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C. G. St. C.
Kendall
Botryoidal Aragonite
Marine Cement
Botryoidal Aragonite
Marine Cement
Isopachus Marine
Aragonite Cement
Renalcis Drape
Internal Sediment
Renalcis Drape
Renalcis Drape
Amphipora Core
GEOL 751 Lecture 6: Cementation &
Diagnesis
Eniwetok – Pleistocene
Brchiopod Core
Isopachus
Marine Cement
Renalcis Drape
C. G. St. C. Kendall
Isopachus
Marine Cement
C. G. St. C. Kendall
Meniscus Cement
C. G. St. C. Kendall
C. G. St. C. Kendall
C. G. St. C. Kendall
C. G. St. C. Kendall
C. G. St. C. Kendall
C. G. St. C. Kendall
C. G. St. C. Kendall
Tangential (A)
flattened (B)
concavo-convex (C)
sutured (D) (after Bruce Railsback)
GEOL 751 Lecture 6: Cementation &
Diagnesis
Stylolites
After Bruce
Railsback
Lecture Conclusions
Photosynthesis, warm temperatures & low pressures in shallow water
enhance carbonate distribution
Carbonate cementation takes place in the depositional setting
Carbonate cementation takes place from water pumped by tides, waves and
evaporation of sea water
CCD controls dissolution of carbonate and its recirculation as a cement
Most diagenesis, dolomitization, & cementation of carbonates takes place at
the near surface & trace elements can be used in this determination
Carbonate cementation and diagenesis can take place through the burial
cycle
Mineralogy & fabric of cements varies with setting and mineralogy of the
substrate
Stylolites develop through burial & solution/compaction