Carbonate Microfabrics

Front Matter....Pages iii-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Microfabrics in Carbonate Diagenesis: A Critical Look at Forty Years in Research....Pages 3-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-18
Carbonate Microfabrics Related to Subaerial Exposure and Paleosol Formation....Pages 19-27
Trends of Sedimentary Microfabrics of Ooid Tidal Channels and Deltas....Pages 29-39
Depositional and Early Diagenetic Controls on Texture and Fabric of Carbonate Mudbanks, South Florida....Pages 41-63
Microfabrics of Carbonate Muds in Reefs....Pages 65-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-78
Effects of Submarine Cementation on Microfabrics and Physical Properties of Carbonate Slope Deposits, Northern Bahamas....Pages 79-94
Cold-Seep Carbonates of the Louisiana Continental Slope-to-Basin Floor....Pages 95-104
Habit of Bacterially Induced Precipitates of Calcium Carbonate: Examples from Laboratory Experiments and Recent Sediments....Pages 105-116
Permeability Characteristics of Continental Slope and Deep-Water Carbonates from a Microfabric Perspective....Pages 117-128
Microfabric and Physical Properties of Deep-Sea High Latitude Carbonate Oozes....Pages 129-147
Preferred Orientation and Velocity Anisotropy in Marine Clay-Bearing Calcareous Sediments....Pages 149-161
Stress-Deformation Behavior of Two Carbonate Oozes....Pages 163-167
Front Matter....Pages 169-171
Microfabric and Compositional Clues to Dominant Mud Mineralogy of Micrite Precursors....Pages 173-185
Recrystallization of Dolomite with Time....Pages 187-193
Dolomite Crystal Size Distribution....Pages 195-204
Microfabrics and Geochemistry of Meteorically Altered Dolomite in Devonian and Mississippian Carbonates, Montana and Idaho....Pages 205-225
Microfabrics of Oolites and Pisolites in the Early Precambrian Carawine Dolomite of Western Australia....Pages 227-237
Front Matter....Pages 239-241
Compositional Zoning and Crystal Growth Mechanisms in Carbonates: A New Look at Microfabrics Imaged by Cathodoluminescence Microscopy....Pages 243-252
The Use of Growth Microfabrics and Transmission Electron Microscopy in Understanding Replacement Processes in Carbonates....Pages 253-264
Classification of Lithified Carbonates Using Ternary Plots of Pore Facies: Examples from the Jurassic Smackover Formation....Pages 265-277
Front Matter....Pages 239-241
Fluid Inclusions as Carbonate Microfabrics: A Petrographic Method to Determine Diagenetic History....Pages 279-290
Modeling Diagenetic Bedding, Stylolites, Concretions, and Other Mechanochemical Structures....Pages 291-300
Front Matter....Pages 301-301
Recommendations....Pages 303-307
Back Matter....Pages 309-313