Table Of ContentSEDIMENTOLOGY
The Journal of the
International Association of Sedimentologists
edited by M. R. Talbot, S. D. Burley
and C. Busby-Spera
VOLUME 38
1991
BLACKWELL SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
OXFORD LONDON EDINBURGH
BOSTON MELBOURNE PARIS’ BERLIN VIENNA
© 1991 Sedimentology
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Contents
NUMBER 1
Statement by Incoming Editors
B. M. Besly and J. D. Collinson. Volcanic and tectonic controls of lacustrine and alluvial
sedimentation in the Stephanian coal-bearing sequence of the Malpas-Sort Basin, Catalonian
Pyrenees
R. W. Simm, P. P. E. Weaver, R. B. Kidd and E. J. W. Jones. Late Quaternary mass movement on
the lower continental rise and abyssal plain off Western Sahara
41 Jonathan Kaufman, Gilbert N. Hanson and William J. Meyers. Dolomitization of the Devonian Swan
Hills Formation, Rosevear Field, Alberta, Canada
67 Robert H. Goldstein. Stable isotope signatures associated with paleosols, Pennsylvanian Holder
Formation, New Mexico
79 I. C. Scotchman. The geochemistry of concretions from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation of southern
and eastern England
107 Henry S. Chafetz, Patrick F. Rush and Nancy M. Utech. Microenvironmental controls on mineralogy
and habit of CaCO, precipitates: an example from an active travertine system
127 P. Bernier, Ch. Gaillard, J. C. Gall, G. Barale, J. P. Bourseau, E. Buffetaut and S. Wenz. Morphogenetic
impact of microbial mats on surface structures of Kimmeridgian micritic limestones (Cerin, France)
137 Koji Minoura, Shu Nakaya and Atsushi Takemura. Origin of manganese carbonates in Jurassic red
shale, central Japan
153 Kevin Purvis. Stoss-side mud-drapes: deposits of interdune pond margins
DISCUSSIONS/REPLIES
157 R. J. Loch. Bedload transport of mud as pedogenic aggregates in modern and ancient rivers
158 Brian R. Rust and Gerald C. Nanson. (Reply)
N. J. Clifford, J. McClatchey and J. R. French. Measurements of turbulence in the benthic boundary
layer over a gravel bed and Comparison between acoustic measurements and predictions of bedload
transport of marine gravels
J. J. Williams, P. D. Thorne and A. D. Heathershaw. (Reply)
Jan H. Van den Berg. Comparison between acoustic measurements and predictions of the bedload
transport of marine gravels
Jon J. Williams, Peter D. Thorne and Anthony D. Heathershaw. (Reply)
Book reviews
Presentation of the Sorby Medal
Report of the General Secretary
Report of the Treasurer
Report of the Editors
Forthcoming papers
NUMBER 2
Philip M. Barnes and Keith B. Lewis. Sheet slides and rotational failures on a convergent margin: the
Kidnappers Slide, New Zealand
Wolfgang Blendinger. Upper Triassic (Norian) cephalopod limestones of the Hallstatt-type, Oman
Luis Pomar. Reef geometries, erosion surfaces and high-frequency sea-level changes, upper Miocene
Reef Complex, Mallorca, Spain
Julian E. Andrews, Michael S. Turner, Ghulam Nabi and Baruch Spiro. The anatomy of an early
Dinantian terraced floodplain: palaeo-environment and early diagenesis
C. M. Bell. The relationships between sedimentary structures, transport directions and dune types
in Mesozoic aeolian sandstones, Atacama Region, Chile
Tapan Chakraborty. Sedimentology of a Proterozoic erg: the Venkatpur Sandstone, Pranhita—
Godavari Valley, south India
Noel P. James and Yvonne Bone. Origin of a cool-water, Oligo-Miocene deep shelf limestone, Eucla
Platform, southern Australia
Joachim E. Amthor and Gerald M. Friedman. Dolomite-rock textures and secondary porosity
development in Ellenberger Group carbonates (Lower Ordovician), west Texas and southeastern
New Mexico
Steven W. Squyres, David W. Andersen, Susan S. Nedell and Robert A. Wharton, Jr. Lake Hoare,
Antarctica: sedimentology through a thick perennial ice cover
Forthcoming papers
NUMBER 3
E. L. Winterer, C. V. Metzler and M. Sarti. Neptunian dykes and associated breccias (Southern
Alps, Italy and Switzerland): role of gravity sliding in open and closed systems
Francis J. Hein, Gregory A. Robb, Andrew C. Wolberg and Frederick J. Longstaffe. Facies descriptions
and associations in ancient reworked (?transgressive) shelf sandstones: Cambrian and Cretaceous
examples
Mark H. Scheihing and Gerard C. Gaynor. The shelf sand-plume model: a critique
Roger Higgs. The Bude Formation (lower Westphalian), SW England: siliciclastic shelf
sedimentation in a large equatorial lake
T. S. McCarthy, I. G. Stanistreet and B. Cairncross. The sedimentary dynamics of active fluvial
channels on the Okavango fan, Botswana
Paul D. Komar and Paul A. Carling. Grain sorting in gravel-bed streams and the choice of particle
sizes for flow-competence evaluations
Grzegorz Pienkowski. Eustatically-controlled sedimentation in the Hettangian-Sinemurian (Early
Jurassic) of Poland and Sweden
Xiang Yang Chen, James M. Bowler and John W. Magee. Aeolian landscapes in central Australia:
gypsiferous and quartz dune environments from Lake Amadeus
K. Purvis and V. P. Wright. Calcretes related to phreatophytic vegetation from the Middle Triassic
Otter Sandstone of South West England
Forthcoming papers
NUMBER 4
Chris Paola and Leon Borgman. Reconstructing random topography from preserved stratification
