that led from a greenhouse to anicehouse Earth.
Recent major advances in the understanding and time-resolutionof climate events taking place at this time, as well as theproliferation of studies on Oligocene and Mioceneshallow-water/neritic carbonate systems, invite us to re-evaluatethe significance of these carbonate systems in the context ofchanges in climate and Earth surface processes. Carbonate systems,because of a wide dependence on the ecological requirements oforganisms producing the sediment, are sensitive recorders ofchanges in environmental conditions on the Earth surface.
The papers included in this Special Publication address thedynamic evolution of carbonate systems deposited during theOligocene and Miocene in the context on climatic and Earth surfacesprocesses focusing on climatic trends and controls overdeposition; temporal changes in carbonate producers andpalaeoecology; carbonate terminology; facies; processes andenvironmental parameters (including water temperature andproduction depth profiles); carbonate producers and their spatialand temporal variability; and tectonic controls overarchitecture.
This book is part of the International Associationof Sedimentologists (IAS) Special Publications.
The Special Publications from the IAS are a set of thematicvolumes edited by specialists on subjects of central interest tosedimentologists. Papers are reviewed and printed to the same highstandards as those published in the journal Sedimentologyand several of these volumes have become standard works ofreference.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mutti, Maria

Piller, Werner E.

Betzler, Christian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Miocene carbonate systems: an introduction vii
M. Mutti, W. Piller and C. Betzler
A synthesis of Late Oligocene through Miocene deep seatemperatures as inferred from foraminiferal Mg/Ca ratios 1
K. Billups and K. Scheiderich
Latitudinal trends in Cenozoic reef patterns and theirrelationship to climate 17
C. Perrin and W. Kiessling
Carbonate grain associations: their use and environmentalsignificance, a brief review 35
P. Kindler and M. Wilson
Temperate and tropical carbonatesedimentation episodes in theNeogene Betic basins (southern Spain) linked to climaticoscillations and changes in Atlantic-Mediterranean connections:constraints from isotopic data 49
J. M. Martyn, J. C. Braga, I. M. Sanchez-Almazo and J.Aguirre
Facies models and geometries of the Ragusa Platform (SE Sicily,Italy) near the Serravallian-Tortonian boundary 71
C. Ruchonnet and P. Kindler
The sensitivity of a tropical foramolrhodalgal carbonate ramp torelative sealevel change: Miocene of the central Apennines, Italy89
M. Brandano, H. Westphal and G. Mateu-Vicens
Facies and sequence architecture of a tropical foramol-rhodalgalcarbonate ramp: Miocene of the central Apennines (Italy) 107
M. Brandano, L. Corda and F. Castorina
Facies and stratigraphic architecture of a Miocenewarm-temperate to tropical fault-block carbonate platform, Sardinia(Central Mediterranean Sea) 129
M.-F. Benisek, G. Marcano, C. Betzler and M. Mutti
Coralline algae, oysters and echinoids - a liaison inrhodolith formation from the Burdigalian of the Latium-AbruzziPlatform (Italy) 149
M. Brandano and W. E. Piller
Palaeoenvironmental significance of Oligocene-Miocenecoralline red algae - a review 165
J. C. Braga, D. Bassi and W. E. Piller
Molluscs as a major part of subtropical shallow-water carbonateproduction - an example from a Middle Miocene oolite shoal(Upper Serravallian, Austria) 183
M. Harzhauser and W. E. Piller
Echinoderms and Oligo-Miocene carbonate systems: potentialapplications in sedimentology and environmental reconstruction201
A. Kroh and J. H. Nebelsick
Coral diversity and temperature: a palaeoclimatic perspectivefor the Oligo-Miocene of the Mediterranean region 229
F. R. Bosellini and C. Perrin
Late Oligocene to Miocene reef formation on Kita-daito-jima,northern Philippine Sea 245
Y. Iryu, S. Inagaki, Y. Suzuki and K. Yamamoto
Carbonate production in rift basins: models for platforminception, growth and dismantling, and for shelf to basin sedimenttransport, Miocene Sardinia Rift Basin, Italy 257
M. Vigorito, M. Murru and L. Simone
Index 283