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What are the three main types of carbonate minerals?

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Calcite CaCO3
Aragonite CaCO3
Dolomite CaMg(CO3)2

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What are common substitutes for carbonate minerals?

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Mg, Fe, Sr commonly substitute into crystal lattices

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What is the structure of dolomite?

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Alternating layers of calcite CaCO3 and magnesite MgCO3
Rhombohedral

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What are the key concepts of modern carbonates?

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Mostly primary meta-stable marine minerals
Aragonite
High Mg Calcite

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What are the key concepts of ancient carbonates?

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Mostly secondary minerals
Dolomite CaMg(CO3)2
Low Mg Calcite

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What is the composition of seawater?

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Water
NaCl
Sulphate
Magnesium
Bicarbonate
Calcium
Potassium

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What precipitates first out of seawater?

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Water
Calcite
Gypsum
Halite
K and Mg salts

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What is biologically induced mineralisation?

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Metabolic byproducts of algae and microbes interact with seawater to produce supersaturated conditions that promote precipitation

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What is biologically controlled mineralisation?

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CaCO3 locked in skeletons of animals and plants that directly control precipitation
(Aragonite - gastropods + corals)
(High Mg calcite - benthic forams)
(Low Mg calcite - brachs)

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What is the modern reef window?

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Salinity 25-35%
Temperature 25-29
Within the photic zone
Siliciclastic input is low

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Why are there no barrier reefs in India?

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Abundant clastic input from erosion of Himalayas

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12
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What is pelagic and benthic?

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Pelagic - open sea/ surface
Benthic - seafloor

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What are the types of transport for the carbonate factory?

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Shoreward transport
Basinward transport
Calcareous pelagic rain

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14
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Where is carbonate mainly produced?

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90% from biological origins
Around equator - production varies with species abundance, related to latitude

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15
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What is the reaction to make carbonate ions?

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CO2 (g) dissolves in water to form CO2 (aq)
CO2 (g) <-> CO2 (aq)

CO2 is hydrated to make carbonic acid
CO2 (aq) + H2O <-> H2CO3

From here, carbonic acid can form bicarbonate ion
HCO- 3

Or carbonate ion
CO 2- 3

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16
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What happens to mineralisation as pH decreases?

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CO2 becomes H2CO3 carbonic acid, meaning there is less carbonate available for mineralisation, and therefore mineralisation decreases

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What is the chemical formula for carbonate?

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CO2- 3

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18
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What is the relationship between algae and coral?

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Symbiosis
Algae photosynthesises, producing sugars and O2
Corals use sugars to build CaCO3 skeleton

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What is the average coral growth rate?

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5-10mm/year

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What are two types of coral?

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Framework Builders ie monastrea
Branching Corals ie stag horn

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What are possible reasons for aragonite needles on green algae?

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Structure support against tides
Protection against predators

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What are reefs?

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Biologically constructed reliefs which grow up from the sea floor

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What are the three types of reef?

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Barrier
Fringing
Patch

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What is the characteristic of a barrier reef?

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Forms offshore on the shelf and protects a lagoon behind them

Ie gently slope then /-\

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What are the characteristics of a fringing reef?

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Builds at the coastline

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What are the characteristics of a patch reef/atoll?

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Isolated offshore, ie on a seamount

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What are the three environments of a reef setting?

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Off reef open shelf
Reef core
Back reef lagoon

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What are the four constitutes of the reef core?

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Dish, branching, Masai e, reef crest

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29
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What causes bleached corals?

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Low pH causes algae to leave, and the corals cannot build their skeletons without the symbiosis

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30
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Where are carbonate factories found?

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Warm water protozoan systems:
- reefs
- ooid sand shoals
- open seafloor
- lagoons

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What are the characteristics of a rimmed platform?

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Highly differentiated facies

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32
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What direction is sediment swept in a carbonate system?

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Swept landward

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33
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What are the different types of rimmed platforms?

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Shoal rimmed
Continuous coral reef i.e. Belize
Segmented coral reef with tidal channels i.e. Exuma Island Chain, Bahamas

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34
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Give an example of an ooid shoal complex

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Tongue of the ocean, Bahamas

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What is the composition of Ooids?

