Carbonate Systems During the Olicocene-Miocene Climatic Transition / International Association Of Sedimentologists Series (ePub)

The Oligocene and Miocene Epochs comprise the most important phases
in the Cenozoic global cooling that led from a greenhouse to an
icehouse Earth.

Recent major advances in the understanding and time-resolution
of climate events taking place at this time, as well as the
proliferation of studies on Oligocene and Miocene
shallow-water/neritic carbonate systems, invite us to re-evaluate
the significance of these carbonate systems in the context of
changes in climate and Earth surface processes. Carbonate systems,
because of a wide dependence on the ecological requirements of
organisms producing the sediment, are sensitive recorders of
changes in environmental conditions on the Earth surface.

The papers included in this Special Publication address the
dynamic evolution of carbonate systems deposited during the
Oligocene and Miocene in the context on climatic and Earth surfaces
processes focusing on climatic trends and controls over
deposition; temporal changes in carbonate producers and
palaeoecology; carbonate terminology; facies; processes and
environmental parameters (including water temperature and
production depth profiles); carbonate producers and their spatial
and temporal variability; and tectonic controls over
architecture.

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.