What Causes Carbonates to Form “Shrubby” Morphologies? An Anthropocene Limestone Case Study

The South Atlantic Aptian “Pre-Salt” shrubby carbonate successions offshore Brazil and Angola are of major interest due to their potential hydrocarbon accumulations. Although the general sedimentology of these deposits is widely recognized to be within saline, alkaline lakes in rift volcanic setting...

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Main Authors: Laura Bastianini, Mike Rogerson, Ramon Mercedes-Martín, Timothy J. Prior, Edgley A. Cesar, William M. Mayes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2019.00236/full