Morphology and sedimentology of Halimeda bioherms from the eastern Java Sea (Indonesia)

Roberts, Harry H.; Aharon, Paul; Phipps, C V G

doi:10.1007/bf00302012

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“…Abundant Halimeda spp. in modern deeper water mounds (−20 to −140 m; Davies and Marshall 1985;Paul and van Alstyne 1988;Roberts et al 1988;Freile et al 1995), Anthracoporella spectabilis mounds in the Lower Pseudoschwagerina Limestone (Upper Carboniferous, Austria;Samankassou 1997;Krainer et al 2003) and phylloid algal mounds (Soreghan and Giles 1999;Samankassou and West 2002;Wahlman 2002 and references therein) appear to be analogous examples of substrate monopolization. The high density of Halimeda spp.…”

Section: Seaward Slopementioning

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Biologic response to environmental stress in tropical reefs: Lessons from modern Polynesian coralgal atolls and Middle Permian sponge and Shamovella-microbe reefs (Capitan Limestone USA)

Fagerstrom

Weidlich

2005

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Despite prejudices that comparisons of paleoecological patterns in modern and fossil reef communities are of doubtful validity, we compare the biologic response of living coralgal reefs in French Polynesia to environmental stress with an exceptionally well exposed Middle Permian sponge reef and Shamovella-microbial reef of the Capitan Limestone in New Mexico. In the western Tuamotu Archipelago, reef margins are characterized by depth-related changes of biodiversity. The subtidal basic reefbuilding community contains the highest diversity (23 coral and 6 calcareous algal species). With decreasing water depth and increasing environmental stress, diversity reaches a minimum of five taxa on the reef flat. The Capitan consists of two reef stages. Reefbuilders of the lowermost exposed part of Stage 1 formed a cement-rich sponge reef with 42 taxa (28 sponge species). Decreasing water depth along the reef face is accompanied by loss of five taxa, variations in the gross morphology of sponges and changes in framework architecture. Stage 2, dominated by Shamovella obscura, one bryozoan species and microbes, is sandwiched between two unconformities suggesting much shallower water and higher environmental stress. Despite differences in shelf profile and taxonomy, both the modern and Permian reefbuilders respond to increasing environmental stress with diversity impoverishment and dominance of binders.

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Biologic response to environmental stress in tropical reefs: Lessons from modern Polynesian coralgal atolls and Middle Permian sponge and Shamovella-microbe reefs (Capitan Limestone USA)

Fagerstrom

Weidlich

2005

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“…Halimeda can accumulate as significant deposits in shallow lagoons and on deeper shelves e.g., Halimeda banks in the Great Barrier Reef, east Java Sea and Nicaraguan Rise (Hine et al, 1988;Marshall and Davies, 1988;Roberts et al, 1988). Recent Pisces submersible and RCV-150 ROV studies on the flanks of Oahu, Maui and Molokai between À 65 and À 120 m revealed extensive modern monospecific Halimeda meadows composed of large lobed H. distorta plants forming bush-like clumps growing on hard substrates (Fig.…”

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Drowned coralline algal dominated deposits off Lanai, Hawaii; carbonate accretion and vertical tectonics over the last 30 ka

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“…Halimeda bioherms in the northern lagoon of the Great Barrier Reef (Davies and Marshall 1985), along the western banks of the Nicaraguan Rise in the western Caribbean (Hine et al 1987), and in the Makassar Straits of Indonesia (Roberts et al 1988) provide examples of choralgal sedimentation under mesotrophic conditions. Characteristics that all three locations share include: (1) geographic settings in warm, tropical waters; (2) relatively clear surface waters that permit sufficient light to penetrate to 30-60 m to support prolific Halimeda photosynthesis and growth; (3) a physical oceanographic mechanism that periodically forces uppermost nutricline waters over the substratum where the Halimeda are growing; and (4) temperatures in uppermost nutricline waters that are only a degree or two cooler than surface waters, as maintenance of relatively warm temperatures over the banks is crucial to both rapid algal growth rates and geochemical factors that promote aragonite precipitation by photosynthetic mechanisms (Hallock 2001).…”

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Carbonate systems along nutrient and temperature gradients: some sedimentological and geochemical constraints

Mutti

Hallock

2003

International Journal of Earth Sciences

267

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Research over the past several decades has clearly demonstrated that changes in the ocean environment have had major impacts on carbonate systems. Changes in climate, ocean circulation and seafloor spreading rates have influenced temperature and seawater chemistry, including carbonate saturation state and nutrient availability, and thereby have determined boundary conditions for the biota that form carbonate platforms. In turn, the biota determine accumulation rates and facies zonations, thus controlling platform geometry and facies dynamics. In the first section of this paper, we examine how nutrient availability influences carbonate facies associations. We first discuss the role of temperature and nutrient gradients in the modern ocean and their influence on biotic associations. Then we discuss how carbonate sedimentation can be characterized along nutrient gradients. In the second section, we review proxies currently used to reconstruct paleoproductivity in open ocean environments and discuss their applicability to neritic carbonate systems. We highlight the variety of existing proxies and their limitations, and suggest that multiple lines of evidence are needed for valid interpretations. Our short review discusses sedimentological, biogenic, and geochemical proxies that can be used to reconstruct past nutrient fluxes and to constrain paleoceanographic controls over the distribution of carbonate associations. However, it also reveals that more data and case studies are needed that integrate shallow and deep water carbonate sequences and elucidate the links between temperature vs. nutrient supplies changes and facies in ancient carbonate sequences.

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Morphology and sedimentology of Halimeda bioherms from the eastern Java Sea (Indonesia)

Cited by 73 publications

References 11 publications

Biologic response to environmental stress in tropical reefs: Lessons from modern Polynesian coralgal atolls and Middle Permian sponge and Shamovella-microbe reefs (Capitan Limestone USA)

Biologic response to environmental stress in tropical reefs: Lessons from modern Polynesian coralgal atolls and Middle Permian sponge and Shamovella-microbe reefs (Capitan Limestone USA)

Drowned coralline algal dominated deposits off Lanai, Hawaii; carbonate accretion and vertical tectonics over the last 30 ka

Carbonate systems along nutrient and temperature gradients: some sedimentological and geochemical constraints

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