Quaternary Carbonate and Evaporite Sedimentary Facies and Their Ancient Analogues (ePub)

This book is part of the href="http://www.sedimentologists.org/">International Association
of Sedimentologists (IAS) Special Publications.

The Special Publications from the IAS are a set of thematic
volumes edited by specialists on subjects of central interest to
sedimentologists. Papers are reviewed and printed to the same high
standards as those published in the journal href="http://www.iasnet.org/publications/sed.php">Sedimentology
and several of these volumes have become standard works of
reference.
This volume commemorates the eclectic research of Douglas James
Shearman into evaporites, which was initiated by his studies of the
prograding UAE coastal sabkhas or salt flats that incorporate
evaporite minerals which displace and replace earlier carbonate
sediments. His subsequent proselytization of the study of ancient
evaporites in sedimentary sections all over the world led to
fundamental advances in our understanding of arid zone carbonate
sedimentology.

The papers presented here are based on presentations made in Abu
Dhabi, UAE 12-14th October 2004 and 7th -8th November 2006.
They provide a retrospective from the 1960's and 70's of Holocene
evaporites and carbonates, recapturing Shearman's contribution by
revisiting the Holocene coastal evaporite and carbonate sediments
of the Arabian/Persian Gulf from Abu Dhabi, Qatar, and Oman.

The first set of papers considers these sediments from the
perspective of their coastal geomorphology, sedimentary character
and their geochemistry. Later papers examine the significance of
these settings in the ancient geological section world-wide,
including examples from the Mesozoic-Cenozoic of the Moroccan
Atlantic margin and the Upper Jurassic Arab Formation of the
Arabian Gulf.