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Downward development of overgrowths from echinoderm fragments in a submarine environment
Author(s) -
GÖRÜR NACI
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
sedimentology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.494
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1365-3091
pISSN - 0037-0746
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3091.1979.tb00932.x
Subject(s) - micrite , geology , echinoderm , paleontology , arenite , tectonophysics , sedimentary depositional environment , trace fossil , geochemistry , structural basin , facies
Fragments of echinoderms in the Karaisali Limestone (Miocene) of the Adana Basin, Turkey, show large syntaxial overgrowths which are restricted mostly to their undersides, whilst the upper surfaces are covered by micrite. Although this pendant style of the overgrowths is reminiscent of vadose zone ‘gravitational cement', they appear to have formed in the open voids of sediments in the marine environment, simultaneously with, as well as after, the internal deposition of micrite.