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Spherical particles of CaCO3
Smaller than 2mm in diameter
Nucleus ie sand grain, surrounded by concentric lamallae

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What does a thin dark lamallae in ooids mean?

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Organic matter

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37
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What are possible ooid origins?

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Algal induced
Inorganic ppt
Mechanical aggregate

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38
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What are the three species of algae that grow aragonite needles?

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Halimedia
Penicillus
Udotea

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39
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What aids the generation of carbonate grains?

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Bioerosion by different macro and micro invertebrates, microbes and fish that break down carbonate substrates
Echinoids, worms, sponges, byrozoans, fish

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What are the two types of non skeletal grains?

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Peloids
Ooids

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41
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What are peloids?

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Fecal pellets, non skeletal grains

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What are the characteristics of peloids?

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Spherical, elliptical or angular grains
Micritic composition
No internal structure
Feacal in origin i.e. from gastropods, crustaceans, polychaetes
Rich in organic matter

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What are the lithologies of lagoons/subtidal facies?

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Wackstone and packstones with bioturbation

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What is the peritidal zone?

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Zone extending from above the level of the highest tide to below that exposed at the lowest tide, and thus somewhat wider than the intertidal zone

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What are subtidal, intertidal, supratidal zones?

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Subtidal - below low tide
Intertidal - below high tide
Supratidal - above high tide/below storm driven high tide

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46
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What is the importance of Andros Island, the Bahamas?

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Producing carbonate since Triassic
6km in thickness
1000’s km2

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47
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What are the characteristics of humid tidal flat sub environments?

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Supratidal marsh
Pond and channel belt - tidal channels, intertidal flat
Subtidal marine

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48
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Give an example of a tidal flat sub environment

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Triple goose creek, bahamas

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49
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What is the intertidal zone?

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Between normal low and high tide levels
Complex topography featuring tidal channels, brackish or saline ponds

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50
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What is the subtidal zone?

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Permanently submerged
Low energy lagoon, high energy shoals
May be exposed during neap tides

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51
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What are intertidal facies?

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Sediment deposited between normal high tide and normal low tide
Exposed twice a day

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52
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What is the lithologies of intertidal facies?

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Burrowed to laminated mudstones to wackstones
Algal bound stones with algal heads
Thin cross bedded grain stones
Rare storm deposits

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What sedimentary structures are found in supratidal facies?

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Mud cracks, fine laminations, algal mats and domes, fenestrae structures, desiccation cracks
Fuggy texture
Plant , animal and insect burrows
Intraclasts and dolomite crusts

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54
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Give an example of arid tidal flats

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Trucial coast, united arab emirates

55
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What causes teepee structure?

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Salt precipitation

56
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What are allochem textures influenced by?

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Given environmental and time controls, influenced by wave energy

57
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Name the progression of allochem textures in order of increasing grain size and decreased mud.

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Mudstone, wackstone, packstone, grainstone, boundstone
Crystalline

58
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Where are clastic sediments found?

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Not climatically constrained
Both terrestrial and marine
Unconsolidated in the depositional environment

59
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Where are carbonate sediments found?

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Shallow, warm water environments
Mostly marine
Cemented to seafloor

60
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What does grain size and mud indicate in clastic sediments?

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Grain size reflects hydraulic energy of the environment
Mud indicates settling from suspension

61
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What does grain size and mud indicate in carbonate sediments?

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Grain size reflects the size of skeletons and precipitated grains
Mud commonly indicates prolific growth of organisms that produce tiny crystals

62
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What are environmental changes induced by for clastic sediments?

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Induced by widespread changes in hydraulic regime

63
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What are environmental changes induced by for carbonate sediments?

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Induced by localised buildup of carbonate, without change in hydraulic regime

64
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What is the energy of an open unrimmed platform?

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High energy conditions prevail across the shallows

65
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How do Ooids form?

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Continuous wave agitation rolls the grain, accumulating CaCO3 around nucleus in even coats, forming even coats of concentric laminae in a cross section

66
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What are the characteristics of lagoonal/subtidal facies?

