Carbonate Platform Slopes - A Record of Changing Conditions The Pliocene of the Bahamas /

• Main Author: Westphal, Hildegard (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1998.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 75
• Subjects: Geology.; Sedimentology.

Periplatform slope sediments from the Bahamas serve as an example for a small-scale sedimentologic record of environmental changes. Carbonate platforms react sensitively to sea-level fluctuations. Therefore, sediments deposited on the slope during lowstands differ in composition from highstand depos...

Table of Contents:

• Study area and material
• Methods
• Primary signals - Sediment input
• Secondary signals - Diagenesis
• Outlook.