Perspectives in Carbonate Geology: A Tribute to the Career of Robert Nathan Ginsburg

This special publication Perspectives in Carbonate Geology is a collection of papers most of which were presented at a symposium to honor the 80th birthday of Bob Ginsburg at the meeting of Geological Society of America in Salt Lake City in 2005. The majority of the papers in this publication are connected with the study of modern carbonate sediments. Bob Ginsburg pioneered the concept of comparative sedimentology – that is using the modern to compare to and relate to and understand the ancient. These studies are concerned with Bob′s areas of passion: coral reefs and sea–level; submarine cementation and formation of beach rock; surface sediments on Great Bahama Bank and other platforms; origin of ooids; coastal sediments; formation of stromatolites; impact of storms on sediments; and the formation of dolomite. The remainder of the papers apply the study of modern environments and sedimentary processes to ancient sediments.
 
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SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS
40           Analogue and Numerical Modelling of Sedimentary Systems
From Understanding to Prediction
Edited by P. de Boer, G. Postma, K. van der Zwan, P. Burgess and P. Kukla
2008, 336 pages, 172 illustrations
39           Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products
                Edited by M.J. Hambrey, P. Christoffersen, N.F. Glasser and B. Hubbard
                2007, 416 pages, 181 illustrations
38           Sedimentary Processes, Environments and Basins
                 A Tribute to Peter Friend
                Edited by G. Nichols, E. Williams and C. Paola
                2007, 648 pages, 329 illustrations
37           Continental Margin Sedimentation
From Sediment Transport to Sequence Stratigraphy
Edited by C.A. Nittrouer, J.A. Austin, M.E. Field, J.H. Kravitz, J.P.M. Syvitski and P.L. Wiberg
2007, 549 pages, 178 illustrations
36           Braided Rivers
                Process, Deposits, Ecology and Management
                Edited by G.H. Sambrook Smith, J.L. Best, C.S. Bristow and G.E. Petts
                2006, 390 pages, 197 illustrations
35           Fluvial Sedimentology VII
                Edited by M.D. Blum, S.B. Marriott and S.F. Leclair
                2005, 589 pages, 319 illustrations
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4              Sandstone Diagenesis: Recent and Ancient
                Edited by S.D. Burley and R.H. Worden
                2003, 648 pages, 223 illustrations
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Spis treści:
1. Depth and species–related patterns of Holocene reef accretion in the Caribbean and western Atlantic: a critical assessment of existing models.
2. The mystique of beachrock.
3. A reevaluation of facies on Great Bahama Bank I: new facies maps of western Great Bahama Bank.
4. A reevaluation of facies on Great Bahama Bank II: variations in the δ13C, δ18O and mineralogy of surface sediments.
5. Stable isotopes of carbon and oxygen in modern sediments of carbonate platforms, barrier reefs, atolls and ramps: patterns and implications.
6. A tale of two storms: an integrated field, remote sensing, and modelling study examining the impact of hurricanes Frances and Jeanne on carbonate systems, Bahamas.
7. Rapid recycling and deposition of organic–rich carbonates within the coastal complex of southwest Florida.
8. The paradoxical occurrence of oolitic limestone on the eastern islands of Great Bahama Bank: where do the ooids come from?.
9. Calcareous epiphyte production in cool–water carbonate depositional environments, southern Australia.
10. Microbes versus metazoans as dominant reef builders: insights from modern marine environments in Exuma Cays, Bahamas.
11. Microbial dolomite precipitation under aerobic conditions: results from Brejo do Espinho Lagoon (Brazil) and culture experiments.
12. Karst subbasins and their relationship to cross–Florida Platform transport of Tertiary siliciclastics.
13. Controls on facies mosaics of carbonate platforms: a case study from the Oxfordian of the Swiss Jura.
14. On the allocyclic interpretation of the ‘Latemar Cycles’ (Middle Triassic, the Dolomites, Italy) and implications for high–frequency cyclostratigraphic forcing.
15. Phylloid al gal mounds in the Paradox Basin, southwestern USA: an alternative to the in situ constructional growth model?.
16. The Cincinnati Arch: a stationary peripheral bulge during the Late Ordovician.
17. Reinterpreting a Proterozoic enigma: Conophyton – Jacutophyton stromatolite reefs of the Mesoproterozoic Atar Group, Mauritania.
18. Layering – What does it mean?.
19. Falling–stage systems tracts in tropical carbonate rocks.
20. Early load–induced fracturing in a prograding carbonate margin.
21. Markov models for linking environments and facies in space and time.
22. Evaluating validity and reliability in high–resolution stratigraphic analysis