Geology Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 2.1.
continued:
Modern shelf carbonates
tr
16
Caribbean Sea:
Multer and Gerhard 1974; Hubbard et
Isolated platforms, shallow lagoons,
Caicos (British West Indies),
al. 1981; Liddell et al. 1984;
reefs, carbonate banks
Grand Cayman, Jamaica,
Wanless and Dravis 1989; Tongpenyai
Nicaragua Rise, St.Croix
and Jones1991; Glaser and Droxler
(U.S. Virgin Islands),
1991; Geister 1992; Triffleman et al.
Barbados
1992; Vecsei 2001
ct
17
Northeastern Brazilian
Jindrich 1983;
Cool-water shelf carbonates in tropical
shelf
Carannante et al. 1988
regions !
tr
18
Gulf of Suez; Gulf of
Friedman 1985; Reiss and Hottinger
Near-coastal sediments, reefs
Aqaba/Elat
1984; Sellwood and Netherwood 1984
tr
19
Red Sea:
Montaggioni et al. 1986; Piller and
Rimmed shelf, sedimentation adjacent
Bay of Safaga (Egypt);
Mansour 1990; Brachert and Dullo
to coral reefs
Sudanian coast; Saudi
1990; Piller 1994; Schuhmacher et al.
Arabian coast
1995; Dullo et al. 1996
tr
20
Persian Gulf and
Purser 1973; Loreau 1982;
Arid subtropical, homoclinal ramp
Trucial Coast
Friedman 1995
(Trucial Coast, Arabian Gulf), reefs,
atoll lagoons; open shelf (Persian Gulf)
tr
21
Western Indian Ocean:
Masse et al. 1989; Lewis 1969;
Ramps, platforms, atoll lagoons, reefs
Mayotte (Comoro
Dullo et al. 1996;
Islands), La Réunion,
Camoin and Davies 1998;
Seychelles
Purdy and Winterer 2001
tr
22
Maldives Islands
Purdy and Bertram 1993; Ciarapica and Oceanic atolls, banks
(Indian Ocean)
Paseri 1993; Aubert and Droxler 1996
te
23
South China Sea
Li Desheng 1984;
Some cold-water carbonates because cold
Guozhong 1998
currents reduce sea-water temperatures
tr
24
Kalimatan (Borneo)
Boichard 1985
Platform
tr
25
Satonda Crater Lake
,
Arp et al. 1996;
'Marine' lake with increased alkalinity
N' Sumbawa, Indonesia
Kempe et al. 1996
tr
26
Western Pacific:
Emery et al. 1954; Davies et al.
Banks, platforms, reefs
Coral Sea, Queensland
1991; Camoin and Davies 1998;
Plateau
Vecsei 2001
tr
27
Shark Bay (W. Australia)
Logan 1974; Playford 1990
Shallow embayment, living stromatolites
tr
28
Great Barrier Reef
Maxwell 1968;
Largest modern reef province in the
(Australia)
Scoffin and Tudhope 1985;
world, rimmed and unrimmed shelf,
Davies et al. 1989;
protected shelf lagoon, coral reefs,
Orpin et al. 1999
Halimeda
banks, subtropical setting
tr
30
Eastern Pacific:
Agegian and Mackenzie 1989
Mid-depth carbonate banks
Hawaian Archipelago
wt 31
Southeastern Brazil
Summerhayes et al. 1976;
Extended carbonate ramps, effect of
Alexandersson and Milliman 1981
upwelling and low terrigenous input
on carbonate production
wt 32
Off southwestern Australia:
Collins 1988
Rimmed shelf
Spencer Gulf
ct
33
Off southern and south-
Collins 1988, James et al. 1992;
One of the world's largest modern
eastern Australian margin:
Boreen et al. 1993;
accumulations of ramp-type coastal
Great Australian Bight:
Bone and James 1993;
and shelf carbonates, high-energy
Lacepede shelf, Otway
James et al. 1994
open shelf
ct
34
Tasmania
Rao and Adabi 1992; Rao and Nelson
Shelf carbonates
1992; Rao 1994; Rao and Amini 1995
ct
35
New Zealand
Carter 1975; Nelson et al.1988;
Platform and shelf carbonates
Rao and Nelson 1992
p36
Ross Sea (Antarctica):
Taviani et al. 2001
Production and accumulation of skeletal
McMurdo
grains on continental shelves and offshore
banks at depths < 350 m
p37
King George V coast
Domack 1983
Sponge-bryozoan mound
(Antarctica)
