Regional Sedimentation along the Trucial Coast, SE Persian Gulf

The Triassic Chitistone Limestone, Wrangell Mountains, Alaska: stressing detailed descriptions of sabkha facies and other rocks in lower parts of the Chitistone and their relations to Kennecott-type copper deposits

“…The lower 100 to 120 m of the Chitistone Limestone exposed from Donoho Peak to the Nizina River outcrops fits in Wilson's (1975, p. 297 (Evans et al, 1964;Purser and Evans, 1973). Wood and Wolfe (1969) could be classified as microspars (Folk, 1965).…”

“…The dolomite-and calcite-filled vugs are interpreted as pseudomorphs after anhydrite. Kinsman (1966Kinsman ( , 1969, Kinsman and Park (1976), Shearman and Fuller (1969), Fuller and Porter (1969), Purser and Evans (1973), (1) The development of a coastal sabkha carbonate offlap facies in the Chitistone Limestone at a stratigraphic level of some 90-120 m above the Nikolai Greenstone. Framework sediment of the sabkha sediments was probably calcium carbonate, although no definitive evidence is preserved.…”

Cross sections of Lower Ordovician carbonate depositional lithofacies and Mississippi Valley-type zinc-and iron-sulfide mineralization in the Caufield district, east-central part of Harrison 1 degree by 2 degrees Quadrangle, Arkansas and Missouri

“…These are (1) the Persian Gulf (Purser and Evans, 1973); (2) Shark Bay, Australia Logan and others, 1974); (3) Andros Island in the Bahamas (Hardie, 1977); and (4) Florida Bay (Enos and Perkins, 1979). At each of these places, the upward transition from pelloidal, ooidal, or skeletal grainstone into hemispheroidal boundstone and then into planar boundstone occurs over the range from subtidal to the base of the supratidal environment.…”

Stratigraphy of the Mississippian System, south-central Colorado and north-central New Mexico

“…6) for the Leadville Limestone, the Arroyo Penasco Group, and the Kelly Limestone were derived in part from the carbonate fades models developed by Mamet (1972) and Wilson (1975). Studies of the lower part of the Leadville Limestone at Glenwood Springs and in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Colorado and of the Espiritu Santo Formation of New Mexico (Armstrong, 1967;Ulmer and Laury, 1984) indicate that parts of these formations were deposited in lagoonal to supratidal environments similar to those of the present-day Persian Gulf (Evans and others, 1973;Purser and Evans, 1973;Shinn, 1973;Hardie and Garrett, 1977). The upper part of the Glenwood Springs section was deposited in a shoaling-water ooid-bank environment.…”