Marine carbonate factories: review and update

JJG Reijmer - Sedimentology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The carbonate factories model, as defined at the beginning of the century, provides a
subdivision of marine carbonate sediment production‐systems based on the style of …

Refinement of Miocene sea level and monsoon events from the sedimentary archive of the Maldives (Indian Ocean)

C Betzler, GP Eberli, T Lüdmann, J Reolid… - Progress in Earth and …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 359 cored sediments
from eight borehole locations in the carbonate platform of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean …

The origin of modern atolls: Challenging Darwin's deeply ingrained theory

AW Droxler, SJ Jorry - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2021 - annualreviews.org
In 1842, Darwin identified three types of reefs: fringing reefs, which are directly attached to
volcanic islands; barrier reefs, which are separated from volcanic islands by lagoons; and …

Characteristics of modern carbonate contourite drifts

GP Eberli, C Betzler - Sedimentology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Carbonate environments inhabit the realm of the surface, intermediate and deep currents of
the ocean circulation where they produce and continuously deliver material which is …

[HTML][HTML] Stable and radiogenic strontium isotopes trace the composition and diagenetic alteration of remnant glacial seawater

MM Wood, CL Blättler, A Kolevica, A Eisenhauer… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2024 - Elsevier
A remnant of glacial seawater preserved in the pore fluids of sediment cores from the
Maldives Inner Sea provided an opportunity to investigate the stable strontium isotopic …

Expedition 349 summary

CF Li, J Lin, DK Kulhanek, T Williams, R Bao, A Briais… - 2015 - boris.unibe.ch
C.-F. Li, J. Lin, DK Kulhanek, T. Williams, R. Bao, A. Briais, EA Brown, Y. Chen, PD Clift, FS
Colwell, KA Dadd, W.-W. Ding, I. Hernández-Almeida, X.-L. Huang, S. Hyun, T. Jiang, AAP …

The effect of diagenesis on rare earth element geochemistry of the Quaternary carbonates at an isolated coral atoll in the South China Sea

Y Luo, G Li, W Xu, J Liu, J Cheng, J Zhao, W Yan - Sedimentary Geology, 2021 - Elsevier
The redox state of ancient seawater is crucial to understanding the variations in atmospheric
and oceanic conditions in the geological past. Rare earth elements+ Y (REY) in marine …

Bioclastic bottom‐current deposits of a Devonian contourite terrace: Facies variability and depositional architecture (Tafilalt Platform, Morocco)

H Hüneke, MA Gibb, O Mayer, JF Kniest… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The study examines bioclastic carbonate contourites that arise from the broad spectrum of
bottom‐current related sedimentary processes ranging from deposition to erosion. The result …

Wind variability over the northern Indian Ocean during the past 4 million years–Insights from coarse aeolian dust (IODP exp. 359, site U1467, Maldives)

S Lindhorst, C Betzler, D Kroon - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2019 - Elsevier
The lithogenic fraction of carbonate drift sediments from IODP Exp. 359 Site U1467
(Maldives) provides a unique record of atmospheric dust transport over the northern Indian …

A two million year record of low-latitude aridity linked to continental weathering from the Maldives

T Kunkelova, SJA Jung, ES De Leau, N Odling… - Progress in Earth and …, 2018 - Springer
Indian-Asian monsoon has oscillated between warm/wet interglacial periods and cool/dry
glacial periods with periodicities closely linked to variations in Earth's orbital parameters …