Holocene cementation along the central Texas coast.

dc.acquisition-srcen_US
dc.call-noen_US
dc.contract-noen_US
dc.contributor.authorWeiss, C.P.en_US
dc.contributor.authorWilkinson, B.H.en_US
dc.contributor.otherSedimentary Petroleum.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-15T17:03:04Z
dc.date.available2010-02-15T17:03:04Z
dc.date.issued1988en_US
dc.degreeen_US
dc.descriptionp.468-478.en_US
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dc.description.abstractSandy biosparite and shelly biomicrite gravel thinly covers a significant portion of the inner shelf from the Rio Grande to Sabine Pass, covering an area of at least 3,000 km2, and similar gravel is also a conspicuous component of beach sediment along rapidly eroding Holocene deltaic headlands of the central Texas coast. Although gravel clasts occur in a normal marine setting, most include shells of brackish to freshwater fluvial-deltaic and estuarine molluscs. Contained cements record lithification in two distinctly different diagenetic settings. Biosparites contain intergranular and intragranular cement that precipitated from meteoric fluids during subaerial exposure, whereas biomicrite cements precipitated in the presence of marine and marine-derived fluids, possibly mixed with connate fluids from depth. Most meteoric cement consists of equant crystals of low-Mg calcite spar precipitated during the partial dissolution and calcitization of molluscan aragonite.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://gbic.tamug.edu/request.htmen_US
dc.geo-codeTexas coasten_US
dc.geo-codeRio Grandeen_US
dc.geo-codeSabine Passen_US
dc.historyen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/21349
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dc.locationTAMUG periodical collectionen_US
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dc.placeen_US
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dc.relation.ispartofseries3557.00en_US
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dc.scaleen_US
dc.seriesen_US
dc.subjectHoloceneen_US
dc.subjectsedimentsen_US
dc.subjecterosionen_US
dc.subjectsediment compositionen_US
dc.subjectdeltaic featuresen_US
dc.subjectdeltaic depositsen_US
dc.subjectfluvial featuresen_US
dc.subjectfluvial depositsen_US
dc.subjectshellsen_US
dc.titleHolocene cementation along the central Texas coast.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.universityen_US
dc.vol-issue58(3)en_US

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