P. G. DeCelles, M. B. Gray, K. D. Ridgway, R. B. Cole, D. A. Pivnik, N. Pequera and P. Srivastava.
Controls on synorogenic alluvial-fan architecture, Beartooth Conglomerate (Palaeocene), Wyoming
and Montana
A. M. Smith and T. R. Mason. Pleistocene, multiple-growth, lacustrine oncoids from the Poacher’s
Point Formation, Etosha Pan, northern Namibia
Arthur H. Saller and Clyde H. Moore, Jr. Geochemistry of meteoric calcite cements in some
Pleistocene limestones
M. Hennebert and A. Lees. Environmental gradients in carbonate sediments and rocks detected by
correspondence analysis: examples from the Recent of Norway and the Dinantian of southwest
England
Gordon M. Walkden and David O. Williams. The diagenesis of the late Dinantian Derbyshire—East
Midland carbonate shelf, central England
Peter Vrolijk and Simon M. F.. Sheppard. Syntectonic carbonate veins from the Barbados accretionary
prism (ODP leg 110): record of palaeohydrology
Szczepan J. Porebski, Dieter Meischner and Krzysztof Gérlich. Quaternary mud turbidites from the
South Shetland Trench (West Antarctica): recognition and implications for turbidine facies
modelling
George C. Anastasakis and David J. W. Piper. The character of seismo-turbidites in the S-1 sapropel,
Zakinthos and Strofadhes basins, Greece
Gary J. Brierley. Floodplain sedimentology of the Squamish River, British Columbia: relevance of
element analysis
Gary Kocurek, KarenG. Havholm, Max Deynoux and Ronald C. Blakey. Amalgamated accumulations
resulting from climatic and eustatic changes, Akchar Erg, Mauritania
Forthcoming papers
NUMBER 5
Shane M. Pelechaty, Noel P. James, Charles Kerans and John P. Grotzinger. A middle Proterozoic
palaeokarst unconformity and associated sedimentary rocks, Elu Basin, northwest Canada
Robert Riding, José M. Martin and Juan Carlos Braga. Coral-stromatolite reef framework, Upper
Miocene, Almeria, Spain
Julian C. Baker. Diagenesis and reservoir quality of the Aldebaran Sandstone, Denison Trough,
east-central Queensland, Australia
R. S. J. Sparks, S. N. Carey and H. Sigurdsson. Sedimentation from gravity currents generated by
turbulent plumes
Guogiu Gao and Lynton S. Land. Nodular chert from the Arbuckle Group, Slick Hills, SW
Oklahoma: a combined field, petrographic and isotopic study
Evan K. Franseen and Carol Mankiewicz. Depositional sequences and correlation of middle(?) to late
Miocene carbonate complexes, Las Negras and Nijar areas, southeastern Spain
Mark Wilkinson. The concretions of the Bearreraig Sandstone Formation: geometry and
geochemistry
Indranil Banerjee and Susan M. Kidwell. Significance of molluscan shell beds in sequence
stratigraphy: an example from the Lower Cretaceous Manville Group of Canada
Paul M. Myrow and Richard N. Hiscott. Shallow-water gravity-flow deposits, Chapel Island
Formation, southeast Newfoundland, Canada
Book reviews
Forthcoming papers
NUMBER 6
Jianjun Zeng, Donald R. Lowe, David B. Prior, William J. Wiseman, Jr and Brian D. Bornhold. Flow
properties of turbidity currents in Bute Inlet, British Columbia
Simon P. Todd and David J. Went. Lateral migration of sand-bed rivers: examples from the
Devonian Glashabeg Formation, SW Ireland and the Cambrian Alderney Sandstone Formation,
Channel Islands
Richard E. Ll. Collier and Jill Thompson. Transverse and linear dunes in an Upper Pleistocene
marine sequence, Corinth Basin, Greece
Christoph Spotl and Stephen J. Burns. Formation of '8O-depleted dolomite within a marine evaporitic
sequence, Triassic Reichenhall Formation, Austria
J. J. G. Reijmer, W. G. H. Z. Ten Kate, A. Sprenger and W. Schlager. Calciturbidite composition
related to exposure and flooding of a carbonate platform (Triassic, Eastern Alps)
Lucio Lirer and Anna Vinci. Grain-size distributions of pyroclastic deposits
Daniela Fontana. Detrital carbonate grains as provenance indicators in the Upper Cretaceous
Pietraforte Formation (northern Apennines)
Keith B. Miller. An undulatory discontinuity surface on a gently inclined muddy ramp: possible
evidence of secondary helical flow from the geological record
Mark Quine and Dan Bosence. Stratal geometries, facies and sea-floor erosion in Upper Cretaceous
Chalk, Normandy, France
Bartholomew Nagy, Lois Anne Nagy, Mark J. Rigali, William D. Jones, David H. Krinsley and Norval
A. Sinclair. Rock varnish in the Sonoran Desert: microbiologically mediated accumulation of
manganiferous sediments
DISCUSSION/REPLY
1173 Peter D. Lewis, Robert I. Thompson, James W. Haggart and Catherine J. Hickson. Sedimentology and
tectonic implications of Cretaceous fan-delta conglomerates, Queen Charlotte Islands, Canada
1179 Roger Higgs. (Reply)
1183 Book reviews
1187 Forthcoming papers
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