Miocene lacustrine algal reefs--southwestern Snake River Plain, Idaho
dc.contributor.author | Straccia, Frances G. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Wilkinson, Bruce H. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Smith, Gerald R. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-10T13:46:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-10T13:46:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1990-04 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Straccia, Frances G., Wilkinson, Bruce H., Smith, Gerald R. (1990/04)."Miocene lacustrine algal reefs--southwestern Snake River Plain, Idaho." Sedimentary Geology 67(1-2): 7-23. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/28624> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V6X-48BM574-KV/2/fdc116cb468fe3f2b10807eb1b725f26 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/28624 | |
dc.description.abstract | The Hot Spring limestone is a shallow-water algal carbonate within a late Tertiary transgressive lacustrine sequence exposed in the southwestern Snake River Plain. This 5 m thick lensoid sequence crops out over an 80 km2 area that closely approximates original areal extent of nearshore carbonate accumulation. Reefal bodies consist of closely packed algal cylinders, several decimeters in height, each of which includes a dense laminated carbonate wall surrounding porous digitate carbonate that radiates outward and upward from one or more hollow tubes. These coalesce upsection into separate vertical columns several meters in diameter. Moderately well-sorted terrigenous and molluscan debris deposited between columns during growth indicates these structures were resistant to wave erosion and, therefore, were true reefs. Thick rings of littoral carbonate surrounding the upper walls of each column record the final stages of reef development.Structural attributes exhibited by these Miocene carbonate bodies are also common to a number of Tertiary and Quaternary algal buildups reported from other lacustrine settings. Although features within the Hot Spring limestone are complex in gross morphology and structural detail, both columnar reefs and algal cylinders display little variation in size, shape, or internal structure between areas of varying water depth and wave energy, thus reflecting the importance of biological processes as well as physical processes during reef development. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.title | Miocene lacustrine algal reefs--southwestern Snake River Plain, Idaho | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Geology and Earth Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/28624/1/0000438.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0037-0738(90)90024-N | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Sedimentary Geology | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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