Cyclic and event stratification

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
General Remarks About the Nature, Occurrence, and Recognition of Cyclic Sequences (Periodites)....Pages 3-7
Limestone-Marl Cycles (Periodites): Diagnosis, Significance, Causes — a Review....Pages 8-53
Observations on Well-bedded Upper Jurassic Limestones....Pages 54-62
Origin of Marl-Limestone Alternation (Oxford 2) in Southwest Germany....Pages 63-71
Limestone-Shale Bedding and Perturbations of the Earth’s Orbit....Pages 72-95
Rhythmic Sedimentation Documented in a Late Cretaceous Core (Abstract)....Pages 96-96
Ecology and Depositional Environments of Chalk-Marl and Limestone-Shale Rhythms in the Cretaceous of North America (Abstract)....Pages 97-97
Diagenetic Redistribution of Carbonate, a Process in Forming Limestone-Marl Alternations (Devonian and Carboniferous, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, W. Germany)....Pages 98-112
A Contribution to the Origin of Limestone-Shale Sequences....Pages 113-120
Deep-Sea Stratigraphy: Cenozoic Climate Steps and the Search for Chemo-Climatic Feedback....Pages 121-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
General Remarks About Event Deposits....Pages 161-174
Experiments on the Distinction of Wave and Current Influenced Shell Accumulations....Pages 175-179
Calcareous Tempestites: Storm-dominated Stratification in Upper Muschelkalk Limestones (Middle Trias, SW-Germany)....Pages 180-198
Allochthonous Coquinas in the Upper Muschelkalk — Caused by Storm Events? (Abstract)....Pages 199-199
The Role of Storm Processes in Generating Shell Beds in Paleozoic Shelf Environments....Pages 200-207
Rhythmic Bedding and Shell Bed Formation in the Upper Jurassic of East Greenland....Pages 208-222
Shell Beds in the Lower Lias of South Germany — Facies and Origin....Pages 223-239
Storm Sedimentation in the Carboniferous Limestones Near Weston-Super-Mare (Dinantian, SW-England)....Pages 240-247
Event-Stratification in Nummulite Accumulations and in Shell Beds from the Eocene of Egypt....Pages 248-262
The “Bank der kleinen Terebrateln” (Upper Muschelkalk, Triassic) Near Schwäbisch Hall (SW-Germany) — a Tempestite Condensation Horizon....Pages 263-285
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Glauconitic Condensation Through High-Energy Events in the Albian Near Clars (Escragnolles, Var, SE-France)....Pages 286-298
Muschelkalk/Keuper Bone-Beds (Middle Triassic, SW-Germany) — Storm Condensation in a Regressive Cycle....Pages 299-325
Condensed Griotte Facies and Cephalopod Accumulations in the Upper Devonian of the Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco....Pages 326-332
Distinctive Features of Sandy Tempestites....Pages 333-349
Multidirectional Palaeocurrents as Indicators of Shelf Storm Beds....Pages 350-353
Scour and Fill: The Significance of Event Separation....Pages 354-362
Storm-surge Sandstones and the Deposition of Interbedded Limestone: Late Precambrian, Southern Norway....Pages 363-370
Flat-Pebble Conglomerates, Storm Deposits, and the Cambrian Bottom Fauna....Pages 371-385
Front Matter....Pages 387-387
Jurassic Bedded Cherts from the North Apennines, Italy: Dyscyclic Sedimentation in the Deep Pelagic Realm....Pages 389-403
Quartz-sandy Allodapic Limestones as a Result of Lime Mud-Raising Clastic Turbidites....Pages 404-418
Belemnites as Current Indicators in Shallow Marine Turbidites of the Santonian Bavnodde Grønsand, Bornholm (Denmark)....Pages 419-422
Habits of Zircon as a Tool for Precise Tephrostratigraphic Correlation....Pages 423-428
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
Cyclic and Dyscyclic Black Shale Formation....Pages 431-455
Cyclicity and the Storage of Organic Matter in Middle Cretaceous Pelagic Sediments....Pages 456-475
Types of Stratification in the Kupferschiefer....Pages 476-481
Environmental Changes During Oil Shale Deposition as Deduced from Stable Isotope Ratios....Pages 482-501
The Community Structure of “Shell Islands” on Oxygen Depleted Substrates in Mesozoic Dark Shales and Laminated Carbonates (Abstract)....Pages 502-503
Ammonite Shells as Habitats — Floats or Benthic Islands? (Abstract)....Pages 504-504
Palynology of Upper Liassic Bituminous Shales (Abstract)....Pages 505-505
The Bituminous Lower Toarcian at the Truc de Balduc Near Mende (Département de la Lozère, S-France)....Pages 506-511
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
Bedding Types of the Toarcian Black Shales in NW-Greece....Pages 512-525
Stratinomy of the Lower Kimmeridge Clay (Dorset, England) (Abstract)....Pages 526-526
The Formation of the Bituminous Layers of the Middle Triassic of Ticino (Switzerland) (Abstract)....Pages 527-527
Front Matter....Pages 529-529
Paleogeographic Significance of Tempestites and Periodites....Pages 531-536