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Professor Christopher George St. Clement Kendall - EWS 304 kendall@sc 777.2410

GEOL 751: Carbonate Petrology University of South Carolina Spring 2005. Professor Christopher George St. Clement Kendall - EWS 304 kendall@sc.edu 777.2410. Shark Bay, Western Australia - Carbonates.

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Professor Christopher George St. Clement Kendall - EWS 304 kendall@sc 777.2410

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  1. GEOL 751: Carbonate PetrologyUniversity of South CarolinaSpring 2005 Professor Christopher George St. Clement Kendall - EWS 304 kendall@sc.edu 777.2410 GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  2. Shark Bay, Western Australia- Carbonates Intertidal & Subtidal Stromatolite Heads, Ooids , Sea Grass Banks & Carbonate Sills, Cement Prone Shelves.

  3. Lecture Series Overview • Carbonate sediments • Hierarchies and Geometry of Carbonates • Bahamas sediments • Florida sediments • Shark Bay • Ordovician of Kentucky and Virginia • Miocene of Mallorca etc GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  4. Lecture Outline • Location • Open Marine Sea Grass Bank – Bioclastic Body • Carbonate Sills • Metahaline “Lagoon”: Useless Loop • Hypersaline “Lagoon”: Depuch Loop • Hypersaline “Lagoon”: Hamlin Pool • Stromatolite Heads and Ooid Terrace • Lake McLeod: Below sea level - Evaporite/carbonate factory GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  5. Shark Bay -Western Australia Shark Bay GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  6. Shark Bay -Western Australia Shark Bay GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  7. Shark Bay -Western Australia Shark Bay GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  8. Shark Bay -Western Australia Shark Bay GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  9. Shark Bay -Seagrass Banks-Sills-Hypersaline Pools GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  10. Shark Bay -Geography GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  11. Shark Bay - Western Australia Pleistocene Sediments GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  12. Shark Bay -Western Australia Pleistocene Sediments GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  13. Shark Bay -Western Australia Pleistocene Sediments GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  14. Shark Bay -Western Australia Pleistocene Sediments GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  15. Shark Bay -Western Australia Pleistocene Sediments GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  16. Shark Bay -Western Australia Washover Channel GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  17. Shark Bay -Western Australia Salt Scarring GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  18. Shark Bay -Western Australia Emu GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  19. Shark Bay -Western Australia-Spring Time Brian Logan GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  20. Shark Bay - Western Australia Kangeroo GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  21. Shark Bay - Western Australia Blind Inlet GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  22. Shark Bay - Western Australia Blind Inlet GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  23. Blind Inlet-Shark Bay- Western Australia Spur & Groove in Beach Rocks GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  24. Lecture Outline • Location • Open Marine Sea Grass Bank – Bioclastic Body • Carbonate Sills • Metahaline “Lagoon”: Useless Loop • Hypersaline “Lagoon”: Depuch Loop • Hypersaline “Lagoon”: Hamlin Pool • Stromatolite Heads and Ooid Terrace • Lake McLeod: Below sea level - Evaporite/carbonate factory GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  25. Wooramel Bank • Open Marine Sea Grass Bank – Bioclastic Body • Lens like cross section • Updip Evaporite Tidal Flat • Tidal channel complex down dip • Luxuriant grass supports epiphytes building bank 7ft /year seaward into 30 ft water Grass Bank GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  26. Wooramel Bank • Open Marine Sea Grass Bank – Bioclastic Body • Lens like cross section • Updip Evaporite Tidal Flat • Tidal channel complex down dip • Luxuriant grass supports epiphytes building bank 7ft /year seaward into 30 ft water Grass Bank GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  27. WooramelBank Grass Bank GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  28. Freycinet Bank GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  29. GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  30. Wooramel Bank • Open Marine Sea Grass Bank – Bioclastic Body • Lens like cross section • Updip Evaporite Tidal Flat • Tidal channel complex down dip • Luxuriant grass supports epiphytes building bank 7ft /year seaward into 30 ft water Grass Bank GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  31. Wooramel Bank • Open Marine Sea Grass Bank – Bioclastic Body • Lens like cross section • Updip Evaporite Tidal Flat • Tidal channel complex down dip • Luxuriant grass supports epiphytes building bank 7ft /year seaward into 30 ft water Grass Bank GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  32. Wooramel Bank • Open Marine Sea Grass Bank – Bioclastic Body • Lens like cross section • Updip Evaporite Tidal Flat • Tidal channel complex down dip • Luxuriant grass supports epiphytes building bank 7ft /year seaward into 30 ft water Grass Bank GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  33. Wooramel Bank Grass Bank GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  34. Gascoyne River Delta GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  35. Wooramel River Delta GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  36. Wooramel Bank – Intertidal Flats GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  37. Wooramel Bank – Shark Bay GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  38. Wooramel Bank Grass Bank GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  39. Wooramel Bank Grass Bank GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  40. Wooramel Bank Levee GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  41. Wooramel Bank Grass Bank GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  42. Wooramel Bank Grasses GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  43. Wooramel Bank – W. Australia Sea Snake GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  44. Wooramel Bank Grasses GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  45. Lecture Outline • Location • Open Marine Sea Grass Bank – Bioclastic Body • Carbonate Sills • Metahaline “Lagoon”: Useless Loop • Hypersaline “Lagoon”: Depuch Loop • Hypersaline “Lagoon”: Hamlin Pool • Stromatolite Heads and Ooid Terrace • Lake McLeod: Below sea level - Evaporite/carbonate factory GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  46. Shark Bay -Western Australia Faure Sill GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  47. HamlinPool GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  48. Faure Sill Grasses GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  49. Faure Sill GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

  50. Faure Sill Grasses GEOL 751 Lecture 5: Shark Bay Carbonates

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