Marine microbialites serve as robust seawater rare earth element and yttrium (REE+Y) proxies through many intervals of Earth history, but questions remain about the partitioning of REEs into different coeval carbonate phases, potential syn-depositional contaminants and elemental redistribution during diagenesis. Microbial carbonates, cements and background sediments were analysed for stable iso...

Ketzer, J. 2002. Diagenesis and Sequence Stratigraphy. an integrated approach to constrain evolution of reservoir quality in sandstones. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 762. 30 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91-554-5439-9 Diagenesis and sequence stratigraphy have been formally treated as two separate disciplines in s...

Taphonomic processes affecting bone post mortem are important in forensic, archaeological and palaeontological investigations. In this study, the application of tissue microarray (TMA) analysis to a sample of femoral bone specimens from 20 exhumed individuals of known period of burial and age at death is described. TMA allows multiplexing of subsamples, permitting standardized comparative analy...

Dolomite or calcite, quartz and kaolinite in various proportions were reacted at 250-300~ temperatures and pressures up to 90 bars in a hydrous environment. Reactions which approached completion produced talc, calcite, montmorillonite, anorthite (both metastable hexagonal and stable triclinic polymorphs) and the rare Ca-zeolite, garronite. These reactions are applicable to diagenesis, low-grade...

Carbonate rocks are composed of carbonate minerals that chemically formed in the form solutions, and there organisms involved their formation. The limestone found around Lake Limboto is very interesting, because water lake freshwater while characteristic a marine environment. Diagenesis natural process sedimentary occurs from initial deposition until it reaches limit metamorphism will be formed...

Diagenetic dissolution of magnetic minerals has been widely observed in organic-rich sediments from many environments. Organic-rich sediments from the eastern Mediterranean Sea (sapropels), recovered during Leg 160 of the Ocean Drilling Program, reveal a surprising catalogue of magnetic properties. Sapropels, from all sites studied across the eastern Mediterranean Sea, are strongly magnetic and...

1 For copyright reasons several figures are excluded from this eprint version. For access to these, readers are referred to the published version of this manuscript or the cited papers. Abstract The hypothesis that reducing conditions exist in localized zones of high organic matter, termed microniches, was first suggested over a century ago, but only relatively recently have high-resolution tec...

The Sa’adi Formation is a part of the late Cretaceous period in Santonian-Campanian stage that represents potential hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir across many oilfields Mesopotamian Basin, South Iraq. was divided into two main parts as stratigraphy sequence. It consists chalky limestone with argillaceous upper and marly lower part. considered an important stratigraphic unit marked by petroleum s...