Rare earth element geochemistry of scleractinian coral skeleton during meteoric diagenesis: A sequence through neomorphism of aragonite to calcite

Sedimentology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1433-1463

  Webb, Gregory E ^a   Nothdurft, Luke D ^a   Kamber, Balz S ^b   Kloprogge, J T ^a   Zhao, Jina Xin ^c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbonate diagenesis; Meteoric diagenesis; Neomorphism; Rare earth elements; Scleractinian coral; Trace element geochemistry

Indexed keywords

ARAGONITE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CALCITE; CARBONATE ROCK; CORAL; DEGRADATION; DIAGENESIS; LIMESTONE; ORGANIC MATTER; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; PRESERVATION; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 67651085226     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2008.01041.x     Document Type: Article

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