Cementation scenarios for New Zealand Cenozoic nontropical limestones
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Export citationHood, S.D. & Nelson, C.S. (1996). Cementation scenarios for New Zealand Cenozoic nontropical limestones. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 39, 109-122.
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Abstract
Cenozoic limestones are widely distributed in New Zealand, especially in the Oligocene-earliest Miocene in both islands, and the Pliocene-Pleistocene in North Island. A spectrum of limestone types exists, but all are skeletal-dominated (>70%), with usually <20% interparticle cement-matrix and <10% siliciclasts, and they have facies attributes typical of nontropical carbonates. The range of diagenetic features identified within the limestones is the basis for assigning them to a small number of “end-member” cementation classes that are inferred to be associated with four, broad, diagenetic settings.
Date
1996Type
Publisher
The Royal Society of New Zealand
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This article has been published in the journal: New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. © 1996 The Royal Society of New Zealand.