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SHELF ENVIRONMENT
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SALAH UD DIN WAZIR
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Definition
Carbonate Shelf Environment. Inner shelf -nearshore, shallow water to
subaerial. Middle shelf - , subtidal zone out to shelf
break. Outer shelf - narrow zone including shelf
break.
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Diagnostic Features of Inner Shelf.
Tectonic setting. Restricted to clear, shallow, tropical to subtropical. Geometry. Thin, laterally continuous beds over 1000’s sq km of shelf. Sequence. Shallowing upword – lagoonal mud to beach sand. Sedimentology. Algal lamination, stromatolite, mudcrack, tidal channel, dolomitization,
evaporates.
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Introduction
Inner shelf environments can be well defined geographically in modern settings.
In the geologic record, the term is used for low energy, shallow-water carbonates.
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What is a restricted shelf?
Defined as any part of a continental or island shelf with slow water circulation resulting in:
Abnormal salinity
Oxygen depletion
Nutrient depletion
Temperature extremes
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With less stratigraphic resolution, restriction may be inferred from impoverishment of fauna or lithofacies.
Presence of muddy sediment containing: Organic matter Pyrite Evaporites
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Diagnostic Criteria (SBM)
No single criterion is diagnostic for such environment.
The most reliable guides of diagnosis are sequences and transitions.
Lateral transitions. Vertical sequences
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Vertical sequences are used to infer lateral relations
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Biota is an important clue to restricted settings.
Typically low faunal diversity.
Dwarf fauna.
Aberrant growth forms are clues of adverse conditions.
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Abundance of burrows is characteristic, but not diagnostic.
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Non-skeletal grain composition is not very diagnostic, but fecal pellets and peloids are characteristic sedimentary particles.
They may comprise the entire sediment.
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Grapestone aggregates and small intraclasts are also common.
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Minerology is not indicative of depositional environment.
Evaporites. Dolomites.
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Diagnostic Criteria (scoffin) Bioturbated sand and silt substrates
supporting epifauna and infauna
Mollusks, benthic forams and echinoids
Contribute coarse and fine grains to a poorlysorted, mixed terrigenous and calcareoussediments
Carbonates are 40 to 60% of sediments
Sand and gravel size with no mud
Dominant mineralogy: calcite (50%), aragoniteand Mg calcite (25% each)
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Setting
Lateral Facies Relationships
Most reliable clue in restricted shelfrecognition
Seaward or windward deposits mayproduce restrictions
Landward or leeward deposits may recordthe restricted conditions more dramatically
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Islands formed bydepositional orerosionaltopography ofcontemporary orearlier depositionalepisodes may alsocontribute torestriction
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Restricted settings may also originate withoutsignificant physiographic barriers
Broad expanses of shallow water (epeiricseas) may damp out tidal and wave energy
Evaporation leading to hypersalinity
Rainfall and runoff causing dilution
Strong seasonal climate fluctuation influencingsalinity
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Restricted settings may also originate withoutsignificant physiographic barriers
Broad expanses of shallow water (epeiricseas) may damp out tidal and wave energy
Evaporation leading to hypersalinity
Rainfall and runoff causing dilution
Strong seasonal climate fluctuation influencingsalinity
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Shallow water, restricted environmentsdevelop further leeward or landward
Covering vast expanses
Little facies differentiation
Lateral transitions are very gradual andfluctuate in position with time
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Microfacies Characterized by a limited number of
grain types:
Carbonate or terrigenous mud Fecal pellets Peloids Grapestones Limited range of skeletal components
Benthic forams, ostracods, gastropods, oysters, algal oncoids, serpulid worms and brachiopods
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Indicators of slow accumulation ratesare extensive:
Micritization
Boring
Metal-oxide staining
Encrustation
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Typical standard microfacies (SMF)types:
Grapestone-peloid-intraclast grainstone
Laminated to bioturbated pellet mudstone
Oncoid wackestone or floatstone
Foraminiferal or dasyclad algal grainstonewith peloids
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Sequences Shallowing upward sequences
common Series of cycles Supratidal – unfossiliferous, laminated,
mudcracked, dolomitic, pelletal carbonatedmudstone
Intertidal – sparsely fossiliferous, pelletalcarbonate mudstone interbedded with skeletalcalcarenite
Subtidal – fossiliferous, pelletal carbonatemudstones interbedded with stromatoporoids
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Sedimentary StructuresBurrow