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Protected from waves so lower energy
Lots of mud
Less biologically diverse

67
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What are the characteristics of tidal channels?

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Fixed ie dont migrate much
Limited sediment transport

68
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Where are cold water corals found?

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Temperature 4-12 degrees C
Shallow waters (50-1000metres) at high latitudes
Deep water (<4000m) beneath warm water masses

69
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What influences the placement of deep water carbonates?

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Ocean gyres, especially the Gulf Stream

70
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What species are present in deep water reefs?

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Bryozoan
Crinoid
Gastropods

71
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What corals are common in deep water reefs
?

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Framework corals
Lophelia pertusa
Madrepora oculata

72
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What is the name of corals that lack symbiotic dinoflagellates?

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Azooxanthellate corals

73
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How do framework corals provide a structural habitat for other species?

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Feed from suspended sediments, dissolved organic matter, bacteria, protozoans, and (zoo)(phyto)plankton

74
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How do corals develop?

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As a coral grows polyps in older portions die, and the skeleton becomes increasingly vulnerable to bioeroders and mechanical breakage

75
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Name two solitary cold water corals

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Desmophyllum cristagalli
Caryophyllia sp

76
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What is the structure of reef mounds?

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Flanking sediments
Cap of encrusting biota
Muddy Core with small invertebrate skeletons
Basal lime grainstone to wackestone pile

77
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What kind of coral communities do you find in cold water?

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Stony corals - scleractinia
Soft corals - octocorallia, gorgonian sea fans
Black corals - antipatharia
Hydrocorals - stylasteridae

78
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What is porcupine mound?

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Up to 300m high mounds in the Irish margin, colonising 2.5 Ma Miocene deposits

79
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What are the five stages of the biogenic reef crest cycle?

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Early interglacial
Interglacial
Interglacial
Glacial
New interglacial

80
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How do we know there has been continuous cold water coral growth over the last 50,000years?

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Uranium.thorium dating

81
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Where are heterotroph reefs found?

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Not constrained by light therefore can grow into deeper water than mixotroph counterparts

82
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What threats are present to cold water corals?

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Trawling for fish

83
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What is the characteristic of carbonate slop sedimentation?

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Long periods of boredom alternating with short periods of terror

84
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What is a olistolith?

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Sedimentary deposit of large homogenous sediment

85
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What does perennial mean?

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Permanently filled

86
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What does ephemeral mean?

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Periodically dry

87
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What kind of lacustrine settings are there?

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Perennial or ephemeral lakes

88
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How do lacustrine settings differ from marine settings?

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Lack tidal activity
Closed systems with smaller volumes of water and sediment
Relatively small size

89
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What does the relatively small size of lakes mean?

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Water chemistry responds more rapidly to changes in local conditions and climate

90
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What is the littoral zone?

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Encompasses shallow water around a lake margin.
Is often characterised by shallow water ‘bench’ or ‘terrace’

91
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What is the profundal zone?

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Deep, aphotic region of the lake

92
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What is the sublittoral zone?

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The transition region between littoral zone and deeper profundal zone

93
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What is the pelagic zone?

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The water column above deep, aphotic region of the lake

94
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How does stratification develop in modern lakes?

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Due to differential radiative heating

95
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What divides the warm water layer from the underlying cool water layer?

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The thermocline

96
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What happens to water stratification during winter months?

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Different layers mix following cooling and action of wind-induced currents
Once water in the epilimnion reaches four degrees it sinks

97
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When does meromixis develop?

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When surface waters are consistently less dense than the deep waters

98
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What are the controls on lake sedimentation?

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Abiogenic precipitation
Biologically induced precipitation
Biologically controlled precipitation
Extrinsic factors
Intrinsic factors

99
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What abiogenic precipitates are there
?

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Aragonite, calcite, magnesite, hydromagnesite and dolomite

100
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What causes abiogenic precipitates?

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Waters become supersaturated due to evaporation/cooling/CO2 degassing

101
Q

What biological communities control lake sedimentation?

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Charophytes
Ostracod
Mollusks
Insects
Diatoms

102
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What are the extrinsic factors controls on lake sedimentation?

