Variable rates of phosphate uptake by shallow marine carbonate sediments: Mechanisms and ecological significance

1994 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
KarenJ. McGlathery ◽  
Roxanne Marino ◽  
RobertW. Howarth
Keyword(s):  
Phosphate Uptake ◽  
Carbonate Sediments ◽  
Ecological Significance ◽  
Shallow Marine ◽  
Marine Carbonate

Effects of microalgal communities on reflectance spectra of carbonate sediments in subtidal optically shallow marine environments

2003 ◽  
Vol 48 (1part2) ◽  
pp. 535-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Carol Stephens ◽  
Eric M. Louchard ◽  
R. Pamela Reid ◽  
Robert A. Maffione
Keyword(s):  
Reflectance Spectra ◽  
Carbonate Sediments ◽  
Marine Environments ◽  
Shallow Marine

Dactyloidites ottoi (Geinitz, 1849) in Bahamian Pleistocene Carbonates: A Shallowest-marine Indicator

2021 ◽  
pp. SP522-2021-69
Author(s):  
H. Allen Curran ◽  
Bosiljka Glumac
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Carbonate Sediments ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
Shallow Marine ◽  
Fine Detail ◽  
Plant Remains ◽  
Mis 5E ◽  
Deposit Feeding ◽  
First Time ◽  
Host Sediment

AbstractThe rosetted trace fossil Dactyloidites ottoi (Geinitz, 1849) is reported and described for the first time from late Pleistocene (MIS 5e) carbonates of the Bahama Archipelago in shallowing-upward, shelly calcarenites from Great Inagua and Great and Little Exuma islands. The distinctive, fan-shaped D. ottoi specimens from the Bahamas, while not preserved in fine detail and not revealing a shaft, compare favourably in shape and size with specimens from other localities around the world, including the oldest well-documented specimens from the Jurassic of Argentina. D. ottoi is interpreted as a fodinichnion formed by the activity of a deposit-feeding worm, probably a polychaete, consuming marine-plant remains within host sediment. The late Pleistocene palaeodepositional environment of these carbonate sediments is interpreted as within the lower foreshore-upper shoreface zone in full marine, tropical waters. This discovery of D. ottoi marks an addition to the Bahamian shallow-marine ichnocoenose within the Skolithos ichnofacies.

Trace Fossils in Quaternary, Bahamian-Style Carbonate Environments: The Modern to Fossil Transition

1992 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 105-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Allen Curran
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Record ◽  
Trace Fossils ◽  
Subtidal Zone ◽  
Carbonate Sediments ◽  
Shallow Marine ◽  
Shallow Subtidal ◽  
Dominant Process ◽  
Burrowing Activity

Tracemaking organisms are common and diverse components of the fauna and flora of tropical, shallow-marine and coastal carbonate environments. In the shallow subtidal zone, the burrowing activity of callianassid shrimp commonly is the dominant process in the modification of original depositional fabrics (Tudhope and Scoffin, 1984; Tedesco and Wanless, 1991). Both borers and burrowers have great potential to leave their mark in tropical carbonate sediments and rocks and to become part of the fossil record.

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