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Climate - not restricted by climatic zone, controls rainfall, water balance, biogenic activity
Tectonics

103
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What are the intrinsic factors that control lake sedimentation?

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Hydrology - controls flux of sediment
Lake stratification/mixing
Sediment sources

104
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How does lake stratification and mixing affect lakes?

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Controlled by heating and cooling of surface waters, which promotes carbonate formation/biological activity
Recycling on nutrient elements that stimulates planktonic activity
Renewed oxygenation of bottom waves, leading to0 mineral precipitation and promote bioturbation

105
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What are types of lacustrine deposits?

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Shoreline facies
Lake centre/pelagic facies

106
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What is a type of shoreline facies?

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Marginal bench

107
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What carbonate sediments do you find on marginal benches
?

A

Peloids
Oncoids
Stromatolites

108
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What are microbialites ?

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Limestones and dolomites formed by microbial activity that forms a biofilm, leading to calcite dolomite precipitation through extracting CO2 from water
Stromatolites
Thrombolites

109
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What is the difference between stromatolites and thrombolites?

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Stromatolites are laminated
Thrombolites are clotted

110
Q

How are active springs defined?

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Based on the highest temperature measured at the spring vent

111
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What temperature are cool springs?

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<20 degC

112
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What are the temperature classifications of thermal springs?

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Thermal >20 degrees
Warm 20-40 degrees
Mesothermal 40-75 degrees
Hyperthermal >75 degrees

113
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What is tufa, where is it formed, and composition?

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Tufa= limestone formed in freshwater settings ie streams, lakes, springs, marshes
Formed at ambient temperatures, in water derived from rain/surface runoff/near surface ground water from limestone areas
Composed of calcite

114
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What is travertine and where is it formed?

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Calcareous deposits precipitated from thermal springs
Water may be derived from from the deep subsurface
Minerals such as silica , aragonite and stevensite may be present

115
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What is crystal morphology related to?

A

CaCO3 supersaturation

116
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What is barrage tufa formed of?

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Vaucheria- green algae that forms overhangs and tongues a

117
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Give six examples of tufa?

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Vaucheria tufa - green algae - tongues, dams, pools
Moss tufa - springs
Vacuolar tufa - coated twigs, leaves, many holes
Dark ‘heavy’ rough nodular / pustular and black tufa
Laminated stromatolitic tufa
Oncoidal tufa
Tufa with chironomids

118
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How does tufa form?

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Chemical precipitation of calcite through CO2 degassing and biochemical precipitation through photosynthetic activities of Cyanobacteria, mosses, bryophytes, green algae and diatoms
Microbes and EPS attract Ca2+ ions and creating a micro environment for calcite precipitation

119
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Give examples of tufa formation

A

Gordale, York’s, England

120
Q

Give an example of a travertine formation

A

Pamukkale, turkey
Yellowstone

121
Q

Give an example of tufa mounds

A

Mono lake California
Pyramid lake Nevada

122
Q

Give an example of barrage tufa

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Skriadin and plitvice, Croatia

123
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What are important food sources for deep sea corals?

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Resuspended material, bacteria and protozoans
Dissolved inorganic matter
Zooplankton and phytoplankton

124
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What are important food sources for deep sea corals?

A

Resuspended material, bacteria and protozoans
Dissolved inorganic matter
Zooplankton and phytoplankton

125
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What is an olistolith?

A

A large clast within slope deposits

126
Q

True or false:
HMC is the dominant carbonate throughout the rock record

A

False

127
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What do the horizontal growth bands in deep sea corals most likely represent?

A

Seasonal delivery of nutrients

128
Q

What facies are most characteristic of arid carbonated tidal flat settings?

A

Microbialaminate
Teepee structures
Nodular anhydride

129
Q

What role does Udotea play within carbonate settings?

A

Aragonite producing codiacean algae

130
Q

True or false:
Carbonate sediment production is lowest in the shallowest, inner most areas of a platform>

A

True

131
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True or false:
HMC is the dominant carbonate throughout the rock record

A

False

132
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What is the rate of sediment production on Great Bahamas bank margins?

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4 kg/m2/yr

133
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In what carbonate setting is scytonema found?

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Algal marsh
Peritidal zone

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